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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 or Adobe InDesign, 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, raster graphics (such as
images edited with Adobe Photoshop) and vector graphics (such as
drawings/illustrations made with Adobe Illustrator). When the material
is ready for publication the DTP software can output PostScript
or Adobe PDF which can be used by the commercial printers to produce
printing plates.
Desktop publishing
started in 1985, with the conjunction of Aldus Pagemaker (later
acquired by Adobe), the Apple Macintosh, and the $7000 Apple LaserWriter,
the first laser printer to use Adobe Systems' PostScript page description
language, including its scalable fonts in Type 1 format. The phrase
desktop publishing is attributed to Paul Brainerd, the founder of
Aldus Corporation, as a marketing term that referred to the use
of a computer on top of a desk for publishing and also alluded the
desktop metaphor that Apple used to mimic a real desktop.
In 1986 Ventura
Publisher was introduced on the PC moving infant DTP into the mainstream,
this allowed DTP to be moved into the home market via GST's Timeworks
Publisher on the PC and Atari ST but these systems were initially
used mainly for small-distribution publications such as club newsletters.
While this allowed many more people access to publishing their own
work it also gave DTP a bad reputation for a while as amateurs made
typographical mistakes that professional typesetters would never
make.
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