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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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Show threadRay McCarthy5h ago
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It's a pity they were devoured by Adobe.
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@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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Show threadRay McCarthy4h ago
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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.