| Original author(s) | Aldus Corporation |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
| Final release | 7.0.2 / 30 March 2004 |
| Operating system | Windows XP and earlier Mac OS 9 OS/2 v3.01 |
| Type | Desktop publishing |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/ |
Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) is a discontinued desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh.[1] The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface, PageMaker publishing software, and the Apple LaserWriterlaser printer marked the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Ported to PCs running Windows 1.0 in 1987,[2] PageMaker helped to popularize both the Macintosh platform and the Windows environment.[3][4]
A key component that led to PageMaker's success was its native support for Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language. After Adobe purchased the majority of Aldus's assets (including FreeHand, PressWise, PageMaker, etc.) in 1994 and subsequently phased out the Aldus name, version 6 was released. The program remained a major force in the high-end DTP market through the early 1990s, but new features were slow in coming. By the mid-1990s, it faced increasing competition from QuarkXPress on the Mac, and to a lesser degree, Ventura on the PC, and by the end of the decade it was no longer a major force. Quark proposed buying the product and cancelling it, but instead, in 1999 Adobe released their 'Quark Killer', Adobe InDesign. The last major release of PageMaker came in 2001, and customers were offered InDesign licenses at a lower cost.
Release history[edit]
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for the Macintosh and in December 1986 for the IBM PC.[5][6]
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.2 for Macintosh was released in 1986 and added support for PostScript fonts built into LaserWriter Plus or downloaded to the memory of other output devices.[7] PageMaker was awarded a Codie award for Best New Use of a Computer in 1986. In October 1986, a version of Pagemaker was made available for Hewlett-Packard's HP Vectra computers. In 1987, Pagemaker was available on Digital Equipment's VAXstation computers.[6]
- Aldus Pagemaker 2.0 was released in 1987. Until May 1987, the initial Windows release was bundled with a full version of Windows 1.0.3; after that date, a 'Windows-runtime' without task-switching capabilities was included.[8][9] Thus, users who did not have Windows could run the application from MS-DOS.
- Aldus Pagemaker 3.0 for Macintosh was shipped in April 1988.[10] PageMaker 3.0 for the PC was shipped in May 1988[11] and required Windows 2.0,[12] which was bundled as a run-time version.[13] Version 3.01 was available for OS/2 and took extensive advantage of multithreading for improved user responsiveness.
- Aldus PageMaker 4.0 for Macintosh was released in 1990 and offered new word-processing capabilities, expanded typographic controls, and enhanced features for handling long documents.[14] A version for the PC was available by 1991.
- Aldus PageMaker 5.0 was released in January 1993.[6]
- 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. Due to Aldus' use of closed, proprietary data formats, this poses substantial problems for users who have works authored in these legacy versions.
- Adobe PageMaker 7.0 was the final version made available. It was released 9 July 2001, though updates have been released for the two supported platforms since. The Macintosh version runs only in Mac OS 9 or earlier; there is no native support for Mac OS X,[15] and it does not run on Intel-based Macs without SheepShaver. It does not run well under Classic, and Adobe recommends that customers use an older Macintosh capable of booting into Mac OS 9. The Windows version supports Windows XP, but according to Adobe, 'PageMaker 7.x does not install or run on Windows Vista.'[16]
End of development[edit]
InDesign was the successor to PageMaker.
Development of PageMaker had flagged in the later years at Aldus and, by 1998, PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market[17] to the comparatively feature-richQuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application code-named 'Shuksan' (later 'K2'), originally started by Aldus, openly planned and positioned as a 'Quark killer'. This was released as Adobe InDesign 1.0 in 1999.[18][19]
Download Adobe PageMaker 7.0.1a for Windows for free, without any viruses, from Uptodown. Try the latest version of Adobe PageMaker 2005 for Windows. So far this looks really good, and I am using it in tandem with Screencastify with no problem. I would like to see one feature added-right now, there is no way to scroll the screen while the extension is active.
