e87 – Desktop Publishing

This episode we cover the desktop publishing revolution, the Apple-led trifecta that kicked it off in the late '80s, and how it's evolved over three decades. For a holiday bonus, Ed talks about how he used a Mac to design and lay out his family's Christmas cards in the '90s. And finally, we wrap up the year with an announcement.

Follow Up

• Icras DataRover 840 ran Magic Cap
  • engadget product page
  • user manual PDF
• As the Apple Turns — in reruns!
• early version of "40 in 40"
  • Wonderful Tools (2019)

Desktop Publishing Hardware

• analog paste up
• The Mac is Not a Typewriter
• PostScript
  • Display PostScript
  • ~ATM
• list of Apple printers
  • LaserWriter
• Scanner

Cue the Imperial March.

Desktop Publishing Software

• Aldus PageMaker
  • version 1.0 on Macintosh Garden
• 1987 Macworld roundup
• FrameMaker
• QuarkXPress
  • on the Mac App Store
  • version 1.10 on Macintosh Garden
  • version 3.3
  • version 4.0
• consumer apps
  • Aldus Personal Press
  • Publish It! Easy

🎅🏻 Ed's Christmas Cards 🎄

1987 – traditional print

1994 – ClarisWorks [PT]

1997 – color separation

2003 – 3D model