PostScript and desktop publishing
PostScript y autoedición (PageMaker, LaserWriter)
- Date
- 1984-1985 · confidence high
- Place
- Adobe, Mountain View, and Aldus, Seattle, United States
- Credited to
- John Warnock and Charles Geschke (Adobe); Paul Brainerd (Aldus PageMaker)
- People
- 👤 Charles Geschke1939–2021👤 John Warnock1940–2023👤 Paul Brainerd1947–2026
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A device-independent page description language, combined with the Macintosh and the laser printer to lay out publications on a desktop. It put the printing press in anyone's hands.
What it led to
- The democratisation of publishing, graphic design and independent magazines
- PDF and the universal electronic document
- The transformation of the publishing and press industries
Built on
Made possible
- Chinese laser phototypesetting1979-1985
- PDF document format1993
- Photoshop
- digital typography