Paul Brainerd, Desktop Publishing Pioneer and Aldus Founder, Dies at 78
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Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus Corporation and pioneer of desktop publishing with PageMaker software, has died at age 78. The article chronicles his journey from being laid off in 1984 to creating the revolutionary PageMaker software that defined desktop publishing, and his subsequent philanthropic work through the Brainerd Foundation focusing on environmental conservation. It details how Brainerd and four engineers developed PageMaker during a road trip, creating a tool that democratized publishing and transformed the industry. After selling Aldus to Adobe, Brainerd devoted his life to environmental philanthropy, establishing the Brainerd Foundation which has donated over $150 million to conservation causes.
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Paul Brainerd, who coined the term 'desktop publishing' and built Aldus Corporation's PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Island.
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program for the Macintosh, and it transformed the publishing industry by allowing anyone with a computer to create professional-looking documents.
After selling Aldus to Adobe Systems in 1994 for $525 million, Brainerd devoted the second chapter of his life to environmental philanthropy.
The Brainerd Foundation has donated more than $150 million to conservation causes in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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