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Page layout might be prescribed to a greater or lesser degree by a house style which might be implemented in a specific desktop publishing template. There might also be relatively little layout to do in comparison to the amount of pagination (as in novels and other books with no figures). Typical page layout decisions include:
Desktop publishing produces primarily static print or digital media, the focus of this article. Similar skills, processes, and terminology are used in web design. Digital typography is the specialization of typography for desktop publishing. Web typography addresses typography and the use of fonts on the World Wide Web.
A style sheet is a feature in desktop publishing programs that store and apply formatting to text. [1] Style sheets are a form of separation of presentation and content: it creates a separate abstraction to keep the presentation isolated from the text data.
Page layout is the computation of the position of the paragraphs, tabs, sentences, words and letters of a text. This is done by desktop publishing software, typesetting software, and web browsers. These programs typically have dedicated layout routines to calculate the correct position of glyphs and embedded images.
Prepress is the term used in the printing and publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the creation of a print layout and the final printing. The prepress process includes the preparation of artwork for press, media selection, proofing, quality control checks and the production of printing plates if required.
Desktop publishing, or DTP, is the process of editing and layout of printed material intended for publication, such as books, magazines, brochures, and the like using a personal computer. Desktop publishing software, such as QuarkXPress , InDesign , or PageMaker is specifically designed for such tasks.
A paste-up for a poem from an edition of Alice in Wonderland, held in the Oxford University Press museum. Paste up is a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design desktop publishing programs. [1]
QuarkXPress is desktop publishing software for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. It runs on macOS and Windows . It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them.