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Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) is a desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh. [1] The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface , PageMaker publishing software, and the Apple LaserWriter laser printer marked the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution.
Aldus Corporation was an American software company best known for its pioneering desktop publishing software. PageMaker, the company's most well-known product, ushered in the modern era of desktop computers such as the Macintosh seeing widespread use in the publishing industry. [1]
The current version is PageMaker 7.0, released July 9, 2001, though updates have been released for the two supported platforms since. If updates have been released since, then how is it the current version? --Galaxiaad 15:26, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC) It's been updated from 7.0 to 7.0.1 and 7.0.1a.
Brainerd in 1986. Paul Brainerd (born 1947) is an American businessman, computer programmer and philanthropist. In 1984, he co-founded the Aldus Corporation, which released Pagemaker, the first consumer-use desktop publishing software.
Its key feature advantage over the free Adobe Acrobat Reader was the ability to create reliable PDF files from Microsoft Office applications. [7] Adobe Design Collection was an early software suite from Adobe Systems, first released on July 30, 1999. It included applications such as Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
By 1998, PageMaker had lost much of the professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress version 3.3, released in 1992, and version 4.0, released in 1996. In 1999, Quark announced its offer to buy Adobe [3] and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid problems under United States antitrust law. Adobe declined Quark ...
[7] Seattle's Aldus Corporation acquired a licensing agreement with Altsys Corporation to release FreeHand along with their flagship product, Pagemaker, and Aldus FreeHand 1.0 was released in 1988. [7] FreeHand's product name used intercaps; the F and H were capitalized.
[8] [9] This momentum was kept up with the release that July of PageMaker software from Aldus, which rapidly became the standard software application for desktop publishing. [10] With its advanced layout features, PageMaker immediately relegated word processors like Microsoft Word to the composition and editing of purely textual documents. [11]