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What is Desktop Publishing Software?
Desktop publishing software provides the tools to turn media files into publishable layouts and templates that can be uploaded, exported and printed. Compare and read user reviews of the best Desktop Publishing software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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hyper Digital Asset Management Server
hyperCMS Content Management Solutions
The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise -
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Marq
Marq
Marq (formerly Lucidpress) is a design & brand templating platform that empowers non-designers in your company to create and distribute marketing collateral all on their own (without going off brand). Lockable templates protect your brand while allowing colleagues to make small design tweaks and customizations, easing the workload off your creative team. Say goodbye to rogue branding forever with Marq -- the brand templating platform trusted by over 7 million users worldwide. Get high-quality printed materials shipped straight to your location with our web-to-print features. Or, reach your audience even quicker with Marq's direct mail delivery. Whether its social media posts or printed brochures, our cloud-based platform helps your business manage the brand experience from start to finish.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Adobe InDesign
Adobe
InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. Create beautiful graphic designs with typography from the world՚s top foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. Quickly share content and feedback in PDF. Easily manage production with Adobe Experience Manager. InDesign has everything you need to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters, interactive PDFs, and more. Design everything from stationery, flyers, and posters to brochures, annual reports, magazines, and books. With professional layout and typesetting tools, you can create multicolumn pages that feature stylish typography and rich graphics, images, and tables. Create digital magazines, eBooks, and interactive online documents that draw people in with audio, video, slideshows, and animations. InDesign makes it easy to manage your design elements and quickly deliver immersive experiences in any format.Starting Price: $20.99 per month -
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft
Collaborate with others without ever leaving your document or jot down an idea with your digital pen. Need to publish a newsletter or document for others to see? Easily transform your Word document into a webpage. Collaborate with others across the globe. Translate documents in your non-native language with just a click. Get creative by inserting 3D models directly in your document. Have your content read back to you with Learning Tools and easily catch any mistakes. Finding great sources just got simpler. Use Researcher to read articles in the task pane so you can stay focused on your writing. When you’re brushing up your document, it’s good to see the big picture. The Editor Overview Pane helps you find and fix any proofing issues.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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VistaCreate
VistaCreate
VistaCreate (formerly Crello) is a graphic design platform where anyone can quickly create engaging projects for any industry or occasion —design skills optional. Crello joined the Vista group of companies and changed its brand name to VistaCreate. Start with one of 50,000 professionally designed templates that are already preformatted and customizable. Easily edit, resize, remove background from images. Edit video content and add sounds and music to create multi-dimensional visuals. Upload your own photos or use VistaCreate Unlimited library of 50M+ free media files including premium images, videos, vectors, backgrounds, and clipart. Easily brand your content with Media Kit functionality. With VistaCreate, everyone can produce designs that look like they took hours, in minutes. VistaCreate is also available on web, iOS and Android devices.Starting Price: $0 -
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Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more. Now you can take your ideas to new places with Photoshop on the iPad, draw and paint with Adobe Fresco, and design for 3D and AR. Join our global creative community — and make something better together. Explore your creativity with desktop and mobile apps including Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere Rush. Access thousands of fonts for your projects right within your Creative Cloud apps. Showcase and discover creative work. Save, browse, and share assets from libraries right inside your Creative Cloud apps. Create and customize your own portfolio website. Get 100GB of cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration. Work better together with tools for sharing, reviewing, and commenting. Photography, video, design, UI and UX, 3D and AR, and social media. Creative Cloud has everything you need, wherever your imagination takes you.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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Salasil Desktop
Salasil Solutions
