Comment by rbanffy
4 days ago
My impression back then was that InDesign was created to match the workflows from Quark, which were popular in magazines. PageMaker was more at home when page setting books and publications with more consistent formatting across pages.
As I recall, InDesign essentially combined the single-page design focus of Quark with the multi-page design focus of PageMaker, to create an app that did both quite well.