The articles in this special section focus on the emergence and growth of desktop publishing. This is the third special issue that is devoted to the history of desktop publishing. The first issue appeared in the fall of 2018, and was about the developments in the 1960s and 1970s of computer-driven printing and the technologies that led to the commercial growth of the desktop publishing industry. The second issue, in the fall of 2019, continued the story by describing how those technologies, developed in the 1970s particularly at Xerox PARC, became the foundation for the growth of major desktop-publishing software companies, with articles by founders of Adobe, Aldus, Quark, Frame Technology, and Ventura. The prediction that computers would end the era of print publication goes as far back as Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex. The first two Annals special issues on desktop publishing have documented what happened instead, as computing became central to publishing. They were primarily about the technology and the companies that created the digital publishing industry and made it so popular. We continue that documentation in this issue, and also have two articles on the history of font design, which is central to all publishing, both traditional “hot-metal” and digital.

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桌面出版，第 3 部分

本专区的文章重点关注桌面出版的出现和发展。这是关于桌面出版历史的第三期特刊。第一期出现在 2018 年秋季，是关于 1960 年代和 1970 年代计算机驱动打印的发展以及导致桌面出版行业商业增长的技术。2019 年秋季的第二期继续讲述这些技术，这些技术在 1970 年代特别是在施乐 PARC 开发，如何成为主要桌面出版软件公司发展的基础，其中包括 Adob​​e、Aldus 创始人的文章、夸克、框架技术和文图拉。计算机将结束印刷出版时代的预测可以追溯到 Vannevar Bush 1945 年的 Memex。随着计算成为出版的核心，关于桌面出版的前两期《年鉴》特刊记录了所发生的事情。它们主要是关于创造数字出版业并使其如此受欢迎的技术和公司。我们在本期继续该文档，还有两篇关于字体设计历史的文章，这是所有出版的核心，包括传统的“热金属”和数字。