Salasil Desktop a video authoring & broadcasting screen recorder tool ( A Desktop Application working on Windows PCs & laptops) gives you the ability to record computer’s screen, webcam & voice, you will also be able explain your ideas better without the need for technical knowledge using your personal computer and that’s because of Salasil Desktop’s simple annotation toolkit which contains writing tools, presentation tools. Which is compatible with all file formats (PDF, PP, Word, Excel… etc) or web page as well. On the other hand; with Salasil Desktop recorder; you will be able to go live on multi social media platforms simultaneously. We found that instructors, teachers & help-desk officers are facing huge problems with making a video & share it in easy way, since the traditional way of making videos are consuming time, money & require technical background from them. We developed a software for who are looking elegant authoring tool with simple UX & UIStarting Price: $7/Month/User -
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Adobe Express
Adobe
Adobe Spark is now Adobe Express, and it’s better than ever. Quickly and easily make standout content from thousands of beautiful templates with the all-new Adobe Express. Available on web and mobile. Adobe Express makes it easy to get started with thousands of beautiful templates, plus assets for social media content, logos, and more. Feel like you’ve got the help of a trusted designer in your corner with the entire Adobe Stock* royalty-free photo collection plus a full library of Adobe Fonts at your fingertips. Make anything you need, all in one place, with intuitive tools that let you remove backgrounds, animate text, add your brand, and so much more. With just a few taps you can resize content for any social media site and add Adobe Photoshop quality effects in a snap. Design flyers, TikToks, resumes, and Reels with the new, all-in-one Adobe Express. Stand out with amazing artwork generated by Adobe Firefly AI. Create easier. Dream bigger.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft
Create polished, professional layouts without the hassle. Precisely lay out and style text, pictures, borders, calendars, and more. In Publisher everything you add stays exactly the way you’ve designed it, in print, online, or in an email. Easily design unique, specialized materials for any purpose. Create everything from simple greeting cards and labels to professional newsletters and marketing materials using Publisher’s wide range of pre-designed templates. Publish in the way that suits your audience best. Share pixel-perfect printouts, send professional-quality email publications, or export to industry-standard non-editable formats.*Starting Price: $6.99 per year -
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RebelMouse
RebelMouse
RebelMouse is the always-modern SaaS CMS that helps marketers and publishers grow organic traffic by breaking from the conventional approach of legacy web technology. Writers, editors and designers need their content to rank across channels and social platforms. Businesses need traffic and content creators need a simple experience. Products like SquareSpace offer ease of use, and WordPress offers flexibility, but RebelMouse offers both, with better performance, and more traffic. Experienced WordPress and Drupal developers are able to create high-performing sites on RebelMouse with far less effort to build and to manage. RebelMouse is the only enterprise-ready SaaS platform powerful enough for a media company, but also easy enough to use out of the box for any marketing team that just wants to start generating more traffic. We are also a majority-female diverse and inclusive organization. -
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Smore
Smore
Create beautiful, engaging school newsletters, updates and announcements. Super fast. Smore comes with everything you need to create gorgeous, interactive newsletters. Keep everyone in the loop with a weekly newsletter to parents, community members, and faculty. Use Smore to create one central, updated place for PD resources and opportunities. During periods of remote learning, send schedules, resources, and assignments via newsletter, weekly or daily. Share what your class is up to. Keep parents and guardians informed and updated.Starting Price: $79 per year -
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QuarkXPress
Quark Software
QuarkXPress – The Ultimate AI-Powered Design and Desktop Publishing Software QuarkXPress is a powerful desktop publishing software trusted by creative professionals, businesses, and publishers worldwide. With its intuitive interface, cutting-edge features, and seamless workflow, QuarkXPress enables users to create high-quality layouts, graphics, and digital publications with precision and efficiency. What Makes QuarkXPress Stand Out? AI-Powered Text Editing with Quarky AI Assistant* AI-Assisted Image Clipping with Remove Background* Create Multiple Font Collections Import & Export IDML Files Enhanced PDF Accessibility Direct In-App Image Editing Improved Tables & Styles Flex Layouts for Digital Publishing Seamless Print & Digital Design WorkflowStarting Price: $279 per year -
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Swift Publisher
BeLight Software
Swift Publisher is a super-intuitive, all-purpose page layout and desktop publishing app for Mac. It doesn’t matter what kind of document you need to layout and print — from brochures and calendars to CD labels and eye-catching, professional business cards — Swift Publisher covers it all.Starting Price: $19.99/one-time -
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Vellum
Vellum
