Desktop publishing involves using microcomputer software and printers to design page layouts combining text, graphics, and photos. It allows users to create materials like newsletters, brochures, and magazines. While originally used for printing, the same skills and software are now used for digital graphics and displays. The concept began in 1981 with the introduction of PageMaker software and LaserWriter printers, making the process affordable compared to previous commercial typesetting equipment.
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Desktop publishing involves using microcomputer software and printers to design page layouts combining text, graphics, and photos. It allows users to create materials like newsletters, brochures, and magazines. While originally used for printing, the same skills and software are now used for digital graphics and displays. The concept began in 1981 with the introduction of PageMaker software and LaserWriter printers, making the process affordable compared to previous commercial typesetting equipment.
Desktop publishing involves using microcomputer software and printers to design page layouts combining text, graphics, and photos. It allows users to create materials like newsletters, brochures, and magazines. While originally used for printing, the same skills and software are now used for digital graphics and displays. The concept began in 1981 with the introduction of PageMaker software and LaserWriter printers, making the process affordable compared to previous commercial typesetting equipment.
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Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Desktop publishing involves using microcomputer software and printers to design page layouts combining text, graphics, and photos. It allows users to create materials like newsletters, brochures, and magazines. While originally used for printing, the same skills and software are now used for digital graphics and displays. The concept began in 1981 with the introduction of PageMaker software and LaserWriter printers, making the process affordable compared to previous commercial typesetting equipment.
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Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) is a system or process for
designing, editing, and producing camera-ready documents, as newsletters, brochures, or magazines, using a microcomputer, special software, and a printer.Users create page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements using software such as Pagemaker, Adobe InDesign, the free Scribus, Microsoft Publisher, Apple Pages and (to some extent) any graphics software or word processor that combines editable text with images. The term "desktop publishing" is commonly used to describe page layout skills. However, the skills and software are not limited to paper and books. The same skills and software are often used to create graphics for point of sale displays, promotional items, trade show exhibits, retail package designs, and outdoor signs.
History
Desktop publishing began in 1981 with the introduction of PageMaker software
from Aldus and the LaserWriter printer from Apple Computer for the Apple Macintosh computer.
The term "desktop publishing" is attributed to Aldus Corporation founder Paul
Brainerd, who sought a marketing catch-phrase to describe the small size and relative affordability of this suite of products in contrast to the expensive commercial phototypesetting equipment of the day.
Often considered a primary skill, increased accessibility to more user-friendly
DTP software has made DTP a secondary skill to art direction, graphic design, multimedia development, marketing communications, administrative careers and advanced high school literacy in thriving economies
About the work area
When you create a publication, PageMaker opens a publication window that contains an empty page centered on the pasteboard.