Editing LaserWriter (section)

===Apple's development===
By 1982 [[Apple Computer]] was rumored to be developing laser printers.<ref name="libes198209">{{Cite magazine |last=Libes |first=Sol |date=September 1982 |title=Bytelines |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-09/page/n488/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=2024-12-30 |magazine=BYTE |pages=490-493}}</ref> [[Steve Jobs]] of Apple had seen the LBP-CX while negotiating for supplies of [[3.5" Floppy disk|3.5" floppy disk drives]] for the upcoming [[Mac (computer)|Apple Macintosh]] computer. Meanwhile, [[John Warnock]] had left Xerox to found [[Adobe Systems]] to commercialize [[PostScript]]  and [[AppleTalk]] in a laser printer they intended to market. Jobs was aware of Warnock's efforts, and upon his return to California he began convincing Warnock to allow Apple to license PostScript for a new printer that Apple would sell. Negotiations between Apple and Adobe over the use of PostScript began in 1983 and an agreement was reached in December 1983, one month before Macintosh was announced.<ref name="pfiff-2003" /> Jobs eventually arranged for Apple to buy $2.5 million in Adobe stock.

At about the same time, Jonathan Seybold ([[John W. Seybold]]'s son) introduced [[Paul Brainerd]] to Apple, where he learned of Apple's laser printer efforts and saw the potential for a new program using the Mac's [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] to produce PostScript output for the new printer. Arranging his own funding through a [[venture capital]] firm, Brainerd formed [[Aldus Corporation|Aldus]] and began development of what would become [[Adobe PageMaker|PageMaker]]. The venture capital coined the term "desktop publishing" during this time.<ref>David Wilma, [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7657 "Brainerd, Paul (b. 1947)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207044317/http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7657 |date=February 7, 2012 }}, HistoryLink, February 22, 2006</ref>