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, or CorelDRAW). 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. Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles. ... A brochure is a flyer or other paper material distributed for the purposes of advertising. ... QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing (page layout) application for Mac OS and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ... Adobe InDesign CS splash screen Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application produced by Adobe Systems. ... Suppose the smiley face in the top left corner is an RGB bitmap image. ... Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. ... Steam Locomotive 7646 as a vector, originally Windows Metafile (converted to GIF for display on Wikipedia page). ... Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. ... Screenshot of CorelDRAW 11 CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. ... A postscript (from post scriptum, a Latin expression meaning after writing and abbreviated P.S.) is a sentence, paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. ... Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. ...

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. PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... The box for Mac OS X v10. ... Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) is a computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ... A postscript (from post scriptum, a Latin expression meaning after writing and abbreviated P.S.) is a sentence, paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of character designs. ... PostScript (PS) is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ...

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. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ventura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running DOS. The software was originally developed by Ventura Software, a small company founded by John Meyer, Don Heiskel and Lee Jay Lorentzen. ... Timeworks Publisher was a DTP program produced by GST in the United Kingdom. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST was a home/personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. ... A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. ...

Desktop publishing software also spread to lower-priced (8-bit) home computers, such as the Apple II. The 8-bit computers lacked the processing power and memory capacity to challenge the more powerful 16-bit platforms (Mac/PC/ST) and their more upscale publishing software. As if to acknowledge this disparity, 8-bit packages were collectively labelled Home Publisher or Personal Publisher software, with a market emphasis on non-professional, casual use. Among elementary school classrooms, the rudimentary Newsroom by Springboard Software was a popular journalism tool. The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ...

As the PC and Mac based publishing systems improved, they attracted the attention of the professional publishing world. The turning point was the introduction of Quark XPress 3.0 in the 1990s—currently, 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. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ...

Computer based typesetting using a personal computer started in 1978, when 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. Prior to this, typesetting had been performed by mechanical (Linotype and Monotype) or electro-mechanical means (photofilmsetting), or by extremely expensive mainframe or mini-computer based systems. The introduction of the Apple Macintosh and PageMaker allowed synchronous typographical editing using the graphical user interface; this system was commonly referred to as What You See is What You Get, WYSIWYG. Movable metal type Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other media. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby TEX, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for legacy applications, typically bulk data processing (such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and bank transaction processing). ... Introduction We all probably heard of supercomputers. ... WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig, wuzzy-wig or wissy-wig) is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a seamlessness between the appearance of edited content and final product. ...

The Apple Macintosh, with historically superior graphics capabilities (particularly in the areas of typography and colour management), and a simple GUI, is highly popular in this application domain and remains one of Apple's core markets. The box for Mac OS X v10. ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ... Gui is a French form of the male name Guy. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ...

The Atari TT030 was widely used for DTP with Calamus application. Calamus has its own technology called Softripping for WYSIWYG which uses the same routine for output to monitor as well as high density print devices. The Atari TT030 was the fastest system that Atari ever built. ... Calamus may mean: Sweet flag Acorus calamus, an herb Calamus (palm genus), a genus of rattan palms Calamus (fish genus), a genus of porgies (Sparidae) Calamus, Iowa Calamus, Wisconsin Calamus, a DTP application This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig, wuzzy-wig or wissy-wig) is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a seamlessness between the appearance of edited content and final product. ...

References

http://www.typotheque.com/site/article.php?id=39

See also

• IBM Selectric typewriter
• Netbook
• Printing
• Typography
• Word processing
• Database publishing
• Graphic design
• Typesetting

The IBM Selectric typewriter (occasionally known as the IBM Golfball typewriter) is the electric typewriter design that brought the typewriter into the electronic age starting in 1961. ... An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version of a book. ... The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Printing is an industrial process for mass production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ... Word processing, in its now-usual meaning, is the use of a word processor to create documents using computers. ... Database Publishing is used as an synonym in the area of databased automated mediaproduction or variable data publishing. ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... Movable metal type Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other media. ...

External links

• http://www.dtp-service.com/ventura/ueber_vp/chronicle.html
• EServer TC Library: Document Design
• About Desktop Publishing section of About.com. Includes tutorials, FAQs, classes, and discussion.
• Typo.cz - information on Central European typography and typesetting