The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as 'languishing on life support'.[20] Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and 'strongly encouraged' users to migrate to InDesign, initially through special 'InDesign PageMaker Edition' and 'PageMaker Plug-in' versions, which added PageMaker's data merge, bullet, and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts, and templates.[21] From 2005, these features were bundled into InDesign CS2, which was offered at half-price to existing PageMaker customers.[22][23]
No new major versions of Adobe PageMaker have been released since, and it does not ship alongside Adobe InDesign.
Reception[edit]
BYTE in 1989 listed PageMaker 3.0 as among the 'Distinction' winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it 'is the program that showed many of us how to use the Macintosh to its full potential'.[24]
References[edit]
- ^Adams, Peter (16 March 2004). 'PageMaker Past, Present, and Future'. Archived from the original on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'Aldus Now Shipping Pagemaker for IBM PC'. InfoWorld. 9 (6). 1987.
- ^Edwards, Benj (3 May 2013). 'Born Apple: Six famous Windows apps that debuted on the Mac'. Macworld.
- ^Pfiffner, Pamela (11 September 2007). 'Opinion: Adobe's world'. Macworld.
- ^'A potted history of computers - the eighties'. www.hodgy.net.
- ^ abc'History of Aldus Corporation – FundingUniverse'. www.fundinguniverse.com.
- ^Keith Thompson: Pagemaker remains Chief Composer. In: InfoWorld Volume 8, Issue 23, 9 June 1986. ISSN0199-6649. Pages 39–40.
- ^Ken Freeze: Flexibility for PC Pros is Page Layout Strength. In: InfoWorld Volume 9, No. 12, 23 March 1987. ISSN0199-6649. Pages 42-44. - Review of PageMaker for the PC. Remarks about the Windows-bundle on p. 43, first column.
- ^Michael J. Miller: First Look. In: InfoWorld Volume 9, Issue 9, 2 March 1987. ISSN0199-6649. - Short comparison of PageMaker, Ventura Publisher and Harvard Professional Publisher, a modified version of Superpage by Bestinfo.
- ^Aldus Corp. Ships PageMaker 3.0 for the Macintosh. BusinessWire, 24 March 1988.
- ^Aldus Ships PC Version of PageMaker 3.0. Businesswire, 19 May 1988.
- ^The precise Windows version required was 2.03, which is the exact version number of the first publicly available Windows 2 release. cf. Windows Version History. Microsoft Knowledge Base, Document No. 32905. Last access date 22 July 2010.
- ^Stuart J. Johnston: Pagemaker 3.0 Adds Support for Style Sheets. In: InfoWorld, Volume 10, Issue 22, 30 May 1988, page 20.
- ^'Business - Aldus Releases Pagemaker Version - Seattle Times Newspaper'. community.seattletimes.nwsource.com.
- ^'PageMaker 7 System requirements'. Adobe. Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'How Adobe Products Support Windows Vista'(PDF). Adobe. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
- ^Matthew Honan (1 June 2001). 'Is 7 PageMaker's Lucky Number?'. Macworld.
- ^Ann Marsh (31 May 1999). 'Pride goeth before destruction'. Forbes. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^Gretchen Peck (September 2004). 'QuarkXPress versus Adobe InDesign'. Digital Output. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.
- ^Galen Gruman (17 May 2004). 'Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack'. Macworld.
- ^Jim Dalrymple (5 January 2004). 'Adobe discontinues PageMaker dev, offers plug-ins for InDesign'. Macworld.
- ^'FAQ for Adobe PageMaker Users'(PDF). Adobe. 2005. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^'InDesign CS2 Frequently Asked Questions'(PDF). Adobe. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'The BYTE Awards'. BYTE. January 1989. p. 327.
External links[edit]
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- ^https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/54/Aldus-Corporation.htmlReference for Business Company History Index Information Technology Aldus Corporation - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Aldus Corporation41 First Avenue SouthSeattle, Washington 98104-2871U.S.A.
