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Printing & Publishing · Recorded milestone

PostScript and digital fonts

Recorded year1984

Adobe's PostScript, by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, describes pages and fonts so they print sharply at any size.

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Built on

LaserRecorded · 1960enables
Digital typesetterRecorded · 1965enables
Personal computerRecorded · 1975enables

Led to

Desktop publishingRecorded · 1985enables
Vector drawing softwareRecorded · 1987enables
Digital colour pressRecorded · 1993enables
PDF documentsRecorded · 1993enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.