23.01.2009 10:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

25 years of the Mac: The birth of desktop publishing

The publishing revolution that Apple developedJonathan Seybold, founder of the influential Seybold Seminars, says that when Steve Jobs showed him the Macintosh he was convinced it was the future of not only computing but also publishing. “It was very clear to me that the distinction between computing and information science and graphic arts would just go away,” he says. In the summer of 1984, Jobs called Jonathan Seybold. “Steve wanted to see me urgently,” Seybold recalls. “He said they had a deal with Adobe, they were signing a deal with Linotype, they had real fonts. I went to Cupertino and walked into this tiny room, and there stood Jobs and [Adobe co-founder John] Warnock with a Mac and a LaserWriter. He showed me what they were up to. I turned to Steve and said, ‘You’ve just turned publishing on its head. This is the watershed event.’ When I turned to John, he has this look on his face. He was just so happy. I could tell he was thi

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