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'''Timeworks Publisher''' ('''Publish It!''' in the U.S.) is an early-1990s desktop publishing program for Windows published by Timeworks, released originally in the U.K. It used the extension .dtp, but its files were not compatible with [[PageMagic]] by NEBS, even though that program used the same extension. If you run the two words of the U.S. program title together, you might wind up with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem Scunthorpe problem] with dirty-word filters. | '''Timeworks Publisher''' ('''Publish It!''' in the U.S.) is an early-1990s desktop publishing program for Windows published by Timeworks, released originally in the U.K. It used the extension .dtp, but its files were not compatible with [[PageMagic]] by NEBS, even though that program used the same extension. If you run the two words of the U.S. program title together, you might wind up with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem Scunthorpe problem] with dirty-word filters. | ||
− | One way to distinguish Timeworks/Publish It! files from the similarly-named PageMagic files is that file detectors such as [[DROID]] may detect PageMagic files as OLE2 ([[Microsoft Compound File]]), while Timeworks/Publish It! files are not | + | GST Technologies produced or licensed the DTP product to many other distributors, but all used the .DTP extension. Other notable titles include: PressWorks, Greenstreet Publisher, Compuworks Publisher, etc.<ref>http://www.bmsoftware.com/greenstreetpublisher3.htm</ref> |
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+ | ==File Identification== | ||
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+ | One way to distinguish Timeworks/Publish It! files from the similarly-named PageMagic files is that file detectors such as [[DROID]] may detect PageMagic files as OLE2 ([[Microsoft Compound File]]) container, while Timeworks/Publish It! files are not containers and will be identified as a signature if one exists. | ||
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+ | Early .DTP files are simple binary files with headers beginning with "{{magic|44 54 50 49}}" "DTPI" and ending with "{{magic|45 4F 44 46}}" "EODF". Later files used the OLE2 ([[Microsoft Compound File]] container, but used the same binary signature within the container. | ||
== Sample files == | == Sample files == | ||
* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/publish.dtp Sample Publish It! file] | * [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/publish.dtp Sample Publish It! file] | ||
+ | * [https://archive.org/download/PUBSUITE99/PUBSUITE99.ISO/Documents%2FAdvertisement%2FFASTFOOD.DTP Greenstreet Publisher 3 Sample DTP file] | ||
− | == | + | ==Links== |
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeworks_Publisher Timeworks Publisher (Wikipedia)] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeworks_Publisher Timeworks Publisher (Wikipedia)] | ||
+ | * [[Wikipedia:GST_Computer_Systems|GST Technologies]] | ||
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+ | == References == | ||
+ | <references/> |
Revision as of 17:27, 25 July 2019
Timeworks Publisher (Publish It! in the U.S.) is an early-1990s desktop publishing program for Windows published by Timeworks, released originally in the U.K. It used the extension .dtp, but its files were not compatible with PageMagic by NEBS, even though that program used the same extension. If you run the two words of the U.S. program title together, you might wind up with a Scunthorpe problem with dirty-word filters.
GST Technologies produced or licensed the DTP product to many other distributors, but all used the .DTP extension. Other notable titles include: PressWorks, Greenstreet Publisher, Compuworks Publisher, etc.[1]
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File Identification
One way to distinguish Timeworks/Publish It! files from the similarly-named PageMagic files is that file detectors such as DROID may detect PageMagic files as OLE2 (Microsoft Compound File) container, while Timeworks/Publish It! files are not containers and will be identified as a signature if one exists.
Early .DTP files are simple binary files with headers beginning with "44 54 50 49
" "DTPI" and ending with "45 4F 44 46
" "EODF". Later files used the OLE2 (Microsoft Compound File container, but used the same binary signature within the container.