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

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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