PageMaker was released in July1985, and relied on Adobe's PostScript page description language. For output, it used the Apple LaserWriter, a Postscript laser printer. PageMaker for the PC was released in 1986, but by then the Mac was already the de facto DTP platform, with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop completing the suite of graphic design software.
Aldus went on to offer its Illustrator-like program, FreeHand, licensed from Altsys (who also developed Fontographer). Into the 1990sQuarkXPress steadily won ground from PageMaker, and it seemed increasingly odd that Adobe—who had created PostScript, so vital to the working of DTP—still did not offer its own page layout application. This was resolved in September1994 when Aldus merged with Adobe (a deal in which Freehand went to Macromedia). Today, Adobe's competition to QuarkXPress is Adobe InDesign, while PageMaker remains a part of its product offering for the low_end desktop publishing market.
Aldus also challenges the district court's grant of summary judgment, claiming that a genuine issue of material fact exists as to whether Lawrence/XLS caused Aldus "property damage" within the terms of the policies issued to Lawrence/XLS by the insurers.
Aldus claims that the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over it because Aldus does not have sufficient contacts with California to subject it to jurisdiction in that state.
Aldus has not shown that litigation in California has been or would be "so gravely difficult and inconvenient" as to render the court's exercise of personal jurisdiction unreasonable.
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