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desktop publishing

NOUN
producing publications with computer software
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When desktop publishing arrived in the 1980s, he was a graphic designer using triangles and rubber cement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"Graphic design has always developed in step with technological change - from letterpress to phototypesetting to desktop publishing and now Gen AI," she said.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

“I admired entrepreneurs, and desktop publishing had just become a possibility.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

I love the way it made desktop publishing possible for me, for McSweeney’s — we wouldn’t exist without these tools.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Importing or embedding in a word processing or desktop publishing program Once you are happy with the picture you import it as a graphic into your DTP or word processing program.

From Email 101 by Goodwin, John



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