Classic touches like custom drop caps and ornamental flourishes are included in both print and ebook editions. So whether your readers prefer a paperback or a Paperwhite, they will see a beautiful, professionally-formatted book. Use Vellum to get the most out of ebooks. Assemble box sets of a series. Produce advance copies for early feedback. Connect with links to Facebook and Twitter. Add store links and help readers buy your next book. Generate ebooks for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and more. And with Vellum’s instant turnaround, you can do it all on your schedule. Page numbers. Margins. Headers. Font. Line spacing. All of the setup that can take hours elsewhere happens automatically with every book you create. And Vellum goes beyond the basics to prevent widows, balance page spreads, and avoid short pages — all automatically. You’ll have a book that looks like it took days to create …in minutes.Starting Price: $199.99 -
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Boxshot 5
Appsforlife
Product and packaging mockup software with 50+ customizable shapes, realistic rendering, animation, scripting, import, export and more. Boxshot is your virtual photo studio for 3d models. It helps you visualizing books, boxes, packaging, display stands, cans, bottles — anything. Boxshot comes with 50+ built-in shapes than can be decorated with artwork, resized, configured and composed to make a perfect scene that you can then render so realistically that customers may think they are seeing a photo of the actual product. Boxshot features a large selection of customizable shapes: software boxes, hardbound and paperback books, magazines, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray boxes, cards, cans, mugs, bags, and much more. Almost all the shapes are customizable so you can adjust them for your design. Boxshot can resize shapes according to your graphics. You don't need to adjust your images for our shapes — Boxshot adjusts the shapes for you! -
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Template.net
Template.net
Ready-Made Templates. Beautifully Designed, Easily Editable Templates to Get your Work Done Faster & Smarter. Simply Browse, Search, Save & Download our Easy to use Templates. At Template.net we create Premium Designs, Documents for our users. We are a Dedicated Global Team of Coders, Artists, Designers, Lawyers, Marketers & Writers. We are working towards one goal of making the world’s work get done Faster and Smarter! Simple! Why start from Scratch, when you can get your work done faster with our Huge Collection of 100,000+ Beautifully designed, Instantly downloadable, Professionally designed, Ready-Made Templates which are easily Editable, Shareable & Printable. Simply Browse, Search, Save & Download our Easy to use Templates. We Standardize Your Business to help you Create Brand Identity and Visibility, helping you Build Bigger, Better and Faster Business Processes and Improve Productivity through better Organization and Better communication. You Save Time, Money and Frustration.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Xara Designer Pro
Xara
Xara Designer Pro is our flagship product and includes all the illustration, photo editing, DTP and web design features of photo & graphic designer, web designer premium and page & layout designer. It is a single integrated solution for all your creative work, for print and the web. Here are just some of the reasons why we believe Xara Designer Pro stands out from the competition, making it a great choice for all your graphic design needs. Xara Designer Pro is our flagship all-in-one creative title. In one completely integrated and consistent interface it provides all the tools for a range of graphic design tasks that would normally require three or more separate ‘suite’ programs: illustration, photo editing, advanced page layout, web graphics, websites and more. Xara Designer Pro is based on one of the world's most sophisticated, high performance vector rendering engines.Starting Price: $14,99 -
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FlowPaper
Devaldi
Bring your static PDF content to life. Responsive digital publishing. The web PDF viewer and digital publishing suite. Convert your catalog, brochure or magazine into a beautiful responsive online publication. Convert PDF documents into interactive online viewing experiences. This web based PDF viewer is specialized in magazines, catalogs, brochures and other high quality print documents. It brings your publications online while preserving the original document layout. Embed this viewer to provide a beautiful seamless viewing experience for your visitors as they flip through your publication. Convert your PDF catalogs to HTML5 to reach maximum readability, speed and text sharpness. Don't let your website visitors wait for large PDF or image files to download, this viewer optimizes your documents for online use and minimizes loading time. The viewer provides both slide and flipbook modes as viewing experiences. -
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Venngage
Venngage
Venngage is the simple design platform for bringing your dull data, dry documents and complex communications to life. Using our engaging visual communication templates, created by our expert in-house designers, Venngage users can easily create powerful visuals; no design experience required. Our easy-to-use drag and drop editor, alongside some helpful articles, videos and courses, will have you creating dazzling designs in minutes. Venngage has a wide range of templates perfect for business and professional communications including infographics, charts, reports, diagrams, mind maps, presentations, and more so that you can impress your boss, your clients, prospects and online audience.Starting Price: $10/month -
