Aldus Corporation

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The Aldus Corporation (named after the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius ) developed the computer program PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh , which is regarded as the first desktop publishing (DTP) program. The company was founded by Paul Brainerd .

PageMaker appeared in July 1985 and required Adobe's PostScript page description language for printing on the Apple LaserWriter laser printer . From 1986 there was also a version for the IBM PC .

Aldus later launched the FreeHand drawing program , which was licensed by Altsys . In September 1994, Aldus and Adobe merged . Freehand then came to Macromedia and, after the merger in 2005, also to Adobe.

Aldus developed the TIFF and OPI industry standards .

Products

  • PageMaker - desktop publishing
  • Persuasion - presentation graphics
  • PhotoStyler - image editing
  • FreeHand - drawing program for illustrators and graphic designers
  • Fetch management
  • PrePrint - prepress, color correction and four-color separation
  • PressWise - prepress, digital sheet assembly
  • TrapWise - definition of trap
  • IntelliDraw drawing program (June 1992)

literature

  • Suzanne Crocker: Paul Brainerd, Aldus Corporation and the Desktop Publishing Revolution. In: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 41, Number 3, pp. 35-41