Pagemaker in a Big Blue suit

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The arrival of Aldus's Pagemaker for the PC means that users have a choice; previously, users who wanted to do complex page layouts on a microcomputer were primarily limited to the Macintosh. Other PC publishing programs, such as Xerox's Ventura, are not well suited to page layouts; they are designed, instead, for working with long documents that need a consistent appearance throughout. Pagemaker, priced at $695, works with Microsoft Windows, giving the program an operating structure similar to the Mac's, with standardized displays, easy-to-use menus, and a mouse. The new program runs on an IBM PC AT or a compatible, requiring 512Kbytes of memory (640Kbytes are recommended), a 10Mbyte hard disk (20Mbytes are recommended), and IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adaptor or the Hercules Graphics Card. Pagemaker on the PC is systematically compared with its Mac counterpart; strengths and weaknesses are detailed.

Text processing software, Product introduction, Performance, New products, Aldus PageMaker (DTP software)

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Once more, with color and style: Pagemaker 3.0

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Pagemaker 3.0 from Aldus Corp is an exceptional product that looks and acts the same on both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC. Version 3.0 offers improved graphics capabilities and simplified production of long documents. 'Autoflow' is a new feature that lets users put text into multiple columns and pages, adding pages as needed. Style sheets can be imported from PC or Macintosh versions of Microsoft Word, or they can be created in Pagemaker. There is no way to automatically generate a table of contents or an index, so that Pagemaker is a better page-design program than one for handling long documents. PC requirements include: 640Kbytes, 20Mbyte hard disk, DOS 3.0 or higher, EGA or VGA display, and a Windows-compatible mouse. The program costs $795.

Graphics software, IBM PC (Intel-compatible system), ALDC, Aldus PageMaker 3.0 (DTP software)

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Hassle-free foreign exchange

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Transferring files between Macs and MS-DOS-based microcomputers is best done by standardizing on applications that have outposts in both camps. These dual-platform applications include WordPerfect or Microsoft's Word in word processing, Adobe Illustrator for drawing, Microsoft Excel for business graphics and spreadsheet analysis, Ventura Publisher and Aldus PageMaker for page layout, and others. There are also utilities that can be used when the files exchanged have no format in common, such as Apple's Apple File Exchange used with MacLinPlus/Translators from DataViz. Moving files from one format to another is not easy, but it may save a user from recreating that file from scratch.

Usage, AAPL, File transfer (Computers), Apple Inc., DataViz Inc., Desktop utilities, Microcomputer, Desktop Utility, Software Migration, MS-DOS, File Transfer, Apple File Exchange (File format conversion software), MacLinkPlus/Translators 4.1 (Data conversion software)

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