Definition of Aldus

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Aldus
The company that created The company that created PageMaker, since sold to Adobe. named for Aldus Manutius, the 16th century printer and inventor of italics and paperbacks.

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Aldus
Aldus Corporation (named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius) was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software for the Apple Macintosh, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing (DTP) field. The founder and chairman of Aldus was Paul Brainerd. Aldus Corporation was based in Seattle, WA.

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