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Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed
material intended for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and
the like using a personal computer. Desktop publishing software, such as
QuarkXPress, is software specifically designed for such tasks. Such programs
do not generally replace word processors and graphics applications, but are
used to aggregate content created in these programs: text, bitmap graphics
(such as images edited with Adobe Photoshop, and vector graphics (such as
drawings/illustrations made with Adobe Illustrator).
Desktop publishing was invented in 1985, with the conjunction of Aldus
Pagemaker (later acquired by Adobe), the Apple Macintosh, and Adobe Systems'
PostScript page description language, including its scalable fonts in Type 1
format.
Until 1978 typesetting was performed by mechanical or electro-mechanical
means, or by extremely expensive mainframe or mini-computer based systems.
In that year the TeX program showed that publication-quality typesetting
could be done on any normal business computer, and even long and complex
jobs like books and journals could be produced from a standard desktop
terminal.
When personal computers acquired graphical screens, synchronous
typographical editing became possible (incorrectly known as "WYSIWYG"), but
these systems were initially used mainly for small-distribution publications
such as club newsletters. As these systems improved they became widely
adopted throughout the professional publishing world -- presently, virtually
all publishing is "desktop publishing". The superior flexibility and speed
of desktop publishing systems has greatly reduced the lead time for magazine
publication and allowed more elaborate layouts than would otherwise have
been possible. Programmable, automated systems like LaTeX mean that long,
repetitive, or highly-structured documents can be produced in a fraction of
the time that it would take a manually-controlled system.
The Apple Macintosh, with historically superior graphics capabilities
(particularly in the area of typography), and a simple GUI, is highly
popular in this application domain and remains one of Apple's core markets.
Desktop publishing software:
* QuarkXPress
* Adobe InDesign
* Adobe Pagemaker
* Xerox Ventura Publisher
* Adobe Framemaker
* Microsoft Publisher
* PagePlus
* LaTeX
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