Paul Brainerd (Aldus) ist gestorben. Hier ist eine schöne Erinnerung an die Geschichte des DTP. Sonst noch jemand mit FreeHand und PageMaker gestartet? https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/ #dtp #aldus
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 Island. He was 78.

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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 heures du Macintosh, ce nom résonne comme une révolu...

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Aldus-Macromedia FreeHand Version Anthology

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aldus-macromedia-freehand-version-anthology

So this anthology was my effort at getting a complete set of all shipping US FreeHand versions in a single place. If the version was floppy-based, Disk Copy 4.2 images are included. If the version was

#macgarden #VisualArtsGraphics #Aldus #Altsys #Macromedia

Lo de #adobe es el paradigma de #silliconvalley con las compras a la competencia.
Lo haces mejor que nosotros? #temiroyteadquiero

Mitad de los 90 a mitad del 2000, a lo loco.

Tocaban todos los palos multimedia, después se centraron en su gallina de los huevos de oro (potochó).

Del 94 (con la compra d #aldus) al 2005 (con la compra de #macromedia ), necesito saber más! 😅

Pd: olé mis huevos morenos de poner en hashtag a gloriosas como #aldus y #macromedia (añado #claris va ✊🤣) en 2026 👌🤣🤣🤣

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Aldus IntelliDraw 1.x

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aldus-intellidraw-1x

A powerful yet simple drawing program.

#macgarden #visualartsgraphics #1992 #aldus

#NCP

I cut my design teeth on this.

3 months of learning traditional typesetting and layout for our high school newspaper, we got this on the only Mac SE our entire school (or anyone in the school) had. The year was 1988. The version was 3.0. We didn't use QuarkXpress. We used this. I gravitated towards it, instantly.

#pagemaker #aldus #alduspagemaker #desktoppublishing

#SwiftUI: Wonder how many people know or remember how DIFFICULT it was to implement #FloatingWindows (first seen in #Aldus #PageMaker), #palettes, and #TearOffMenus in classic #MacOS.

The #WindowManager was a bear, wasn’t it, Dylan, Jeff?

Now, just one line of code does it!

@NanoRaptor @royal

About a year later, he upgraded to Mac SEs and Aldus PageMaker. Then everything was shipped on floppy except for the photos.

Another year later and I was helping with layout and some (admittedly crude) illustration in #Aldus Freehand.