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Netrix iCMS
Netrix
Netrix iCMS is a single source editorial system for content creation and multichannel publishing. Manage and publish content across websites, print publications, mobile apps and other channels. Every piece of content is archived in a platform-independent, structured database and can be reused efficiently. Integrated print CMS: Adobe InDesign plugin for managing content in print layouts. Connected: plugins for publishing on WordPress sites and other platforms. Flexible: JSON API and a headless, content-first approach.Starting Price: 15 EUR/user/month -
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Libris Unify
Libris Systems
Build personalized, bespoke brochures in under a minute. Adding a person’s name, with relative content can increase the response rate by up to 500%. Unify is a simple time saving tool that enables you to create a personal bespoke brochure not just for one client, but every client – helping your business stand out from the crowd and speeding up your sales process. Drag the line across the image below to see how personalization can transform your current brochures, simply done by typing the recipient's name and clicking a button within Unify. An engaging customer experience is essential from the very first interaction. Getting it right goes a long way to securing a future client. With over 20 years in corporate and education branding, we have helped many clients understand the value of their brand and how to develop it in order to get the most from it.Starting Price: $37 per month -
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CatBase
CatBase Publishing Systems Ltd.
The most flexible data publishing solution for producing catalogs, price lists, directories - or any type of publication that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet. Manage your catalog content using completely user-definable tables and fields (attributes). Publish the data in the many different ways: as a catalogue, price list, or directory; as an XML file or Excel spreadsheet; as a csv or tab-delimited text file; PDF or Microsoft Word document; or update another database such as MySql or SqlServer. You can design any number of different publishing formats. From the same set of data, produce catalogs or price lists in different styles, or including different data, for different customers, markets, or territories. Include any number of pictures. Set up Rules to determine what to include or omit, or how to style the data, according to criteria you define. Supports all languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.Starting Price: From £495 one-time purchase -
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SmartPublisher
Pre1
SmartPublisher™ brings together ad sales, scheduling, production and billing for print and digital publishing in one easy-to-use system. SmartPublisher™ also now includes ad proofing software to streamline the ad proofing process. You Can Take It With You SmartPublisher™ doesn’t end at the desktop. A mobile interface and browser access puts mission critical information at your fingertips in the office or on the go. SmartPublisher™ is compatible with Mac and Windows operating systems, iOS and Android platforms for smartphones and tablets, and popular browsers for online access. Grow Your Bottom Line SmartPublisher™ is an intuitive system that empowers publishers to increase revenue by minimizing effort and maximizing efficiency. Find out why thousands of sales reps and more than 500 newspapers, magazines, online publications and email publishers chose SmartPublisher™ magazine and newspaper software.Starting Price: $79 per user per month -
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Xara Cloud
Xara
Create content that speaks to your audience. A complete toolkit that reflects your ideas with visual results. No design skills required. Business owners, managers, and employees alike produce tons of content all day for sales and marketing, attracting new partners, and securing new investors. However, most people use basic tools, don’t have years of design experience, or are just frankly intimidated by design. Xara Cloud automates the application of critical brand elements such as logo, colors and fonts. All content produced by the team is on-brand without hundreds of hours of revision and constant input from designers. Let anyone express themselves without risk of damaging your brand.Starting Price: $12.99/ Month -
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Affinity Publisher
Serif
Optimized for the latest tech on Windows and Mac – and chosen by Apple as its Mac App of the Year – Affinity Publisher is the next generation of professional publishing software. From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mock-ups and more, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project. Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualize your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document. Ensure your images match the brilliance of your layout.Starting Price: $24.99 one-time payment -
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YUMPU
YUMPU
