One of the adventures of editing or writing a manual for an upcoming version of PageMaker was that Aldus was committed to using that new, unfinished version to produce the manual itself. I worked for Margy Kotick, an excellent supervisor who ran the editorial team in Aldus’s documentation department. It may well have been Ole Kvern who either suggested to me or suggested me to the people he worked with at Aldus neither of us can remember at this point. I don’t recall just how I ended up making the transition. And, also unlike Microsoft, Aldus was headquartered in the heart of the city. But Aldus, unlike Microsoft, actually made products that I wanted to use - PageMaker, primarily, and other applications used in publishing. For several years, I had been doing technical editing and sometimes writing on contract at Microsoft, across the lake in suburban Redmond, so it wasn’t a big jump from one software company to another.
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