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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 2: Designing and Desktop Publishing Tools

Unit 2: Designing and Desktop Publishing Tools Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

2.1 Meaning of Desktop Publishing (DTP)
2.1.1 Text
2.1.2 Images

2.1.3 Printing
2.1.4 Design
2.2 Tools for Designing
2.2.1 Basics of Photoshop
2.2.2 Basics of CorelDraw

2.2.3 Basics of Illustrator
2.2.4 Basics of PageMaker
2.2.5 Basics of InDesign

2.3 Summary
2.4 Keywords
2.5 Review Questions
2.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

z Elaborate upon the meaning of Desktop publishing (DTP)
z List the tools for designing
z Explain the basics of Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign

Introduction

Desktop publishing started in 1983 with a program developed by James Bessen at a community
newspaper in Philadelphia. That program, Type Processor One, ran on a PC using a graphics
card for a WYSIWYG display and was offered commercially by Best info in 1984. (Desktop
typesetting, with only limited page makeup facilities, had arrived in 1978–79 with the introduction
of TeX, and was extended in the early 1980s by LaTeX). The DTP market exploded in 1985 with
the introduction in January of the Apple LaserWriter printer, and later in July with the introduction
of PageMaker software from Aldus which rapidly became the DTP industry standard software.
The term “desktop publishing” is accredited to Aldus Corporation founder Paul Brainerd, who
wanted a marketing catch-phrase to describe the small size and relative affordability of this
suite of products in contrast to the expensive commercial phototypesetting equipment of the day.

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