Turn your PDF into a page flipping online catalog! YUMPU Publishing transforms your PDF documents into search engine-compatible content with which you generate more traffic. Thanks to social sharing, you can tap into new target groups and maximize your reach, which increases your sales over the long term. It’s never been easier to integrate magazines directly into your website. With interactive elements, you can encourage visitors to stay longer on your site. This is how it’s done: Generate a code – copy it – integrate it into the desired location. Benefit from the rising popularity of social media and attract new readers by sharing your magazines on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Or simply share the link to your magazine or a page of it via email. No matter whether you’re using your desktop computer, smartphone or tablet, the content will always be displayed perfectly.Starting Price: €14,95 per month -
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Sqribble
Sqribble
Choose from 50 eye—grabbing designs across 15 profitable niche categories! Each template comes with table of contents and professional page layouts that convert readers into buyers! You can also fill your ebook with a selection of 1,000 instant niche articles from our built-in content engine at a push of a single button! Don’t have time to create content? Just enter a URL and watch Sqribble automatically fill your pages with fresh, ready—made content. Upload your own Word File, then sit back as Sqribble automatically extracts the content from the document and puts it straight into your new eBook. Pick a color theme and customize. Then add, delete or edit pages, headlines, images, paragraphs, text blocks, dividers, buttons and links, features, bullet lists or call to action areas.Starting Price: $67 one-time payment -
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OfficeReady
Individual Software
Create print-ready business and marketing documents with professionally designed office template software for Microsoft® Word, Excel & PowerPoint. Easily compose professional business documents & marketing materials, sales reports, newsletters, and more. Publish eye-catching PowerPoint presentations and design business cards & letterhead in minutes! Starting with quality templates saves time and ensures professional results. Studio-quality templates are provided for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Select from a library of over 700 templates for flyers, brochures, collateral materials, presentations, and more. Create accurate sales receipts and invoices using Microsoft Excel templates pre-populated with key calculations. The Photo Editor allows you to crop and resize images, and insert them perfectly into your template. The Color Theme Manager makes it easy to create and save custom colors and themes. Customize your business documents and presentations with colors and themes.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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Xpublisher
Xpublisher
Xpublisher is the key to collaborative creation, full management and easy publishing of content in all channels, enabling the highly automated production of journals, books and technical documentation. Create, edit & review structured content quickly and easily with our online XML editor. Access all your XML documents anytime, anywhere and collaborate with other authors in real-time, regardless of their technical proficiency (Note: XML is not mandatory, you can also work with common MS Word documents.) Manage & structure your content & any additional digital assets (e.g. images, video, audio) efficiently with our digital asset management system & publishing system Xpublisher, for a highly automated, fast & accurate multichannel-publishing. Numerous leading companies are already convinced by Xpublisher. We deliver turnkey solutions to help you master these challenges, so you can create content efficiently and publish it automatically -
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iStudio Publisher
iStudio Publisher
Create stunning documents with iStudio Publisher. Powerful and intuitive page layout software for desktop publishing. Designed exclusively for Mac. Featured by Apple in ‘apps for designers’, iStudio Publisher is perfect for designing anything you want to layout and print and comes with world-class support. Join over a quarter of a million users and design, enjoy, and smile! Produce beautiful, professional-quality documents with ease, including newsletters, brochures, adverts, flyers, invitations, menus, reports, posters, greeting cards, and yearbooks. Start with a professionally designed template or a blank document of any size. Anyone can master iStudio Publisher quickly, regardless of age and experience. All text, images, and visual effects are held within shapes. Create, combine and style your shapes to achieve great-looking documents with ease. Use the toolkit for creating, editing, and laying out document content, including shapes, text, and images.Starting Price: $17.99 one-time payment
Desktop Publishing Software Guide
Desktop publishing software (sometimes called "DTP") is a type of program that allows users to create documents, such as newsletters, brochures and flyers in both digital and print formats. It's used by individual users, large companies and everything in between to create professional-looking documents quickly and easily.
When compared to traditional word processing programs like Microsoft Word, desktop publishing software offers additional features, giving users more control over the look of the document. These features may include fine-tuned typography options like kerning, tracking and leading, special text effects such as drop shadows or embossed letters, advanced image manipulation capabilities including cropping and resizing photographs, layout grids for organizing content on a page and more. Additionally, many DTP programs offer templates which allow users to quickly start a project with predefined elements like company logos or stock photos already in place.
