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Desktop publishing was invented in 1978, when the TeX program showed that publication-quality typesetting could be done on any normal business computer, and even long and complex jobs like books and journals could be produced from a standard desktop terminal. Prior to this, typesetting had been performed by mechanical or electro-mechanical means, or by extremely expensive mainframe or mini-computer based systems.
In 1985, desktop publishing became accessible to the masses, with the conjunction of Aldus Pagemaker (later acquired by Adobe), the Apple Macintosh, and Adobe Systems' PostScriptPostScript (PS is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. History The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans and Sutherland, a famous computer graph page description language, including its scalable fontIn typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. There are also typefaces of Ideograms and symbols (e. mathematical or map making) In its in Type 1 format.
When personal computers acquired graphical screens, synchronous typographical editing became possible (incorrectly known as " WYSIWYGWYSIWYG (pronounced "wizzy-wig") is an acronym for W hat Y ou S ee I s W hat Y ou G et, and is used in computing to refer to the technology that makes sure the image seen on the screen corresponds to what is printed out on paper. Today this is expected fo"), but these systems were initially used mainly for small-distribution publications such as club newsletterA newsletter is a publication generally about one main subject or topic that is of interest to its subscribers. This publication is then sent out at different periods of time, to inform the subscriber about the requested topic. Newsletters are a great ways. As these systems improved they became widely adopted throughout the professional publishingPublishing is the activity of putting information in the public arena. Although this can mean something as simple as making an announcement in a pub or market square, for some centuries it has usually referred to the business of producing books, magazines world -- presently, virtually all publishing is "desktop publishing". The superior flexibility and speed of desktop publishing systems has greatly reduced the lead time for magazine publication and allowed more elaborate layouts than would otherwise have been possible. Programmable, automated systems like LaTeXSee also latex a form of rubber or plastic. LATX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. It offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and DTP, especially n mean that long, repetitive, or highly-structured documents can be produced in a fraction of the time that it would take a manually-controlled system.
The Apple Macintosh, with historically superior graphics capabilities (particularly in the area of typographyTypography is art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. These applications can be phyiscal or digital. The two primary functions of typo), and a simple GUI, is highly popular in this application domain and remains one of Apple's core markets.