Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by jamesbooker83 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:19PM (#44514342)

You mention a British program. I do not know about the specific features you mention, but a British company called Serif used to make very highly-regarded DTP software.

I think they were bought by Corel

Edit: Serif are in the article, sorry

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by tinier_subsets on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:07PM (#44514762)

> I think they were bought by Corel

Serif (makers of Affinity suite) were bought by Canva last year. So far, they’ve honored their perpetual licenses and still offer them, but it seems like a perilous proposition given Canva’s audience and sales model.

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by masfuerte on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:54PM (#44514648)

Was it Xara?

Corel licensed their software for a while and released it as CorelXARA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by WillAdams on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:19PM (#44515286)

No, not Xara --- I finally managed to remember:

Cerilica (company name) Truism (product name).

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by whenc on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:12PM (#44515654)

The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler.

There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by WillAdams on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:39AM (#44519858)

That just makes me sadder that MacBasic wasn't available and more interested in trying RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi....

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