The Format of Things to Come

But desktop publishing content was meant to be interchangeable and, therefore, it was uncontrollable. As fast as you could say "a Mac in every design studio," CEPS vendors re-engineered their systems to work with PostScript—the only common denominator. In reality, they were "working around" PostScript due to that data format (really a programming language) was never intended to carry imaging information to anything more sophisticated than a low-resolution desktop printer.