Paul Brainerd, businessman and philanthropist who coined desktop publishing, which revolutionized print publication, has died at 78.
Originally from Medford, Ore., Brainerd earned a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from the University of Oregon and went on to receive a Master of Science in journalism from the University of Minnesota.
Brainerd co-founded Aldus, which would later produce PageMaker, a desktop publishing software program. Brainerd is said to have created the term desktop publishing, referring to the creation of documents using dedicated software on a desktop computer. This software could generate page layouts and text content, and was widely used by print publications like newspapers, and would later be used for digital content. Aldus would later merge with Adobe in 1994 in an all-stock deal valued at $525 million, or over $1 billion today…