geoPublish is a discontinued desktop publishing program made by

Berkeley Softworks Berkeley Softworks, Inc., later GeoWorks Corporation, was an American software-development company founded by American computing engineer and former Mattel Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational corporation, multinational toy manufact ...

for their GEOS Operating System. geoPublish brought proper Desktop Publishing to the Commodore 64. With Left and Right Master Pages

page layout In graphic design, page layout is the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives. The high-level page layout involves deciding on the ...

work was simplified with the ability to work on the full page at once. Other features included autoflow text placement, the ability to create 16-page documents (with page numbering up to 256 to facilitate chaining documents), a suite of object-oriented drawing tools, and the ability to scale fonts from 4-192 points. geoPublish is capable of outputting

PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it c ...

page descriptions to

laser printers Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively charged cylinder called a "drum" to d ...

and is used for creating posters, newsletters, and even books.

Versions

A version for the

Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in ...

was released in 1986. It was ported to the

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in 1988. Version 2.0 was released in 1993.

References

1986 software Desktop publishing software Commodore 64 software Apple II software Apple II word processors {{digital-typography-stub