desktop publishing

English

Noun

desktop publishing (uncountable)

1. (computer graphics) The use of page layout software on a desktop computer to produce publishable documents.
   • 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:

     "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."

Synonyms

• DTP (abbreviation)

Translations

use of page layout software

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桌面出版 (zhuōmiàn chūbǎn), 桌上出版 (zhuōshàng chūbǎn), 桌上排版 (zhuōshàng páibǎn)

• Finnish: tietokonetaitto
• French: publication assistée par ordinateur (fr), PAO (fr)
• Greek: επιτραπέζια έκδοση (el) f (epitrapézia ékdosi)
• Hungarian: (asztali) kiadványszerkesztés
• Irish: foilsitheoireacht deisce f
• Japanese: 卓上出版 (takujō shuppan), デスクトップパブリッシング (desukutoppu paburisshingu)
• Portuguese: editoração eletrônica f (Brazil), diagramação eletrônica f (Brazil), paginação eletrónica f (Portugal), edição eletrónica f (Portugal)