Most desktop publishing software has similar user interfaces that make it easy for anyone to get started. The basic workflow consists of adding text boxes to the page (or importing existing documents) then manipulating fonts within those text boxes to change their size and style as well as adjusting other attributes like color or alignment. Once the desired look is achieved, images can then be imported from digital files or scanned directly into the program before being manipulated further. Once complete, these projects can be exported into multiple formats suitable for printing or distribution via email and social media channels.
Desktop publishing software provides an invaluable tool for creating professional-looking documents with minimal effort but it’s important to note that while they are powerful tools they will not make up for lack of creativity or design sense on the part of the user—it's essential that you understand good design principles when using any type of graphic design software in order to achieve great results.
Features Provided by Desktop Publishing Software
- Layout Design: Allows the user to manipulate and work with text, images, and graphics on the page to create aesthetically-pleasing layouts. This includes tools like drag and drop, rulers, alignment tools, grids, bleeds and margins.
- Text Formatting: A wide range of font styles, sizes and colors can be used to add visual interest to a document. Text formatting also includes options for adding additional effects such as bolding, italicizing and underlining.
- Image Editing: With image editing tools users can adjust brightness/contrast levels, crop photos or resize images as needed. Some programs even offer more advanced functions like color correction or retouching capabilities.
- Color Schemes: Offers a selection of pre-set color schemes that make it easy for users to find harmonious colors for their documents quickly.
- Template Library: A library of professionally designed templates makes it easy to customize a project in minutes rather than having to design one from scratch each time.
- Printing Options: Desktop publishing software offers several options for printing projects including print quality settings along with the ability to print on specialty items such as business cards and envelopes.
Different Types of Desktop Publishing Software
- Adobe InDesign: This is a versatile desktop publishing software used to create brochures, magazines, posters, and other documents. It has advanced typography and layout tools, allowing users to produce professional-looking documents with ease.
- QuarkXPress: This powerful desktop publishing software is used mainly for creating newspapers and magazines. It offers users advanced typography tools that make it easy to create stunning layouts.
- Microsoft Publisher: This software makes it easy to use pre-made templates to quickly produce newsletters, flyers, and other documents. Its simple interface makes it perfect for beginners who don’t have a lot of design experience.
- Scribus: This open-source desktop publishing tool comes with all the features you need to produce great-looking publications. It also allows users to import images from other applications, making it easy to add graphics and photos into your projects.
- Adobe PageMaker: This powerful software is best known for its ability to create complex layouts with multiple columns and pages. It includes a variety of tools that allow users to easily control the size and placement of text and images in their documents.
What are the Trends Relating to Desktop Publishing Software?
- Increased Use of Graphics: Desktop publishing software makes it easier than ever to incorporate graphics into documents, such as photos and clipart. This allows businesses to create more visually appealing documents and make their message stand out.
- Variety of Layouts: Desktop publishing software makes it easy to create a variety of layouts that are eye-catching and professional-looking. This allows businesses to create documents that are tailored to the client or reader's needs.
- Customizability: Desktop publishing software provides users with the ability to customize documents with their own fonts, colors, and images. This allows businesses to create documents that reflect their own brand and style.
- Improved Quality: Desktop publishing software provides users with tools that help them produce higher quality documents. This includes features like spell check, grammar check, and auto-formatting tools that help ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Automation: Desktop publishing software helps automate many of the tedious tasks associated with document production, such as page numbering, headers, etc. This saves time and increases efficiency for businesses by allowing them to focus on more important tasks.
- Collaboration: Desktop publishing software makes it easier for teams to collaborate on projects by providing features like versioning, which allows multiple users to work on the same document at the same time without overwriting each other's work.
- Cloud Storage: Many desktop publishing programs now offer cloud storage capabilities, which allow users to store their documents online and access them from any device with an internet connection. This makes it easier for teams to share documents and work together remotely.
Benefits of Using Desktop Publishing Software
- Professional Layout: Desktop publishing software offers a wide array of tools and resources to help create professional-looking layouts. These include pre-built templates, rulers, grids, and guidelines to make it easier for even the most novice user to create documents that look like they were designed by a graphic artist or design specialist.
