1. Adobe Pagemaker 7

Hi friends,

Aug 24, 2012  It is huge Difference between Adobe Photoshop & Coral Draw Adobe is manly for graphic editor both have their own good qualities. I used coreldraw heavily for those brochures, Finished artworks, those visuals that needs different color themes. CorelDraw and Adobe Pagemaker? Comparatively, which is better and easy to use graphic software in layouting, coreldraw or adobe? More questions.

I am very proficient with Photoshop CS and below. I use it to graphic and web design. I love using it.
However, I am very close to buyinig an 'Aboe Illustrator CS classroom in a book' book to learn Illustrator. My question is:
1) what advantages are there to using Illustrator for graphic/stationary/web design?
2) Will learning the tools and a way of working in Illustrator make me forget the way to use Photoshop as good as I do now. I don't want to learn something new if it affect my proficiency in Photoshop.
Just any useful thoughs would be useful as I don't want to waste money and time learning Illustrator if I don't need to. Points will be split fairly for any comment.
Thanks as always,

Adobe Pagemaker 7

Lee.