Technology of Desktop Publishing - Research Article from Macmillan Science Library: Computer Sciences

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 6 pages of information about Technology of Desktop Publishing.

Technology of Desktop Publishing - Research Article from Macmillan Science Library: Computer Sciences

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 6 pages of information about Technology of Desktop Publishing.
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The core technologies at the heart of desktop publishing— the personal computer, WYSIWYG text processing, page description languages, and high- resolution laser printing—were developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. However, the first commercially successful application of desktop publishing hardware and software did not appear until the next decade, with the advent of the Apple Macintosh in 1985.

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