FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE

DESKTOP PUBLISHING WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
is the first desktop publishing program created
A
Aldus Pagemaker 1.0
B
Microsoft Excel
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Aldus PageMaker: The First Widely-Used Desktop Publishing Program. page layout program for personal computers. Initially PageMaker ran exclusively on the MAC, which had been introduced in 1984, but a PC version followed in 1986, running under Windows 1.0, which was introduced in November, 1985.

Detailed explanation-2: -Release history. Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for the Macintosh and in December 1986 for the IBM PC.

Detailed explanation-3: -.” (Wikipedia article on MacPublisher).

Detailed explanation-4: -On August 31, 1994, Aldus was acquired by Adobe Systems, which released its own first version as Adobe PageMaker 6 in 1995. PageMaker 6.5 was announced at Seybold SF ‘96 and shipped at the end of the year. Adobe PageMaker 7 was last major version.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aldus Pagemaker is a desktop publishing software released by Paul Brainerd and the Aldus Corporation in 1985.

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