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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

He is a former software entrepreneur from the personal computer era who founded an early desktop publishing software company, which he ran for a decade.

From New York Times Jul. 21, 2022

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

From Washington Post Oct. 14, 2021

What You See Is What You Get moni- tors were generally used for intensive word processing or desktop publishing.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau



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