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| Publication Settings | Supported? | Notes |
| Double-Sided, Facing Pages | Yes (Limited) | InDesign converts double-sided documents that do not contain facing pages into single-page spreads. When both Double-Sided and Facing Pages are selected, files are converted into facing-page spreads. |
| Preferences | Supported? | Notes |
| Snap to Constraints | No | -- |
| Save Option (Smaller, Faster) | No | -- |
| Horizontal and Vertical Nudge | No | -- |
| Greek Text Below | No | -- |
| PostScript Printing-Memory Freed for Graphics | No | -- |
| Display PPD Name | No | -- |
| Turn Pages When Autoflowing | No | -- |
| TrueType Display (Preserve Line Spacing/ Character Shape) | No | -- |
| Trapping Preferences | Yes | When Auto-overprint black strokes or fills (or both) are selected in the Trapping Preferences dialog box in PageMaker, the setting carries over to InDesign. However, Overprint Stroke or Overprint Fill is deselected in the Attributes palette. |
| Page Layout Features | Supported? | Notes |
| Booklists and Booked Publications | No | InDesign ignores Booklists when opening PageMaker publications. If you want to open all the publications on a Booklist together, run the Build Booklet plug-in in PageMaker with a layout of None selected. The booked publications are combined into one. Text blocks and frames are no longer threaded, however. |
| Index | Yes (Limited) | Index entries from a PageMaker publication appear in the InDesign Index palette. Text with cross-references that use the See Herein or See Also Herein option are mapped as See or See Also. |
| Items on the Pasteboard | Yes (Limited) | All items on the PageMaker pasteboard appear on the pasteboard of the first spread in the InDesign document. InDesign uses a different pasteboard for each spread. |
| Layers | Yes | To maintain the order of overlapping items, InDesign creates two layers when converting a PageMaker publication: Default and Master Default. Master Default contains the Master page items. |
| Master Page Items | Yes | Master pages in PageMaker convert to master pages in InDesign and retain all objects including page numbering and guides. Some layers could be added to the document. To retain the stacking order established in the original PageMaker publication. (See the Layers listing in this section.) |
| Non-Printing Objects | Yes | All objects designated in PageMaker as Non-Printing are converted with Non-Printing selected in the InDesign Attribute palette. |
| Ruler Guides | Yes | -- |
| Table of Contents | Yes | Table of Contents text converts as a Table of Contents, with PageMaker TOC Style available in the style pop-up menu in the InDesign TOC dialog box. |
| Text Attributes | Supported? | Notes |
| Text Composition | Yes (Limited) | InDesign assigns its Paragraph composer to all paragraphs. However, you can assign the single-line composer to one or more paragraphs. In InDesign, the single-line text composition engine chooses line breaks more similarly to the PageMaker composition engine, but text could still reflow. |
| Top of Caps and Proportional Leading | Yes (Limited) | InDesign uses only Baseline leading. Proportional and Top of Caps leading in PageMaker convert to Baseline leading in InDesign, resulting in text shifting. |
| Vertical Alignment in Text Frames | Yes | Vertical Alignment settings are maintained when you open PageMaker publications. |
| First Baseline | Yes (Limited) | The First Baseline of converted text can appear different than text created in InDesign. The First Baseline of converted text is set to Leading, but the First Baseline of text created in InDesign is set to Ascent by default. |
| Hyphenation | Yes (Limited) | InDesign uses a different hyphenation method than PageMaker, so line breaks can be different. |
| Fonts | Yes (Limited) | All fonts in a PageMaker publication should be active when the publication is opened in InDesign. InDesign can continue to list fonts as missing if they are activated after the PageMaker publication is opened. |
| Applied Bold or Italic Font Attributes | Yes (Limited) | InDesign preserves bold or italic formatting if the correct typeface is installed (for example, Tekton Bold). If the typeface is not installed, then the font is identified as missing in InDesign and is substituted. InDesign retains information about what text had bold or italic formatting applied to it so you can reformat it after substitution. |
