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🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️

It wasn't the first desktop publishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild the 40-year defunct #OMNI Magazine, resurrect a 40-year defunct software rivalry, and examine how the effects of the publishing revolution trickled through the public sector.

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#retrocomputing #mac #pagemaker

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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.

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oscarfalcon 7h ago

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Ha, I have an early iMac with system 9 and still runs Aldus Pagemaker (the before adobe acquisition Pagemaker).

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oscarfalcon 6h ago

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Thank you for the font, been wanting that font for ages and I thought I had it installed but alas no and then boom, gift!

Thanks!

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Stone Tools 6h ago

@oscarfalcon You're very welcome! If you make something cool with it, please share with the class.

Yes, will do!

@stonetoolsblog Hell yeah, this is tremendous. Thank you. PageMaker was the first DTP program I ever used (but geoPublish was my home because I was a hardcore Commodore head), and you captured the fever pitch on the desktop publishing revolution well. We lost something along the way though.

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Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️4h ago

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I remember using Ventura Publisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Publisher

Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh

Ventura Publisher - Wikipedia