PageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus on Apple Macintosh. The PageMaker combination uses the Mac graphics user interface for document creation and Apple LaserWriter for output represents the starting point of what was to be the desktop publishing revolution of the late 1980s. Moved to a PC running Windows 1.0 in 1987, PageMaker helped popularize the Macintosh platform and Windows environment.
A key aspect of PageMaker's success is its original support for the Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. Adobe bought Aldus, and PageMaker, in 1994. The program remained a major force in the high-end DTP market through the early 1990s, but new features are slow to come. In the mid-1990s, he faced increasingly fierce competition from QuarkXPress on Mac, and to a lesser extent, Ventura on PC, and by the end of the decade was no longer a major force. Quark proposed to buy the product and cancel it, but instead, in 1999 Adobe released their "Quark Killer", Adobe InDesign. The last major release of PageMaker was in 2001, and customers offered InDesign licenses at a lower cost.
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Releasing history
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for the Macintosh and in December 1986 for the IBM PC.
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.2 for Macintosh was released in 1986 and added support for PostScript fonts created into LaserWriter Plus or downloaded to the memory of other output devices. PageMaker was awarded the SPA Excellence in Software Award for Best Computer Use of in 1986. In October 1986, the Pagemaker version was available for HP Vectra Hewlett-Packard computers. In 1987, Pagemaker was available on the VAXstation Digital Equipment computer.
- Aldus Pagemaker 2.0 was released in 1987. Until May 1987, the initial Windows release was bundled with the full version of Windows 1.0.3; after that date, "Windows-runtime" without any task switching capabilities included. So, users who do not have Windows can run applications from MS-DOS.
- Aldus Pagemaker 3.0 for Macintosh shipped in April 1988. PageMaker 3.0 for PC was sent in May 1988 and required Windows 2.0, which was bundled as a time version. Version 3.01 is available for OS/2 and takes extensive advantage of multithreading to improve user response.
- Aldus PageMaker 4.0 for Macintosh was released in 1990 and offers new word processing capabilities, expanded typography controls, and enhanced features to handle long documents. Version for PC available in 1991. Aldus PageMaker 5.0 was released in January 1993. Adobe PageMaker 6.0 was released in 1995, a year after Adobe Systems acquired Aldus Corporation. Adobe PageMaker 6.5 was released in 1996. Support for versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 is no longer offered through the official Adobe support system.
- Adobe PageMaker 7.0 is the final version available. It was released July 9, 2001, though updates have been released for two supported platforms since. Macintosh version only runs on Mac OS 9 or earlier version; no native support for Mac OS X, and does not run on Intel-based Macs without SheepShaver. This does not work well under Classic, and Adobe recommends that customers use an older Macintosh that can boot into Mac OS 9. The Windows version supports Windows XP, but according to Adobe, "PageMaker 7.x is not installed or run in Windows Vista. "
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End of development
PageMaker's development was marked in later years in Aldus and, in 1998, PageMaker had lost virtually the entire professional market to the relatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992 and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark declared his intention to buy exit Adobe and to release the combined PageMaker company to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe declined the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application code called "Shuksan" (then "K2"), originally started by Aldus, openly planned and positioned as "Quark killer". It was released as Adobe InDesign 1.0 in 1999.
The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as "languishing on life support". Adobe stopped all PageMaker developments in 2004 and "strongly encourages" users to migrate to InDesign, originally via the "InDesign PageMaker Edition" and "PageMaker Plug-in" versions, adding a combined dataletter, bullet and PageMaker numbering feature to InDesign, and provides a PageMaker-oriented help topic, Myriad Pro fonts, and free templates. From 2005, these features are bundled into InDesign CS2, which is offered at half price to existing PageMaker customers.
Reception
BYTE in 1989 listed PageMaker 3.0 as one of the BYTE Awards "Distinction" winners, stating that "it is a program that shows many of us how to use Macintosh maximally".
References
External links
- Adobe - PageMaker 7 (official site)
- Adobe PageMaker Resource Listing List
- The History of PageMaker
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