ClickArt Personal Publisher is a simplified, Mac-like desktop publishing program. It was later purchased by Software Publishing Corporation and turned in to PFS:First Publisher, who then in turn sold it to Spinnaker Software where it became Easy Working Desktop Publisher

Common Ground, from No Hands Software, Inc, is a tool for creating portable, distributable electronic documents that can be viewed and printed anywhere while retaining the original formatting. Any word processor, spread sheet, or paint program, can be used as a document source without the need to redistribute anything other than the viewer. To create a Common Ground document, one simply prints their document to Common Ground's printer device, and it saves it.

CorelDRAW is a vector based drawing and illustration program. Tools like CorelDRAW enabled desktop publishers to create professional quality illustrations that printed and scaled without distortion. It is primarily a Windows application, but was ported to Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux, CTOS and OS/2. The earliest versions ran on Windows 2.

Deneba Canvas is a shape based drawing and illustration program for the PC and mac. Unlike other publishing programs of the time, Canvas combined the ability to use vector graphics and raster images. It could also function as a word processor.

Easy Working Desktop Publisher is a rebranded version of PFS:First Publisher. PFS:First Publisher and the other PFS titles were acquired from Software Publishing Corp by Spinnaker Software in 1991.

Expert Software's Personal Publisher is a rudimentary (crude), desktop publishing program. It does not use a graphical user interface, more closely resembling a document processing program. It was sold as a cheap low-end "budget" title - the sort of thing one might find on the shelf at a department store.

This is a very low-end budget desktop publishing program from your glorious low-end budget crap software publisher Expert Software.

Expert Stationery Shop is a budget-oriented graphics program that specialized in quickly and easily creating glitzy looking business related documents, such as letterhead, envelopes, fax cover sheets, business cards, signs, and awards. It features specialized clipart, extra TrueType fonts, extra text effects, and a logo creation tool.

Express Publisher, by Power Up Software Corporation. is a very easy to use but somewhat limited entry level-desktop publishing program.

Finesse is a basic, inexpensive Desktop Publishing Program marketed by Logitech alongside their Scanman scanners. It is designed for the Digital Research GEM platform, provides a WYSIWYG page layout, includes direct scanner support, can incorporate graphics from other applications, and supports Bitstream Fontware for high quality printing.

FontMinder, by Dennis Harrington & Costas Kistos, is a font management tool that streamlines the installation and archival of Windows TrueType and Adobe Type Manager fonts. It was targeted at the desktop publishing market, where users often had huge numbers of fonts. It could keep track of both installed and uninstalled fonts, organize fonts in to pack, and keep only the fonts currently in use installed so as to improve Windows performance. It was often used in conjunction with FontMonger, a tool to convert and tweak existing fonts.

Fontrix is a single-page typesetting program for the IBM PC and Apple II that prints high quality custom fonts on a dot-matrix printer. It includes a font editor, and number of font packs were available for it. It is not quite what one would consider a desktop publishing program, it would have competed more with sign making programs such as The Print Shop.

Bitstream Fontware is a tool that converts commercial vectored fonts in to formats for use with applications such as Aldus Pagemaker running under Microsoft Windows 2. The program itself is DOS-based but the fonts it generates are for Windows.

FontWorks is a utility that prints documents using high quality fonts on a dot-matrix printer. It was commonly sold as a companion product to AppleWorks on the Apple II. It can print sideways, it includes a number of high quality fonts, and includes a font editor.

FormWorx is a tool for quickly and easily creating high quality printed forms with your personal computer. It comes with a large library of customizable pre-made standard forms. With "Fill & File" you may enter data in to fields or populate multiple forms from a database. Earlier versions were available for DOS.

FrameMaker, originally from Frame Technology Corporation and later Adobe, is a professional document system for creating large, complex documents with highly structured layout. It was often accompanied by FrameReader.

FrameReader is a document viewer for Frame Technology/Adobe FrameMaker.

FreeHand is a vector based drawing program used to create illustrations. It is similar to CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator. Initially it offered more features and flexibility than illustrator. It was created by Altsys, sold through Aldus, then sold to Macromedia, and then finally was assimilated by Adobe. Later versions repositioned itself as a content creation system for the web through Flash. The final version was Freehand MX (version 11) in 2003.

GEM Desktop Publisher, from Digital Research, is a GEM 3.x based Desktop publishing program. It is not as sophisticated as Ventura Publisher. It uses a VMM (Virtual Memory Manager) in place of EMS/XMS, and requires a hard disk. It can be used with GEM Artline to provide illustrations.

GeoPublish was a rudimentary desktop publishing program for the Apple II and C64 that ran under GEOS. In 1993, Geoworks re-released their commercial standalone Geoworks Writer product as a shareware product reprising the name GeoPublish.

After the release of GeoWorks Pro, GeoWorks released stripped down versions that only included specific application. This included GeoWorks Desktop, GeoWorks Designer, and GeoWorks Writer.

Greetings, from Parsons Technologies, is a budget greeting card, poster, and banner generator for Macintosh and Windows. It includes a set of graphic clipart. Greetings is more free-form than most card creators and does not try to guide the user through each step. It was sometimes given away as a freebee. Not to be confused with Microsoft Greetings.

Halo DPE (Desktop Publishing Editor) was an attempt by Media Cybernetics to enter the desktop publishing market by shoehorning additional text processing abilities in to their Dr. Halo II product.

Harvard Professional Publisher is an advanced desktop publishing tools for DOS. It includes a powerful set of tools, supports complex layouts, can be used to create long documents, and can embed bitmapped images. It features a "WYSIWYG" graphical user interface, supports the use of a mouse, and supports LaserJet printers.

The original HiJaak program, from Inset Systems, is a powerful screen capture tool and image converter that can perform batch conversion between a large number of formats. The later Windows version are a powerful raster-to-vector graphics conversion and editing tool that can convert between a huge number of bitmap and vector file formats.