Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh While resurrecting a 40-year old defunct magazine, I accidentally-on-purpose resurrect a 40-year old software rivalry.

🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️

It wasn't the first #desktoppublishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild #OMNI Magazine and examine how the publishing revolution influenced the public sector.

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PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet Paul Brainerd, who coined the term "desktop publishing" and built Aldus Corporation's PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge…

Fresh out of college, even us #bookworms thought we'd be entrepreneurs ! RIP, sir.

#PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet
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Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker

RIP Paul Brainerd, whose #PageMaker was one of the four or five most influential software products of the personal computer revolution. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/t...

Paul Brainerd, le père de PageMaker, s'est éteint C’est une bien triste nouvelle pour l’histoire de l’informatique : Paul Brainerd, le créateur de PageMaker, est décédé dimanche dernier à l’âge de 78 ans. Pour tous ceux qui ont connu les premières he...

Une autre époque ! #Brainerd #PageMaker #Aldus
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... término "desktop publishing". Posteriormente, Adobe adquirió Aldus y PageMaker, pero eventualmente fue reemplazado por InDesign.

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...en la industria durante los 80s. Tuvo versiones para Macintosh y Windows, adaptándose a diferentes plataformas. Luego vino QuarkXPress que le quitó el trono en los 90s.

Aldus fue fundada por Paul Brainerd, quien acuñó el...

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...Macintosh, permitió a usuarios combinar texto y gráficos con facilidad, creando materiales impresos como folletos, revistas y más, con calidad profesional.

PageMaker tuvo un gran éxito, y se convirtió en un estándar de facto...

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El 15 de julio de 1985 sale a la venta PageMaker, un software pionero en el campo de la autoedición (desktop publishing) que revolucionó la forma en que se diseñaban y producían publicaciones.

Lanzado por Aldus en 1985 para...

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I also used #PaintShop but did not earn any money from it. The first time I got paid for using a computer was when I set up spreadsheets in #SuperCalc. With #PageMaker, I earned my first real money, but it was a one-time gig. #Clipper was the first software package I used to get a regular paycheck.

If someone needed some careful hand work to make an illo of a test tube for some random New Yorker article, or to hand-layout a few pages of a magazine in some particular style you were the guy. Then #Photoshop and #Pagemaker showed up.