Exploring the Connections Between Improved Technology—Workstation and Desktop Publishing and Improved Methodology—Document Databases

The new desktop and workstation publishing technology presents documenters with three hurdles to overcome. First, it has been difficult to identify a comprehensive organization to integrate all the relevant hardware and software products
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. Second, the marketing of this new technology has paid scant attention to the supporting skills in typography, design, layouts, etc. which alone make the new technology effective
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, Although considerable attention is now paid to overcoming these two hurdles, a third hurdle has not yet been overcome. Little attention has been paid to creating and understanding the publishing methodologies needed to drive this publishing technology to its fullest potential.