desktop publishing

combining of text and pictures for the purpose of printing (with the help of special equipment which includes powerful word processors and state of the art printers)

Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. Users create page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements using software such as QuarkXPress, 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. For small jobs a few copies of a publication might be printed on a local printer. For larger jobs a computer file can be sent to a vendor for high-volume printing.
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Noun
1. (computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials
(hypernym) publication, publishing
(classification) computer science, computing

(new spell.=Desktoppublishing) desktop publishing, combining of text and pictures for the purpose of printing

<text, application> (DTP) Using computers to lay out text and graphics for printing in magazines, newsletters, brochures, etc. A good DTP system will provide, among other things, facilities to fit text into irregular shapes in a variety of fonts and sizes.
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/gwp/dtp/dtp.html.
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(1995-01-05)