Adobe Acquires Aldus Corporation

Adobe's acquisition of Aldus brought PageMaker and FreeHand into its portfolio. While PageMaker was a DTP pioneer, it was already showing its age, setting the stage for the later development of InDesign to compete with QuarkXPress.

Significance

This acquisition, though initially focused on PageMaker, ultimately highlighted Adobe's need for a truly modern page layout application, directly catalyzing the 'Project K2' that would become InDesign.