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Throughout the course of history, we have identified certain eras or periods by their defining characteristics or advancements. For instance, in geologic time, we identify the Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic era, and so on. Following that same philosophy, the mid-1980s could be defined in the graphic arts industry as the Page-Layout era. PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Ventura Publisher, and many other applications arrived on the scene during that time, and the landscape was forever changed.
The introduction of PostScript by Adobe in 1984 was really the beginning of desktop publishing. PostScript enabled developers to write WYSIWYG applications capable of representing the ...