Technology Assessment of Desktop Publishing
Abstract
The desktop publishing technology is a relatively new technology. What has formally been done by page markup, either cut and paste or type- setting, can now be done by a single user at a workstation. The hand work, especially graphics, can almost be eliminated with current technology. The desktop publishing environment encompasses several technologies to include, word processing/text editing, graphics, document interchange, and printing. These technologies form the base for the generation and publishing of printed material. Desktop publishing technology can be discussed from the single user micro level to larger systems employing mainframe technology. Most current desktop publishing systems fall between these two realms, whereas past systems were almost always mainframe based. There are two supporting areas to desktop publishing that will also be examined in this assessment. Those areas are document interchange and printing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA217407
Entities
People
- P. T. Hengst