Adobe CS2 Standard is a great package to get. It comes with Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and InDesign CS2 software with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. It'll run you about $900. Though, if you are doing layout
only and you won't be editing any photo editing or serious graphic creation, you won't need Illustrator or Photoshop. But since InDesign is $700 by itself, you might as well spring for the extra $200. It'll save you $950 on Photoshop & Illustrator. But I don't know how involved you are in the design and what you need.
InDesign is
really powerful and nothing else is even close to it, not even Quark
. It may be more than you need.
Adobe Pagemaker works for most business documents. It'll run ya $500 with a $350 option to upgrade to InDesign if you feel like you need a bit more.
You could also always add
Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard to your current system and have instant portability for $300.
Just remember, get the right product for
your needs and the right product for the job. Photoshop is for photo editing, not layout. It's a common idiocy for people to make layouts in PS. You have very little text control and it will seriously hurt your workflow. Making changes becomes laborious and printing will be an issue.
If you want more detailed help, shoot me an email spange (at) gmail (dot) com. I'm sure we can find you something that's more suitable for your needs.