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If you are Mac user then chances are you’ve spent more money than a typical PC user. The frequency of internet-based attacks on Macs is lower than it is on PCs. Also worth noting is that Macs have a better design than PCs do. This design offers you an unparalleled level of user experience. Interestingly, enhancing this experience is possible. More specifically, you can do that by taking advantage of open source software for Mac. Open Source software are free of cost and as good as many commercial applications.
10 Open Source Software For Mac
Here is a List of the Top 10 Open Source Software for Mac. Also, check our list of Best Open Source software for Windows 10
1. Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an open source browser. Mac users can get it online at zero cost. Released in 2004, Firefox challenged the dominance of Internet Explorer. Today, more than half a billion people use it worldwide making it the second most popular browser globally. Its strength lies in its speed, reliability and the availability of useful extensions. These strengths outweigh the usefulness of Safari as a web browser.
2. Quicksilver
Having Quicksilver on your Mac is an excellent idea because it helps you work quickly. More specifically, it makes it possible for you to set keyboard shortcuts for various tasks. These tasks include launching apps, sending emails, and manipulating files. Nicholas Jitkoff started the development of this open source software in 2003. Today, this development takes place on GitHub through a team of volunteers referred to as QSApp.
3. Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free open source platform that is available for the user on Macs and PCs. It is an email client, news client, chat client, and RSS. In contrast, Mail is just an email client. Consequently, you can perform more tasks with Thunderbird than you can with Mail. For example, auto-replies to particular messages are possible if you have Thunderbird on your Mac.
4. VLC Media Player
This is an open source media player that can practically handle any file format and one of the world’s most popular free media players. This can handle any audio files, video files, or media stream without the need for installing additional codecs. It also gives you a degree of control over playback, optimizing video and audio for your specific hardware configuration and even screen recording for your desktop.
5. OpenOffice
As the name suggests, OpenOffice is an open source office suite. This suite includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a formula editor. It includes several applications as well. These applications deal with database management, drawing, and making a presentation. Use OpenOffice on your Mac instead of opting for Microsoft applications such as Excel and PowerPoint. Remember, this office suite is free, unlike the one that comes from Microsoft Corporation.
6. AbiWord
AbiWord is an open source word processing application. It is freely available, unlike Microsoft Word on PC. Shared features that it has with MS Word include tables, footnotes, styles, headers, and footers. It has templates, multiple views, grammar checks, and spelling checks as well. One unique feature is several users can work on the same file in real time with full synchronization.
7. Seashore
Adobe Photoshop is expensive especially if you are using its Creative Cloud platform. You can use Seashore as an inexpensive alternative to editing images. This editor works on Macs exclusively because the developers wrote it on a native Mac toolkit known as Cocoa. It can edit several graphics formats such as PNG, TIFF, and JPEG. It can also read GIF, PDF, and BMP files.
8. Scribus
Adobe Pagemaker is one of the oldest desktop publishing programs worldwide. In fact, the Aldus Corporation introduced it in 1985, and the last major release was in 2001. Perhaps it is time to replace this old and expensive software. You can do that by opting for Scribus, which is free software. You can use it for creating brochures, newsletters, and posters in addition to producing interactive and animated PDF presentations.
9. Adium
Apple introduced iChat as an instant messaging application for its Mac users. It supported chats over several platforms including AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and XXPP. Unfortunately, Apple discontinued it. You can replace its functions with Adium. Adium is a free and open source platform for instant messaging. It operates on Macs exclusively, and it supports all the messaging networks that iChat supported.
10. OneButton FTP
Using a memory stick to transfer files from one computer to another may be a cumbersome process. It can also be unnecessary if the two devices are on your home network. In this case, you can use the command line’ FTP. However, opting for the OneButton FTP is the best option for making such a move. More specifically, this process is quick and straightforward when you do it with the OneButton FTP.
Conclusion
Like every other top list article on the internet, this one is also based on an opinion. This software got a huge number of downloads and being updated from time to time. However, there are many great open source software apart from these which couldn’t be added here in my list of top 10. Feel free to share your favorite software in the comment section below.
