desktop publishing
Americannoun
noun
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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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