A Quark’s Tale

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In 1981, when Quark was originally founded, the publishing world had no idea of the momentous changes just around the corner; nor did computing, or the printing industry. We had the Xerox Star to tease us (and Xerox), and we had Apple faffing about trying to sell Apple IIIs, but Adobe had yet to arrive. It wasn’t until three years later that the ingredients of the desktop publishing revolution came together: layout software, a computer with a graphical user interface and a page description language to image text and graphics in a single data stream. Within a few short years and with many casualties along the way, desktop publishing was making serious inroads into the professional production market. And Quark was leading the charge. ...cont´d

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