Open post Mimi @Mimi@oldbytes.space · 6mo ago Replying to @stonetoolsblog@mastodon.social <p>🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️</p><p>It wasn't the first desktop publishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild the 40-year defunct <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OMNI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OMNI</span></a> Magazine, resurrect a 40-year defunct software rivalry, and examine how the effects of the publishing revolution trickled through the public sector.</p><p>This post comes with a free gift!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pagemaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pagemaker</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stonetools.ghost.io/pagemaker-mac" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stonetools.ghost.io/pagemaker-</span><span class="invisible">mac</span></a></p> @stonetoolsblog@mastodon.social I worked in commercial printing and electronic prepress and we called it Ragemaker. It made … choices. QuarkXPress destroyed it