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January 05, 2004
Farewell, PageMaker
Adobe is pulling the plug on PageMaker, nearly twenty years after it was introduced. Of course, we now have much better layout applications to use — like Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign — but PageMaker will always have a place in design history as the application that kick-started the desktop publishing revolution.
Back in the mid-eighties, PageMaker was one-third of the the trio that let designers (and non-designers) set their own type and lay out their designs digitally (the Mac and the PostScript laser printer were the other two parts). The entire printing and publishing industry changed, seemingly overnight.
I remember using PageMaker on an Mac Classic, doing school newspaper layouts on a 13” black-and-white display. PageMaker is partially responsible for getting me to where I am today — designing professionally (though I now prefer InDesign to PageMaker or Quark for print work).
Posted by paullheureux at January 5, 2004 11:01 AM