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10 Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn’t Make It (dtp) (tedium.co)
8 points by ohjeez 49 days ago | 7 comments
  • boofar 45 days ago
    There was a Swedish Commodore magazine that did all of their DTP in Publishing Partner Master on Amiga... for a couple of years, until they silently switched to Macs. :)
  • rbanffy 47 days ago
    I miss Publish It from that list. It was impossibly good on the Apple //e
    • ohjeez 46 days ago
      It leaves out Framemaker, which was... a thing.
      • bmonkey325 44 days ago
        FrameMaker never went away. It was just subsumed by a sea of Microsoft Word being used inappropriately. Where I work I think we last updated during the pandemic.

        https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/framemaker.html

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    • bmonkey325 46 days ago
      Yes. Newsroom by springboard was popular in Toronto as I was heading to university in mid 80s.
  • KODust 48 days ago
    > Quark, a desktop publishing behemoth of the ’90s that is still very active today

    I dunno man. I guess it still exists, but Quark self-immolated at least in part by failing to port to Mac OS X early on. The rumor was they had outsourced their engineering team to India around the time Mac OS X was announced, which was very clearly not the right time for a new set of developers to take over an existing sourcebase.

  • classichasclass 43 days ago
    Newsroom also had ports for the C64 and, later on, the Atari (after a write-in campaign). I think the C64 version was used more than the Apple II original, at least in my experience; our local users group did their newsletter in it. There was also Newsroom Pro, but only on the PC.

    (my article) https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/printing-real-headline-n...

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