PageStream (originally Publishing Partner) is a

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software package by Grasshopper LLC (United States) currently available for a variety of operating systems including

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, and

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History

The software was originally released under the name Publishing Partner for the

Atari ST Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's Atari 8-bit computers, 8-bit computers. The initial model, the Atari 520ST, had limited release in April–June 1985, and was widely available i ...

in 1986 by Soft-Logic Publishing Corporation. Publishing Partner 1.5 was released for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga platform in 1989. Version 1.8 followed in 1990 with an improved user interface and manual. Publishing Partner Professional 2.0, renamed to PageStream 2.0, was released for the Amiga in 1990 and Atari ST in 1991. This version added support for

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and for the Amiga, AGFA Compugraphic

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support. PageStream 2.2 for Amiga and Atari ST was released in 1992 with support for the HotLinks Editions publish-subscribe system which was bundled with the PageLiner text editor and BME bitmap image editor. PageStream 3.0 for Amiga was released in 1994. The application was entirely rewritten with a new user interface and many new features including colour separations, table of contents, index, nested chapters, Bézier curves, horizontal and vertical multi-page spreads, drop caps, hanging punctuation,

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colors, auto-kerning, auto-hyphenation, and

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scripting support. In 1996 PageStream 3.1 and 3.2 were released for Amiga and a pre-release of PageStream was made available for

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. Various extensions were released for PageStream including TextFX (vector text warp), Borders (vector borders for rectangles), and Gary's Effects (image processing filters). PageStream 3.3 was released for Amiga and Macintosh in 1997 with new fly-out tools for shapes, grids, and notes, as well as RTF export, a character panel, and improved chapter support. The Macintosh version included support for

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. PageStream 4.0 was released in 1999 with added support for Windows and Linux support was added in 2004. According to the official website, the latest version is PageStream 5.1.2, released September 5, 2022.

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