Desktop publishing

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of page layout software on a desktop computer to produce publishable documents. uncountable

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    (computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials wordnet

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""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.""

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