Adobe PageMaker

Adobe PageMaker is a desktop publishing program from Adobe Systems, whose development was stopped with version 7.0, but is still being actively marketed.

History

The original manufacturer Aldus PageMaker Corporation brought in 1985 for the Apple Macintosh onto the market. The program made ​​it possible for the first time, along with Apple's LaserWriter, the first PostScript laser printer to create professional set on a personal computer.

Although PageMaker provided the essential functions for phototypesetting, lacked many translators and media designers, the precision of the then customary phototypesetting machines such as Linotype, also it controls only a few graphical features. Therefore, QuarkXPress, which came on the market two years later was able to push through quickly. When QuarkXPress could achieve a market share of about 90% in the professional sector beginning of the 1990s, PageMaker was positioned more for semi-professional set and for home. Aldus was bought in 1994 by Adobe.

After 1999, the Adobe - house competitor Adobe InDesign was offered for the first time, which is considered in addition to QuarkXPress as a quasi- standard for graphic designers and layout artists, Adobe 2002, with version 7.0 a development of PageMaker. The last update was in 2004.

Switch to Indesign

Adobe recommends PageMaker users to switch to the latest version of InDesign. As of version " InDesign CS PM Edition" all versions are complemented by PageMaker features and allow the opening and converting PageMaker documents, version 6 or higher.

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