Using a desktop computer to produce high-quality printed output or camera-ready output for commercial printing. For simple layouts, desktop publishing may be accomplished with a word processor ...

The main advantage of desktop publishing is that it is frame based. Text and picture frames can be laid out on the page, and moved and resized as necessary.

A desktop publishing program such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. The capabilities of such a program go well beyond word processing and include such features as color control, precision ...

Combined with a Macintosh computer, Adobe Postscript technology, and Aldus PageMaker software, it made desktop publishing a reality. Apple’s earlier printer, the ImageWriter was a dot-matrix ...