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Timeworks Publisher was a desktop publishing
Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either Publishing or small scale local Multifunction printer output and distribution....
 program produced by GST Software in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. (In the US market, Timeworks Inc marketed the program as Publish It!.)

Publisher is notable as the first affordable DTP program. In appearance and operation, the software was a Ventura Publisher clone. However it was possible to run it on a computer without a hard disk. It originally operated using Digital Research, Inc.
Digital Research

Digital Research, Inc. was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world....
's Graphical Environment Manager
Graphical Environment Manager

GEM was a windowing system created by Digital Research for use with the CP/M operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors....
 (GEM) Desktop, on the IBM PC
IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform ....
 and the Atari ST
Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home computer/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985....
 Later versions ran on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
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Timeworks Publisher was a desktop publishing
Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either Publishing or small scale local Multifunction printer output and distribution....
 program produced by GST Software in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. (In the US market, Timeworks Inc marketed the program as Publish It!.)

Publisher is notable as the first affordable DTP program. In appearance and operation, the software was a Ventura Publisher clone. However it was possible to run it on a computer without a hard disk. It originally operated using Digital Research, Inc.
Digital Research

Digital Research, Inc. was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world....
's Graphical Environment Manager
Graphical Environment Manager

GEM was a windowing system created by Digital Research for use with the CP/M operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors....
 (GEM) Desktop, on the IBM PC
IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform ....
 and the Atari ST
Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home computer/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985....
 Later versions ran on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
. Later version of the GEM software contained on-the-fly-font scaling based on URW's BS format. Timeworks Inc also produced Publish It, although for the 8-bit
8-bit

Eight-bit CPUs normally use an 8-bit data bus and a 16-bit address bus which means that their address space is limited to 64 KBs. This is not a "natural law", however, so there are exceptions....
 Apple II platform and finally the Macintosh.

Deskpress was a version aimed at the business market, while Press International was a late CD
Compact Disc

A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
 based multilingual windows version.

See also


  • PagePlus
    PagePlus

    PagePlus is a desktop publishing program developed by Serif europe. The first version was released in 1991 as the first commercial sub-?100 DTP package for Microsoft Windows....