Comment by insane_dreamer
5 days ago
Replaced by - I misspoke when I wrote "transformed". It was a precursor to InDesign; Adobe bought Aldus and PageMaker with it, and eventually dropped it in favor of InDesign. You're right that they both co-existed. I used both extensively back in the day (along with Quark for a while).
I dislike what Adobe has become with its CC crap, but InDesign was a masterpiece of software. (I say "was" as I stopped doing page/graphic design 15 years ago, and unfamiliar with today's offerings).
My impression back then was that InDesign was created to match the workflows from Quark, which were popular in magazines. PageMaker was more at home when page setting books and publications with more consistent formatting across pages.
As I recall, InDesign essentially combined the single-page design focus of Quark with the multi-page design focus of PageMaker, to create an app that did both quite well.