If you don’t have specialized software

If you don’t have specialized software

 
Admittedly, Photoshop CS4 just plain can’t do some things. It won’t make you
a good cup of coffee. It can’t press your trousers. It doesn’t vacuum under the
couch. It isn’t even a substitute for iTunes, Microsoft Excel, or Netscape
Navigator — it just doesn’t do those things.
However, there are a number of things for which Photoshop isn’t designed
that you can do in a pinch. If you don’t have InDesign, you can still lay out the
pages of a newsletter, magazine, or even a book, one page at a time. (With
Bridge’s Ouput panel, you can even generate a multipage PDF document from
your individual pages.) If you don’t have Dreamweaver or GoLive, you can
use Photoshop to create a Web site, one page at a time, sliced and optimized
and even with animated GIFs. You also have tools that you can use to simulate
3D in Photoshop CS4, such as Vanishing Point .
Page layout in Photoshop isn’t particularly difficult for a one-page piece or
even a trifold brochure. Photoshop has a very capable type engine, considering
the program is designed to push pixels rather than play with paragraphs.

Photoshop even shows you a sample of each typeface in the Font menu.
Choose from five sizes of preview in Photoshop’s
Preferences➪Type menu. However, you can’t link Photoshop’s type containers,
so a substantial addition or subtraction at the top of the first column
requires manually recomposing all of the following columns. After all, among
the biggest advantages of a dedicated page layout program are the continuity
(using a master page or layout) and flow from page to page. If you work with
layout regularly, use InDesign.