PostScript Released

Founded by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe Systems in 1984 unveiled PostScript, a groundbreaking page description language and computer graphics technology that played a pivotal role in the history of digital art and graphic design, used by artists such as Mark Wilson. PostScript empowered artists, designers, and publishers to create high-quality, scalable graphics and text for both print and digital media. This innovation helped popularize digital typography and graphic design, as it provided a standardized language for describing page layouts and graphics, ensuring consistency across different output devices. The release of PostScript impacted the graphic arts industry by simplifying the printing process and enabling the creation of complex, vector-based artwork, as demonstrated, again, by Mark Wilson. It pushed us toward the desktop publishing revolution, which would give rise to ever more accessible and sophisticated design tools.