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 Desktop publishing 

Desktop publishing (DTP), consisting of graphic treatment systems that combine a personal computer and a page layout program (layout) and a printer or multifunctional device to create economic documents publicity for both large-scale publishing or output to small-scale distribution. It is a job that involves the application of software in editorial design.

In the translation process, DTP is an essential service that is offered to the customer, to design documents as they want them to create documents such as newsletters, brochures, books, among others.

In short, you can define the "desktop publishing" or graphical editing as the use of computers and software to create a visualization of ideas and information. Graphic editing documents can be computer printing or commercial printing, or for electronic distribution via PDF files, slide shows ("slide shows"), newsletters and web ". (from about.com)

Users create page layouts (models) with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements by using desktop publishing software like PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, RagTime, free software Scribus, Microsoft Publisher or Corel Ventura, Apple Pages and, to some extent, any sographics software or word processor that combines editable text with images.