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Brief Introduction to Desktop Publishing |
Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Prior to the advent of desktop publishing software, people always finished the related tasks manually. For smoothly accompanying their assignment, a variety of talents will be involved including those who are good at graphic design and prepress tasks. Desktop publishing software eases the complexity and makes people work more efficiently. I. Simple definition You might think the definition of desktop publishing on wikipedia is a little difficult for beginners or laymen. Here we make it easy and simple. Desktop publishing (DTP) refers to the process of taking advantage of the computer and specific software to blend mixed-media elements like text, graphics, and photos into printable documents, for example, books and newsletters. II. Desktop publishing tools * Adobe FrameMaker - Document processor used to produce and manipulate large structured documents * Adobe InDesign - Software application perfect for producing any document that requires some creative layouts, for example, posters and newspapers * Adobe PageMaker - Full-featured desktop publishing program for Windows and Macintosh * CorelDRAW - Vector graphics editor * Microsoft Office Publisher - DTP application from Microsoft * PageStream - DTP software package * QuarkXPress - Application used to create and edit complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment * Ready,Set,Go - Software package for DTP * Scribus - Software for flexible layout and typesetting and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment * Serif PagePlus - DTP program developed by Serif * More... III. Advantage * Save time, money and energy * Easy to make changes * Offer more methods for effective idea communication * Allow user to have total control over the final product * Its frame based capability allows user to have easier control over text and picture frames Desktop publishing plays an important role in the society today, especially multilingual desktop publishing. And DTP software allows us to get this job done much easier and more efficient than before. Thanks to their inventors! Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
Golden View's marketing specialist. Golden View, which was founded in 1996, is one of the famous professional translation and localization service providers. The company specializes in website translation, interpreting, multimedia translation, document translation, software localization and multilingual DTP.
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