Adobe PageMill 3.0 on Web's horizon

MacWeek, Feb 9, 1998 by Andrea Dudrow

Adobe Systems Inc. released a beta version of PageMill 3.0 for Windows this week and said it expects to release the Mac version early this summer.

PageMill 3.0 will have more-integrated site management capabilities than Version 2.0, Adobe said. SiteMill, which was previously sold as a separate site management tool, has been folded into the new version of PageMill. Adobe said this will allow Web administrators to update elements such as graphics, links, animations and text across an entire Web site by dragging and dropping.

The company also said Version 3.0 will manage external Web files more effectively, offer enhanced copy and paste features, and sport sitewide spell checking.

Also new in Version 3.0 will be more-advanced page-layout capabilities, which Adobe said will let users easily create elements such as borderless frames by dragging the mouse across a Web page.

Adobe said PageMill 3.0 will have enhanced support for Java and other multimedia elements. It will let users embed, modify and preview Java applets and animated GIFs, Adobe said.

In addition, the CD-ROM version of PageMill 3.0 will include a library of graphics, Java applets, animations and Web page templates, the company said.

Roger Spreen, director of engineering for PageMill, said the forthcoming Mac version will take advantage of features in Mac OS 8, and the upgrade's other features will mirror those in the Windows version.

Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., is at (408) 536-6000 or (800) 822-4451; fax (408) 537-6000; http://www.adobe.com.