The placement of text and objects was extremely logical, thus making future editing of projects easy to manage. Pagemaker 6.5 was a wonderful desktop publishing application. What are we going to do when, because we upgraded our operating system, we are locked out of much of our old work? This will be, perhaps, the biggest problem in computing in the next decade as we move to the third generation of operating systems. However accessing old desktop publishing files is getting harder and harder, too. PDF formats have been questioned as smart, long-term formats for data. Much has been made about digital obscurification of JPG images and MP3 audio resources. The sun is setting on those old applications from the early 90s.
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