Moving from Pagemaker to Adobe InDesign

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to the responses given earlier, if you need help learning InDesign, please check out Adobe InDesign help articles and video tutorials on https://helpx.adobe.com/support/indesign.html

Articles on https://indesignsecrets.com/ can be a huge help as well. Hope these help you.

Regards,

Ashutosh

Is there much difference between the two programmes and would I pick up In Design fairly quickly?

If you have strong PageMaker skills then yes, you will pick up InDesign fairly quickly. I find that when my students arrive in class with a background in PageMaker, Quark, Ventura or even Publisher, they already understand the design workflow and just need to figure out where the commands they rely on live. That's not to say that you won't need to put in the work—InDesign is significantly more powerful than PageMaker—so set aside time for a class, or to watch videos, or to work through a book.

~Barb

You could use something like PDF to InDesign converter to get you most of your content and layout. 

But I'd recommend starting from scratch. Happy to help with your layout and talking you through it. 

There is a huge difference between the two and you're going to be in for a rude awakening when you find you can't open any of your old PM files. Adobe removed that capability from ID after CS6 so if you need to do those conversions, you'll need to find someone with an old version installed to do it for you.

Finally, InDesign system requirements far exceed those of PM. I assume you're on Windows since you'd need a very ancient Mac to run it on. Even on Windows, Win 7 was a crapshoot with PM.