from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
desktop publishing
desktop publisher
DTP
<text, application> (DTP) Using computers to lay out text and
graphics for printing in magazines, newsletters, brochures,
etc. A good DTP system provides precise control over
templates, styles, fonts, sizes, colour, paragraph formatting,
images and fitting text into irregular shapes.
Example programs include {FrameMaker}, {PageMaker}, {InDesign}
and {GeoPublish}.
(http://cs.purdue.edu/homes/gwp/dtp/dtp.html).
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.text.desktop.
(2005-03-14)