Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting, day 1 session 4: Technology in the 1980s
Session 3 of the Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting focuses on desktop publishing technology in the Day 1, Session 4 of the Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting focuses on desktop publishing technology in the 1980s. The session begins with a discussion of the motivation behind Donald Knuth’s development of TeX and the grassroots efforts behind its spread. Steve Kirsch then gives a brief history of FrameMaker and its earlier history and development period. An extended discussion focuses on PostScript, including a synopsis of its main technological innovations, relationship with key industry collaborators (such as Adobe, Apple, and ITC), and the differences between PostScript and competing approaches. The participants also discuss page description languages, various printer and font technologies, PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator. The session concludes with a discussion of the market factors that led to the shift toward desktop publishing, including changes within the printing and typesetting industries and reductions in the costs of memory and hardware.
Item Details
- Date
- 2017-05-22 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102738491
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
- Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 38 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X8209.2017
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Desktop Publishing Pioneer meeting collection