- Image Manipulation: To help enhance the look of an image or document, desktop publishing software has built-in tools to adjust color, brightness, contrast and other features. This makes it possible to customize images quickly without having any specialized knowledge in photo editing programs.
- File Formatting Options: With desktop publishing software, users can save documents in various formats such as Portable Document Format (PDF), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and several others. This allows them to share their files with just about anyone regardless of what type of computer system they are using.
- Text Editing Tools: Desktop publishing programs come with plenty of text editing capabilities so that users can easily edit and customize their content before printing it out or sending it via email. This can include changing font styles/sizes, adjusting margins and spacing between lines/paragraphs as well as adding special effects such as bolding or italicizing text.
- Printing Functions: Desktop publishers have built-in printing functions so that users can easily print out their documents on paper or onto other materials such as tshirts or mugs without needing additional hardware or software. Many programs also offer preview windows so that the user can see exactly how their document is going to look once printed out before committing to a final version.
How to Pick the Right Desktop Publishing Software
Make use of the comparison tools above to organize and sort all of the desktop publishing software products available.
- When selecting desktop publishing software, it is important to consider several factors. First, you should assess your own skills and needs as a user. If you are new to desktop publishing, you will want a program that is easy to learn and use. On the other hand, if you have more experience in this field, then a more complex software package may better suit your needs.
- Second, consider the type of projects you intend to create with the software; different programs offer different capabilities. For example, some packages specialize in creating newsletters while others are better suited for designing presentations or flyers. If you plan on working with large projects such as magazines or booklets, be sure to select a program that supports multiple pages.
- Finally, check out online reviews and compare prices between different packages before making your decision so that you can find the best value for your money. It's also important to make sure the software is compatible with the operating system on your computer and any other devices (e.g., tablets) you might use when desktop publishing.
Who Uses Desktop Publishing Software?
- Designers: Professionals who use desktop publishing software to create high-quality print materials, such as posters, flyers, and brochures.
- Writers/Editors: Professionals who use desktop publishing software to produce books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and other documents.
- Web Publishers: Individuals and organizations that use desktop publishing software to design and publish Web content.
- Marketers/Advertisers: Professionals who use desktop publishing software to create marketing materials such as advertisements, social media posts, graphics for websites or emails.
- Photographers: users who take advantage of the advanced capabilities offered by desktop publishing software to enhance photos and design beautiful collages or scrapbooks.
- Teachers & Educators: people that utilize the features of desktop publishing programs to create classroom materials like worksheets, tests, assignments and more.
- Small Business Owners: individuals with a limited budget who rely on the versatility of desktop publishing software in order to design their own business cards and other corporate literature at a fraction of the cost.
Desktop Publishing Software Pricing
The cost of desktop publishing software can vary greatly depending on the type and version you are looking for. Generally speaking, consumer-level desktop publishing programs tend to be priced in a range between $30-$100. These programs typically have fewer features when compared to the higher-end professional versions but still offer a broad range of capabilities that allow you to create documents with powerful graphics and text formatting tools.
On the other hand, professional desktop publishing software suites usually cost upwards of several hundred dollars and often go beyond just basic layout and typography functions by including more advanced editing options, interactive multimedia elements, and other specialized document design tools. In addition, many vendors also offer additional plugins or add-ons for their software at an extra charge which can further extend its functionality.
What Software Does Desktop Publishing Software Integrate With?
Desktop publishing software can integrate with many different types of software. This allows users to seamlessly combine and manipulate data from multiple sources within a single document. For example, desktop publishing software can be integrated with spreadsheet programs such as Excel, which allows users to import tables and graphs into their publications. Presentation software like PowerPoint or Keynote can also be integrated for the purpose of adding dynamic visuals and animation to a page layout. Additionally, web browsers such as Google Chrome or Safari can be used in conjunction with desktop publishing software in order to incorporate content from the internet directly into a publication. In this way, the possibilities for creative document design are almost limitless when integrating various types of software with desktop publishing platforms.