Book Description

The articles in this special section examine the history of desktop publishing. This is the second in a series of articles on this topic. The first issue appeared in the Fall of 2018 (Vol. 40, Issue 3). The first series focused on the developments in the 1960s and 1970s for computer-driven printing and for the technologies that led, in the 1980s and 1990s, to the commercial growth of the desktop publishing industry. This second desktop publishing issue continues the story by describing how the technologies developed in the 1970s, both for the printing industry and at Xerox PARC, became the foundation for the growth of a number of desktoppublishing software companies, including Adobe, Aldus, Quark, Frame Technology and Ventura, as well as Apple’s seminal entry in the industry with the Macintosh, LaserWriter, PostScript (from Adobe), and Page Maker (from Aldus).-- Publisher abstract.