>>PageMaker was made by a small company called Aldus, not Apple, but at the
time it was only available for the Macintosh platform (because Microsoft had
yet to develop their own GUI).
While Pagemaker did appear first on the Mac, it was also available in
Windows 1.0. What made the huge difference was the Apple Laserwriter
printer, which was the first printer with the Postscript language. You
could create the graphics and drive an imagesetter, but there was no way to
proof. Apple's offering of a laserprinter with the same language as the
imagesetters meant you could proof dirt cheap - pennies per proof rather
than $15-20 per proof. That gave them the edge and the worked hard to
maintain it.
Oddly enough, the only real difference today is ligatures - the Mac has them
built into the OS and Windows doesn't. But Adobe has built them into their
products so (as far as Adobe products are concerned) it is a level playing
field.
What's a ligature? Well, when certain character are placed together, there
is the odd illusion of them not being lined up correctly. Example: ff, fi
and fl. A ligature is actually a single character that is used to replace
the oddly-aligned pair to create a visual appealing alignment. "LT" will
have the top of the "T" overlap the lower part of the "L", to achieve this
visual effect.
If done correctly, you won't even notice it. Look at magazines for examples
of the work.
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Steven Buehler
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:53 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: PageMaker (Re: [SLUG] <OT> RIP Microsoft?)
On Feb 16, 2005, at 1:17 AM, Paul M Foster wrote:
> PageMaker, as I recall. It started Apple on the road to dominance in
> the graphics arena, where they still dominate. The Apple-dominated
> education market came later, and has fallen off considerably. (It's
> interesting to note that any time you see a computer in the movies or
> on TV, it's either a Dell or Apple.) For the PC, the "killer app" was
> a spreadsheet program whose name I don't recall (not 123, though, I
> don't think; Multicalc?).
PageMaker was made by a small company called Aldus, not Apple, but at the
time it was only available for the Macintosh platform (because Microsoft had
yet to develop their own GUI). Eventually Adobe bought Aldus' product line.
I remember using Aldus PageMaker in high school.
AppleWorks, which began life on the Apple II series, was copied to the Mac
platform as ClarisWorks by a company called Claris (which I believe was
actually spun off from Apple). Eventually (I believe after Jobs retook the
reins), Claris was absorbed back into Apple and it's now called AppleWorks
again (in fact, I have the latest version standard on the Mac). Only issue
was that AppleWorks wasn't designed to take advantage of OS X Panther's
features, and Apple's solution is their just-released Pages app (part of
their iWork '05 suite with Keynote 2).
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