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Desk top publishing

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Mastering Word Processing

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Desk top publishing (DTP) programs started to become available for PCs towards the end of the 1980s. It might be worthwhile, before looking at what is now available, briefly to examine the process that has been in use for years when any printed document has been produced. This applies equally well to newspapers, books, catalogues of goods or company reports.

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© 1993 Peter and Joanna Gosling

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Gosling, P., Gosling, J. (1993). Desk top publishing. In: Mastering Word Processing. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13051-1_6

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