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Adobe PostScript
- Year
- 1984
- Creator
- John Warnock, Charles Geschke
- Company
- Adobe Systems
- Location
- Room
- Homebrew ↗
Description
PostScript is a page description language that tells a printer how to draw the text, shapes, and images of a page. It is a full programming language, and the printer shown is an Apple LaserWriter II, a later model in the LaserWriter line.
Importance
John Warnock and Charles Geschke helped create a printing language called Interpress at Xerox PARC, but Xerox kept it inside the company. They founded Adobe in December 1982, and their team finished PostScript by the end of 1984. PostScript, the Apple LaserWriter, and Aldus PageMaker for the Macintosh started desktop publishing in 1985.
Interesting fact
In 2022 the Computer History Museum published an early version of the PostScript source code, which dates from February 1984.
Sources
- PostScript: A Digital Printing Press ↗Computer History Museum (David C. Brock) · 2022-12-01
- 1985 | Timeline of Computer History ↗Computer History Museum
- This Day in History: Aldus and Adobe Systems Finalize Merger ↗Computer History Museum · 1994-08-31
- Adobe Systems annual report on Form 10-K ↗U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · 1995
- File:Apple Laserwriter II.jpg ↗Wikimedia Commons