Timeworks Publisher was a DTP program produced by GST in the United Kingdom. (In the US market, Timeworks Inc marketed the program as Publish It!.) Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed material intended for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and the like using a personal computer. ...
Publisher is notable as the first affordable DTP program. In appearance and operation, the software was a Ventura Publisher clone. However it was possible to run it on a computer without a hard disk. It originally operated using GEM Desktop on both the IBM PC and the Atari ST, although cut-down editions were also produced for the 8-bit Apple II platform. Later versions ran on Microsoft Windows. Later version of the GEM software contained on-the-fly-font scaling based on URW's BS format. Ventura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running DOS. The software was originally developed by Ventura Software, a small company founded by John Meyer, Don Heiskel and Lee Jay Lorentzen. ... GEM redirects here. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ...
Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed material intended for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and the like using a personal computer.
The phrase desktop publishing is attributed to Paul Brainerd, the founder of Aldus Corporation, as a marketing term that referred to the use of a computer on top of a desk for publishing and also alluded the desktop metaphor that Apple used to mimic a real desktop.
In 1986 Ventura Publisher was introduced on the PC moving infant DTP into the mainstream, this allowed DTP to be moved into the home market via GST's TimeworksPublisher on the PC and Atari ST but these systems were initially used mainly for small-distribution publications such as club newsletters.
Ventura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running DOS.
Ventura Publisher, while it has some text editing and line drawing capabilities of its own, was designed to interface with a wide variety of word processing and graphics programs, rather than supplant them.
TimeworksPublisher, this was a Ventura clone for the PC and Atari ST.
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