| Shadow Text Attribute (Mac OS only) | No | Shadow text converts to plain text. |
| Outline Text Attribute (Mac OS only) | Yes (Limited) | Outline text converts as text with a stroke of .25 inches and a fill of paper. |
| Expert Tracking Values | No | Expert tracking values revert to a zero kerning value. |
| Paragraph Rules | Yes (Limited) | All paragraph rules convert as solid lines. Differences in the InDesign leading method affect the position of paragraph rules. Tints applied to paragraph rules are preserved. |
| [No style] Paragraph Style | Yes (Limited) | The [No style] in PageMaker is the equivalent of [Basic Paragraph] in InDesign CS2 or [No Paragraph Style] in InDesign CS. However, [Basic Paragraph] and [No Paragraph Style] picks up the attributes of a named style if that style was selected before any typing occurred in the PageMaker publication. |
| Text Links | No | Linked text documents are embedded upon conversion. |
| Hyperlinks | Yes | -- |
| Bullets and Numbering | Yes | InDesign applies bullets and numbering as normal, editable, characters. |
| Data Merge | Yes (CS2, CS PageMaker Edition)No (CS) | InDesign treats text fields as regular text until you establish a link to the data source file. |
| Color | Supported? | Notes |
| Tints | Yes (Limited) | Tints are converted as percentages of the parent color. If the parent color isn't in the Swatches palette, it's added during conversion. When an object with a tint is selected, the parent color is selected in the Swatches palette, and the tint value appears in the pop-up menu. |
| HLS Colors | No | InDesign converts color swatches based on the HLS color model to RGB values. |
| Hexachrome Colors | No | All Hexachrome colors are converted to RGB values. |
| Pantone libraries | Yes | -- |
| CMS | Yes (Limited) | Profiles that are not ICC-compliant are replaced using the default CMS settings and profiles you specified for InDesign. |
| Graphics and Objects | Supported? | Notes |
| Missing Graphic Links | Yes | Link information for missing graphics is preserved when converting PageMaker publications. After conversion, the missing links can be updated. |
| OLE Objects | No | InDesign doesn't support OLE. OLE objects drop out when you open PageMaker publications in InDesign, and any text wrap is lost. However, the bounding boxes of OLE objects convert. |
| Embedded Graphics | Yes | -- |
| Adobe Table 3.0 Objects | Yes (Limited) | PageMaker tables appear as graphics and are not editable in InDesign. |
| Fill Patterns | No | Fill patterns applied from PageMaker's Fill menu become solid. |
| Screen Patterns/Angles | No | InDesign doesn't support screen patterns or angles applied to TIFF images in Image Control; it drops them from imported TIFF files. |
| Colorized TIFF Files | Yes | -- |
| Photoshop Effects | Yes | -- |
| Strokes | Yes (Limited) | InDesign supports only solid or dashed strokes. Other stroke variations (such as Reverse or strokes created with the Custom option) either unreverse or become solid strokes in InDesign. Hairlines become .25-point strokes. |
| Keylines | Yes (Limited) | Keylines become grouped to the object to which they are applied. |
| Text Wrap | Yes | -- |
| Masking | Yes (Limited) | PageMaker items arranged between an item and its mask will be positioned behind the item and mask after you open the publication in InDesign. |
| Inline Graphics | Yes | -- |
| Imported PDF Documents | Yes (Limited) | InDesign displays the first page of a multi-page PDF file, regardless which page you placed in the PageMaker publication. To display the correct page, in InDesign delete the image (that is, the PDF file), and place the PDF page again. |
| Imported QuickTime Movies | Yes (Limited in CS and CS PageMaker Edition) | InDesign CS and CS PageMaker Edition import QuickTime movie frames unless they have been scaled. If a movie frame has been scaled, the movie is reimported to InDesign, scaled to 100% (horizontally and vertically. And, it's positioned in the upper-left corner of the frame. |
| Scaled Images | Yes (Limited) | Scaled images in documents with broken links are imported at a different size than expected. |