for designers, adobe systems' announcement that their pagemaker software application will be discontinued isn't a surprise, but it does mark an end of an era.

pagemaker for years has been a staple of desktop publishers and designers since the 80's; however, adobe's in-design and my favorite, quarkxpress, have the corner on the pre-press publishing market. pagemaker had a core group of dedicated users who will have to either stay with their legacy app or switch to one of the big two.

progress being progress, sometimes things go away. this time it's pagemaker.