Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing called the use of personal computer for writing, illustrating and layout of documents, which can then be high quality to print.
With desktop publishing you can create a document of any complexity, from simple black and white flyers to full colour magazines and books. Since the late 1980s desktop publishing systems gradually began to replace traditional methods in the production of printed products based on the division of labour between individual professionals and entire companies.
One person, who sits at a desktop PC, got the opportunity to perform various operations for writing and editing text, layout and typesetting of pages, preparing document to print and color separation.
Desktop publishing emerged in the mid 1980s thanks to four breakthroughs in computer technology. . The first and foremost of these was the creation of the personal computer Apple Macintosh with a graphical interface that allows you to see on the screen the font and the image as they will appear on paper, and use the mouse to select the symbol on the screen with the arrow cursor and enter the appropriate command.
The second achievement was inexpensive laser printer Apple LaserWriter, which provide print text and high resolution graphics. The third achievement was the creation of the Adobe Systems PostScript language, which allowed to send from your computer to the printer very accurate description of the printed page. And finally, the fourth achievement desktop publishing documents. The expression "desktop publishing" coined by Paul Brainerd, President of Aldus Corporation company and one of the developers of the software package PageMaker. First appeared in October 1985 PageMaker combines technology and Apple's PostScript and was an inexpensive system for the rapid creation of high quality layouts.
A Suite of programs for desktop publishing usually contains a text editor, a program for processing raster (bitmap) and vector (line) graphics and layout program. Typically, desktop publishers use a scanner to transfer printed images into digital code for subsequent gluing in the layout.