“One of the first people he hired was Laura Urban Perry, a graphic designer… [from] an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle.

“He wanted me to be sitting next to the engineers so that there was this interaction and constant communications about how this new graphical interface software should work,” Ms. Perry said in an interview. “He was just incredibly meticulous and focused on the customer, making sure the software was easy to use.”

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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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