I never used PageMaker but I learned that we have it to thank for the classic institution of Lorem Ipsum.[1]
Thank you, sir.
Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
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Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#12Getting seed funding from Fluke is a very PNW detail. RIP to a founder from a different age.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#13Died Sunday? Sunday two weeks ago. Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainer... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145777 )
as long as you get your correction in that's all that matters. no respect for the dead have you.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#14For many years since 1997, I would brag and boast about Adobe PageMaker, and everyone would look at me funny and tell me "it doesn't exist". I would insist it did. I used it for web publishing. It was fast. No cruft. It had FTP client built in (which was a little new at the time). It had ability to change file paths in HTML if the file was renamed or saved as something else.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#15Died Sunday? Sunday two weeks ago. Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainer... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145777 )
as long as you get your correction in that's all that matters. no respect for the dead have you.
maybe it's just me, but it shows more respect when people are getting the date right
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#16I'd forgotten about PageMaker. I was on my college newspaper staff and we used it for layout.
It was a small college in the rural midwest, so the local newspaper ran our copies. They didn't use digital tools, so we printed our content from PageMaker and laid it out by hand on a wax board. [1]
RIP and many thanks for making our jobs easier. At least to the point we waxed the master layout.
[1]: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-tech-waxers.h...
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#17My dad still uses PageMaker to publish his print magazine. He's been using this program since 1987, starting with a Macintosh and then later moving to Windows in the late 1990s. RIP Paul Brainerd.
Out of curiosity, which PageMaker version does he use that works with his workflow today? I'd be interested in seeing the magazine.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#18I can still see that black and white splash screen in my head. Computers were so magical back then.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#19PageMaker was an iconic program of the DTP revolution for me, along with the Aldus logo. We couldn't afford a Mac at the time, so I made cargo-cult copies of programs like this on my home computer, and pored over the screenshots I saw in magazines. Years later, my Mum got a job in her office producing the in-house company magazine using PageMaker. I spent hours getting to know it while helping her out.
Re: Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
#20I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.