When designing brochures and documents with allot of text, it's best to start with the right applications. Two that immediately comes to mind is Adobe's InDesign and Macromedia Freehand. The power of these two apps (with regards to document layout) in comparison with say Photoshop or Fireworks is that your text layout tools are much stronger, with columns and text flowing from column to column which makes fitting a certain amount of text into limited columns a breeze.


The power of InDesign is that you can edit all graphical elements within Photoshop and have it updated within the InDesign file automatically which saves precious time. Well actually Freehand also has that function, so I guess it's a matter of choice and price in the end.


Then lets not forget QuarkXpress. Also a very strong application for layout design which is used widely. We find that many users tends to stick with a suite of products, that makes interoperability and file compatibility much easier.