[1985] Aldus PageMaker 1.0 (Launched on Apple Macintosh) │ [1987] Ported to Microsoft Windows (Popularized GUI-based layouts) │ [1994] Acquired by Adobe Systems (Integrated with Photoshop & Illustrator) │ [2001] Adobe PageMaker 7.0 (Final major production release) │ [2004] End-of-Life Announcement (Officially succeeded by Adobe InDesign)
PageMaker 8.0 was widely adopted across various industries, including: adobe pagemaker 80
The official successor that can often open legacy PageMaker 6.5 or 7.0 files. Affinity Publisher [1985] Aldus PageMaker 1
By the early 2000s, PageMaker was losing market share to competitors like . Instead of rebuilding the aging PageMaker architecture (which dated back to 1985), Adobe developed a completely new, more powerful layout engine under the code name "K2". Adobe developed a completely new