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KIFulgoreyesterday at 7:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'd forgotten about PageMaker. I was on my college newspaper staff and we used it for layout.

It was a small college in the rural midwest, so the local newspaper ran our copies. They didn't use digital tools, so we printed our content from PageMaker and laid it out by hand on a wax board. [1]

RIP and many thanks for making our jobs easier. At least to the point we waxed the master layout.

[1]: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-tech-waxers.h...


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JKCalhounyesterday at 9:19 PM

(Thanks for the link—I'm a fan of James Gurney and his videos on Gouache painting on YouTube.)

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DivingForGoldtoday at 12:24 AM

I value Pagemaker, still use it to this very day.