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woody649 · 07-08-2023, 11:21 PM

One of the (possibly THE) great-granddaddies of desktop publishing, Aldus PageMaker (which most of you probably know), lives on. Aldus was acquired by Adobe many years ago and InDesign has replaced PageMaker as their premier DTP program, but I just learned that PageMaker is still available ... as freeware!

I had no idea. I have downloaded it, and I now need to decide if I want to install it and play with it. I wish I know how to set up virtual machines. I love playing with software, but I don't like clogging up my Windows registry with left-over entries when I delete programs after testing. We didn't have that problem under good old MS-DOS.

07-08-2023, 11:21 PM	#1
woody649 Member Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 469	My mind is officially blown! One of the (possibly THE) great-granddaddies of desktop publishing, Aldus PageMaker (which most of you probably know), lives on. Aldus was acquired by Adobe many years ago and InDesign has replaced PageMaker as their premier DTP program, but I just learned that PageMaker is still available ... as freeware! I had no idea. I have downloaded it, and I now need to decide if I want to install it and play with it. I wish I know how to set up virtual machines. I love playing with software, but I don't like clogging up my Windows registry with left-over entries when I delete programs after testing. We didn't have that problem under good old MS-DOS.

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