I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 168. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Boys behind the bride who more recently replaced an author.
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Pages
Boys behind the bride (pages at a wedding) who more recently replaced an author (Pages replaced iBook Author for creating books for Apple’s store).
2: In purpose from a clay house to publication.
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Adobe InDesign
In purpose (in + design) from a clay house (an adobe, built of unfired clay bricks) to publication (its purpose).
3: Revolutionary Venetian printer created a leaf in classic times.
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Aldus PageMaker
Revolutionary (it brought the ‘desktop publishing revolution’) Venetian printer (Aldus Manutius, after whom the company was named) created a leaf (page maker) in classic times (introduced for ‘classic’ Macs in 1985).
The common factor
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They have all been leading publishing apps on Macs: PageMaker 1985-2004, Adobe InDesign 1999-, Pages 2005-.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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