PageMaker 4.0.1

[Scott Baret]

Does it work on a Plus?

It's on four 800K disks, copyright date on the label is 1990. Still an Aldus product with this release.

The disks came in this nice little vinyl envelope...if only all companies did this! It's so elegantly designed and easy to store!

 

[coius]

It's seems that all the older Apps that companies sold seemed to come in better packaging. Now it's all about who designs the best cover, but with little content inside. I feel ripped off if I buy a box in the store. If all I am going to get is a registration card, and a CD with the software PLUS the manul in PDF Format, they charged the same as they used to charge, and gave you less content.

They seem to want you to waste your own money printing out the manual for a game (like a guide they provide) on your silly little inkjet, than to include a manul which cost them of all around $0.10 to make, and then charge like $50 for a game, it's ludicrious. And just for that, I go out and buy online versions for cheaper, and usually from 3rd-party companies. Stuff like Leopard Cache Cleaner, and other companies that I buy from, although they don't give you fancy packaging, they make it up with excellent email support, and good software.

Anyways, if you got this in a conqest, congrat's, it's probably well worth any money you paid for this!

 

[luddite]

They seem to want you to waste your own money printing out the manual for a game (like a guide they provide) on your silly little inkjet, than to include a manul which cost them of all around $0.10 to make

Don't underestimate the cost of printing... Even in bulk, the cost of printing a decent manual is going to be several times more than just the box & disc.

You might also look at the resource use issue... I think it's a safe bet that maybe 10% of users actually RTFM and probably 10% of them will actually be inclined to print a hard copy... so you've just saved 99% of the world's trees.



Don't get me wrong, I do miss the good old days of glossy, spiral-bound manuals that you could beat someone to death with, but it's hard to justify that sort of thing both in terms of economics and environmental impact.

 

[Unknown_K]

Trees are renewable, we have not been clearcutting for ages.

Companies should just sell a CD in a jewel case like they did for playstation games, and have a special edition one with a real box, manuals, and trinkets for the collector.

 

[luddite]

Trees are renewable, we have not been clearcutting for ages.

Trees might be renewable, but most of the energy expended in harvesting them comes from non-renewables...

Anyhow, the point I was making is why use resources that you don't need to? Forget the environmental angle... it's just common sense.

 

[dru]

Does it work on a Plus?
It's on four 800K disks, copyright date on the label is 1990. Still an Aldus product with this release.

The disks came in this nice little vinyl envelope...if only all companies did this! It's so elegantly designed and easy to store!

Yes, it should work just fine. I did a bit of layout work for a newspaper with this version on a Plus (very slowly) in the early 1990's. Fortunately I could get access to a IIcx.

PageMaker is still among my very favorite apps of all time.

 

[russman]

I miss some of the gigantic manuals that came with the old software too. Even though it is a whack of wasted paper. I find online manuals gimmicky and hard to use. Some feel tacked on and not really integrated with the program. And if you can't get the program to start for example then sometimes you have a hard time finding the problem without a proper manual. The largest i have is for Canvas 3.0, a three ring binder with hundereds of pages. Absolutely huge manual, must have had a specific team devoted to just making the manual as its bigger than some tech books out there!

 

[ealex79]

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I remember when I bought Visual C++ 1.5...

Huge pile of books.

But Online Reference it MUCH better then that.

 

[Scott Baret]

If you want huge manuals, go buy WordPerfect 5.1. They must weigh ten pounds each. It also came with six floppies or so (at least the 3.5" version did) plus it came with this awesome certificate of license that looks like a miniature college diploma...I want to frame mine!