Original author(s) | Aldus |
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Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
Final release | 7.0.2 / 30 March 2004 |
Operating system | Windows XP and earlier Mac OS 9 OS/2 v3.01 |
Type | Desktop publishing |
License | Trialware |
Website | www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/ |
Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) is a discontinued desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by Aldus on the Apple Macintosh.[1] The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface, PageMaker publishing software, and the Apple LaserWriterlaser printer marked the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Ported to PCs running Windows 1.0 in 1987,[2] PageMaker helped to popularize both the Macintosh platform and the Windows environment.[3][4]
A key component that led to PageMaker's success was its native support for Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language. After Adobe purchased the majority of Aldus' assets (including FreeHand, PressWise, PageMaker etc.) in 1994 and subsequently phased out the Aldus name, version 6 was released. The program remained a major force in the high-end DTP market through the early 1990s, but new features were slow in coming. By the mid-1990s, it faced increasing competition from QuarkXPress on the Mac, and to a lesser degree, Ventura on the PC, and by the end of the decade it was no longer a major force. Quark proposed buying the product and cancelling it, but instead, in 1999 Adobe released their 'Quark Killer', Adobe InDesign. The last major release of PageMaker came in 2001, and customers were offered InDesign licenses at a lower cost.
Release history[edit]
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for the Macintosh and in December 1986 for the IBM PC.[5][6]
- Aldus Pagemaker 1.2 for Macintosh was released in 1986 and added support for PostScript fonts built into LaserWriter Plus or downloaded to the memory of other output devices.[7] PageMaker was awarded a Codie award for Best New Use of a Computer in 1986. In October 1986, a version of Pagemaker was made available for Hewlett-Packard's HP Vectra computers. In 1987, Pagemaker was available on Digital Equipment's VAXstation computers.[6]
- Aldus Pagemaker 2.0 was released in 1987. Until May 1987, the initial Windows release was bundled with a full version of Windows 1.0.3; after that date, a 'Windows-runtime' without task-switching capabilities was included.[8][9] Thus, users who did not have Windows could run the application from MS-DOS.
- Aldus Pagemaker 3.0 for Macintosh was shipped in April 1988.[10] PageMaker 3.0 for the PC was shipped in May 1988[11] and required Windows 2.0,[12] which was bundled as a run-time version.[13] Version 3.01 was available for OS/2 and took extensive advantage of multithreading for improved user responsiveness.
- Aldus PageMaker 4.0 for Macintosh was released in 1990 and offered new word-processing capabilities, expanded typographic controls, and enhanced features for handling long documents.[14] A version for the PC was available by 1991.
- Aldus PageMaker 5.0 was released in January 1993.[6]
- Adobe PageMaker 6.0 was released in 1995, a year after Adobe Systems acquired Aldus Corporation.
- Adobe PageMaker 6.5 was released in 1996. Support for versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 is no longer offered through the official Adobe support system. Due to Aldus' use of closed, proprietary data formats, this poses substantial problems for users who have works authored in these legacy versions.
- Adobe PageMaker 7.0 was the final version made available. It was released 9 July 2001, though updates have been released for the two supported platforms since. The Macintosh version runs only in Mac OS 9 or earlier; there is no native support for Mac OS X,[15] and it does not run on Intel-based Macs without SheepShaver. It does not run well under Classic, and Adobe recommends that customers use an older Macintosh capable of booting into Mac OS 9. The Windows version supports Windows XP, but according to Adobe, 'PageMaker 7.x does not install or run on Windows Vista.'[16]
End of development[edit]
InDesign was the successor to PageMaker.
