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Then term "desktop publishing" has become something of an anachronism. The desktop is where nearly all publishing happens these days, and that's been true for over thirty years. Ever since Apple's first LaserWriter shipped with Adobe's PostScript page description language, a revolution began that continues to this day. Over the years, the competition to become the top platform for desktop publishing was fierce and the lead changed several times, but one application rose to the top. Once considered the young upstart, Adobe's InDesign, now market- dominating program for desktop publishing is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. It's a great opportunity to look back at how the program helped us grow from print to digital and beyond. Throughout the 90's, PageMaker was Adobe's entry in the desktop publishing market. Acquired from Aldus, it was the Mac's gateway into publishing. It was popular with users who needed a publishing tool with all the basic functions, but it fell behind its main rival, QuarkXPress, losing much of its commercial customer base to the program with a more robust feature set designed for more complex documents with more rigorous publishing requirements. At the time it was acquired, Aldus had begun development on a new product, codenamed Shuksan, later renamed by Adobe, "K2," an even taller mountain. This debuted in 1999 as Adobe InDesign 1.0 with a feature set that showed QuarkXPress was clearly in its sights, going so far as