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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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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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Paul McAleer

@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.