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Comment by Brajeshwar

5 days ago

Aldus PageMaker is considered a failure! I thought it was neck-in-neck competition with QuarkXPress. I was good with PageMaker. Well, I can make it sing.

PageMaker and CorelDRAW paid for my high school and college education, and almost all of my earnings at that time. I wanted to try QuarkXPress, but I had never seen a Mac before I moved away from my hometown.

> Aldus PageMaker is considered a failure!

Only by this author. Adobe killed it 5 years after introducing their "Quark killer" InDesign (still sold today), having let it languish for several years before that. PageMaker was professional desktop publishing's killer app for some time.