Development of PageMaker had flagged in the later years at Aldus and, by 1998, PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market[17] to the comparatively feature-richQuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application code-named 'Shuksan' (later 'K2'), originally started by Aldus, openly planned and positioned as a 'Quark killer'. This was released as Adobe InDesign 1.0 in 1999.[18][19]
The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as 'languishing on life support'.[20] Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and 'strongly encouraged' users to migrate to InDesign, initially through special 'InDesign PageMaker Edition' and 'PageMaker Plug-in' versions, which added PageMaker's data merge, bullet, and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts, and templates.[21] From 2005, these features were bundled into InDesign CS2, which was offered at half-price to existing PageMaker customers.[22][23]
No new major versions of Adobe PageMaker have been released since, and it does not ship alongside Adobe InDesign.
Reception[edit]
BYTE in 1989 listed PageMaker 3.0 as among the 'Distinction' winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it 'is the program that showed many of us how to use the Macintosh to its full potential'.[24]
References[edit]
- ^Adams, Peter (16 March 2004). 'PageMaker Past, Present, and Future'. Archived from the original on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'Aldus Now Shipping Pagemaker for IBM PC'. InfoWorld. 9 (6). 1987.
- ^Edwards, Benj (3 May 2013). 'Born Apple: Six famous Windows apps that debuted on the Mac'. Macworld.
- ^Pfiffner, Pamela (11 September 2007). 'Opinion: Adobe's world'. Macworld.
- ^'A potted history of computers - the eighties'. www.hodgy.net.
- ^ abc'History of Aldus Corporation – FundingUniverse'. www.fundinguniverse.com.
- ^Keith Thompson: Pagemaker remains Chief Composer. In: InfoWorld Volume 8, Issue 23, 9 June 1986. ISSN0199-6649. Pages 39–40.
- ^Ken Freeze: Flexibility for PC Pros is Page Layout Strength. In: InfoWorld Volume 9, No. 12, 23 March 1987. ISSN0199-6649. Pages 42-44. - Review of PageMaker for the PC. Remarks about the Windows-bundle on p. 43, first column.
- ^Michael J. Miller: First Look. In: InfoWorld Volume 9, Issue 9, 2 March 1987. ISSN0199-6649. - Short comparison of PageMaker, Ventura Publisher and Harvard Professional Publisher, a modified version of Superpage by Bestinfo.
- ^Aldus Corp. Ships PageMaker 3.0 for the Macintosh. BusinessWire, 24 March 1988.
- ^Aldus Ships PC Version of PageMaker 3.0. Businesswire, 19 May 1988.
- ^The precise Windows version required was 2.03, which is the exact version number of the first publicly available Windows 2 release. cf. Windows Version History. Microsoft Knowledge Base, Document No. 32905. Last access date 22 July 2010.
- ^Stuart J. Johnston: Pagemaker 3.0 Adds Support for Style Sheets. In: InfoWorld, Volume 10, Issue 22, 30 May 1988, page 20.
- ^'Business - Aldus Releases Pagemaker Version - Seattle Times Newspaper'. community.seattletimes.nwsource.com.
- ^'PageMaker 7 System requirements'. Adobe. Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'How Adobe Products Support Windows Vista'(PDF). Adobe. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
- ^Matthew Honan (1 June 2001). 'Is 7 PageMaker's Lucky Number?'. Macworld.
- ^Ann Marsh (31 May 1999). 'Pride goeth before destruction'. Forbes. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^Gretchen Peck (September 2004). 'QuarkXPress versus Adobe InDesign'. Digital Output. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.
- ^Galen Gruman (17 May 2004). 'Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack'. Macworld.
- ^Jim Dalrymple (5 January 2004). 'Adobe discontinues PageMaker dev, offers plug-ins for InDesign'. Macworld.
- ^'FAQ for Adobe PageMaker Users'(PDF). Adobe. 2005. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^'InDesign CS2 Frequently Asked Questions'(PDF). Adobe. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^'The BYTE Awards'. BYTE. January 1989. p. 327.
External links[edit]
- ^https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/54/Aldus-Corporation.htmlReference for Business Company History Index Information Technology Aldus Corporation - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Aldus Corporation41 First Avenue SouthSeattle, Washington 98104-2871U.S.A.
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