“The Origins of PostScript”, John E. Warnock2018-07 (CS, typography; backlinks)⁠:

Introduced by Adobe Systems in 1984, PostScript was a unique device-independent approach to describing the appearance of a printed page, for the first time allowing pages to be printed on a range of devices of different resolutions. 1984^–₃1987_37ya, the use of PostScript by printer manufacturers grew to the point that it became the de facto standard.

[Keywords: Adobe Systems, PostScript, desktop publishing, Evans & Sutherland, CAORF (Computer Aided operations-research Facility), Xerox PARC, history of desktop publishing, Interpress, font technology]

…PostScript described pages in a device-independent manner so that a page could be printed on a wide range of devices of different resolutions. Other solutions at that time were markup or other declarative descriptions. 1984^–₃1987_37ya, the use of PostScript by printer manufacturers grew to the point that it became the de facto standard. This article describes the 11-year sequence of events leading to the announcement of the language.

See Also:

• The Wheel of Reincarnation

• The Monotype 4-Line System for Setting Mathematics

• The rise and fall of Adobe Flash: Before Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it

• Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community: Typefaces that be freely used and modified give others a chance to hone their craft—and share valuable feedback

• The Printing of Mathematics: Aids for Authors and Editors and Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford

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