I am wondering if tomorrow's highly anticipated MacWorld Expo speech
has dulled the tripe-writer's imaginations. Today Adobe announced that
it is going to retire PageMaker (no more new versions, but it will
support existing versions). [as an aside, Adobe is releasing a plug-in
to work with inDesign that allows Pagemaker files to be used in
InDesign.]
For those you that are new to the computing world, PageMaker probably
is the "one" application that really pushed the desktop computer
revolution. Without it, desktop computers eventually would have taken
off in the business and home worlds, I think, but it would have surely
taken a lot longer. Many cottage industries sprang up because they
could afford to get a Mac and this program, and then the support
industries came to make those Macs running PageMaker run better.
Perhaps in the next week or so, some tech writer will realize that this
announcement will be easy column space, as we will read more about it.
Jerry
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