Thursday, January 29, 2009

What is Desktop Publishing?

Desktop publishing refers to designing and printing reports, brochures, letters , books and manual etc. It combine page elements such as text, art, photo for creating attractive looking documents that look like they came of a printer’s press.

FEATURES OF DTP

1.       Easy User Interface

2.       Defining and Applying Tags

3.       Using figures , pictures and clipart

4.       Automatic Page and Figure Numbering

5.       Caption for figures

6.       Header, Footer, Footnotes and Endnotes

7.       Automatic Table of contents and Index based on entries made in the text files

8.       Combining several files in a publication

COMMON DTP PROGRAMS

1.       PageMaker for DOS and Windows

2.       Photoshop

3.       Corel Draw

4.       Microsoft Publisher

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