Mastodawn

Paul Brainerd, the man who invented PageMaker and brought publishing to the masses, has died. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/ #pagemaker #desktoppublishing

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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Didier Bonet Feb 20

Une autre époque ! #Brainerd #PageMaker #Aldus
https://www.macg.co/logiciels/2026/02/paul-brainerd-le-pere-de-pagemaker-sest-eteint-306909

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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MacGeneration Feb 20

Paul Brainerd, le père de PageMaker, s'est éteint http://dlvr.it/TR3kPs #PaulBrainerd #PageMaker

Paul Brainerd, le père de PageMaker, s'est éteint

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Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 📚Dec 27

Ich gehöre noch zur #PageMaker-Generation und habe das damals für eine verdammte NASA-Rocket-Science-Wunder-Offenbarung gehalten.

MissConstrue Oct 28

Hey #ipad buddies, #Affinity has their #Adobe competitor products on the iPad for free for a couple of days until the October 30 announcement. Download from the App Store, create an affinity account, then where the trial time button is, click it to buy and register the software for free. #phtoshop #designer #pagemaker

me·ta·phil, der Jul 23, 2025

#Scribus is a (*the*) #floss desktop-publishing #dtp software and totally underrated.

What can I say … it really grew on me. It gets the *job* done.
With a fraction of the (monetary, computational and cognitive) resources a (*the*) competitor would need. 🌱

🌐 https://www.scribus.net

#CMYK #prepress #pdf #alternativeTo #floss #libre #BuyEuropean #GraphicsDesign #mediengestaltung #typography #typesetting #pagemaking #printdesign #framemaker #indesign #pagemaker #greencomputing #opensource

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RetroComputingMX Jul 19, 2025

...en un estándar de facto 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 término "desktop publishing". Posteriormente, Adobe adquirió Aldus y PageMaker, pero eventualmente fue reemplazado por InDesign.

#retrocomputingmx #computerhistory #softwarehistory #dtp #PageMaker

RetroComputingMX Jul 19, 2025

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 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...

#retrocomputingmx #computerhistory #softwarehistory #dtp #PageMaker

europlus

Mar 14, 2025

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh callout re: PageMaker 4.2...

Does anyone with physical copies of PM4.2 and manuals/books have the 4.2 version of the Aldus PageMaker Script Language Guide?

It might solve a problem for me (and @dillera).

Thanks!

#ClassicMacs #DTP #PageMaker

CoffeeGeek Aug 29, 2024

#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