πŸͺ¨ Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh πŸ› οΈ

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

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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!

@oscarfalcon You're very welcome! If you make something cool with it, please share with the class.
@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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It's a pity they were devoured by Adobe.
@raymaccarthy Well, Brainerd said in an interview with the Museum of History and Industry in 2009 that *he* approached Adobe about a merger. He was tired and wanted out of the industry, basically. Still, since InDesign was already in the works at Aldus, maybe they could have fought on without Brainerd at the helm, but I get the feeling he really wanted a guaranteed pay day for the next phase of his life as a conservationist.
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It's probably still good for paper publishing or Fixed layout Electronic distribution but it's terrible for reflowable ebooks.
Also ghastly that it's now rental only.
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I also had Aldus photostyler on Win 3.x and for decades it had the best GUI to rotate an image to vertical or horizontal.
Later had Photoshop, PSP5, PSP7 & then The Gimp on XP, Win7 and now Linux since 2017.
I abandoned DTP SW about the time of LibreOffice 5? I don't do magazines or newspapers (since 1997) so now LibreOffice Writer for PDFs. Epub by LO Writer, extra Save As docx, Calibre to epub. Styles go 1:1 to HTML & CSS. Only have to manually edit some CSS values on images.
@stonetoolsblog that picture of John Warnock at Seybold is πŸ”₯
@storiesofapple It's pretty great, ain't it?
@stonetoolsblog Excellent article! Thank you.

@stonetoolsblog Whoa! Back in the 90s, my hustle was a classified ads app for PageMaker and QuarkXPress.

Aldus featured it at MacWorld Boston one year, and i got to meet Guy Kawasaki, who was promoting Aldus, IIRC...

@raganwald Fantastic to see those pics, thanks for sharing!