PageMaker was awarded a Codie award for Best New Use of a Computer in 1986. 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.Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for the Macintosh and in December 1986 for the IBM PC.The last major release of PageMaker came in 2001, and customers were offered InDesign licenses at a lower cost. Quark proposed buying the product and cancelling it, but instead, in 1999 Adobe released their 'Quark Killer', Adobe InDesign. 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. The program remained a major force in the high-end DTP market through the early 1990s, but new features were slow in coming.
After Adobe purchased the majority of Aldus' assets (including FreeHand, PressWise, PageMaker etc.) in 1994 and subsequently phased out the Aldus name, version 6 was released. If your goal is to produce documents that look as though they were created in something more capable than a word processor but that don’t require the high level of design that QuarkXPress and InDesign offer, PageMaker may be all you need–just beware the pitfalls of the new data-merge tool.A key component that led to PageMaker's success was its native support for Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language. Macworld’s Buying AdviceĬompared with QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign, PageMaker is labor-intensive, so it’s best suited to basic jobs involving simple designs and few pages. And Adobe has no plans to Carbonize PageMaker 7.0 (though I had no trouble using version 7.0 in Mac OS X’s Classic mode). But even with those settings, I got frequent memory errors. While version 6.5 needed between 9MB and 20MB of RAM, the default minimum and preferred memory settings for version 7.0 are 15MB and 32MB, respectively. However, those features were difficult to use and produced mediocre Web pages, and they’re no better in version 7.0.īeyond offering neither substantive new features nor fixes for longtime defects such as its separate, inadequate table editor, PageMaker 7.0 has a few other flaws. PageMaker 7.0 is nearly identical to version 6.5, whose big push was online publishing. Adobe says the data-merge tool is intended only for mail merges, where an entire letter is duplicated with a unique name and address in each copy.
When I tried to merge data into a PageMaker document containing other text and images, PageMaker 7.0 went haywire and copied the entire document at the beginning of each record. The actual import works well enough, as long as your PageMaker document has nothing else in it.
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