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Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker
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Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker

His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.

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Mar 21 at 4:14pmWeb