What is Desktop publishing?
[[Image:Scribus-1.3-Linux.png|300px|thumb|[[Scribus]], an [[Open-source software|open source]] desktop publishing application]] '''Desktop publishing''' (also known as '''DTP''') is the creation of documents using [[page layout]] [[software]] on a [[personal computer]]. The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers. However the term implies a more professional-looking end result, with a more complex layout, than [[word processing]], and so when introduced in the 1980s was often used in connection with homes and small organisations who could not previously produce publication-quality documents themselves. == History == Desktop publishing began in 1985 with the introduction of [[MacPublisher]], the first [[WYSIWYG]] layout program, which ran on the original 128K [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] computer. The DTP market exploded in 1985 with the introduction in January of the [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[LaserWriter]] printer, and later in July with the introduction of [[Adobe PageMaker|PageMaker]] software from [[Aldus Corporation|Aldus]] which rapidly became the DTP industry standard software. Before the advent of desktop publishing, the only option available to most persons for producing typed (as opposed to handwritten) documents was a [[typewriter]], which offered only a handful of typefaces (usually fixed-width) and one or two font sizes. Indeed, one popular desktop publishing book was actually titled ''The Mac is not a typewriter''.<ref>Robin Williams, ''The Mac is not a typewriter: A style manual for creating professional-level type on your Macintosh'' (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 1990), 11.</ref> The ability to create [[WYSIWYG]] page layouts on screen and then [[printing|print]] pages containing text and graphical elements at crisp 300 [[dots per inch|dpi]] resolution was revolutionary for both the typesetting industry and the personal computer industry. Newspapers and other print publications made the move to DTP