When document and images are printed they are published before computer became commonplace the publishing process required large printing press that copied and duplicated pages in order to print images and words on the same page the text and graphics would have to be printed separately cut out placed on a single sheet tab in place and copied and printed fortunately coffee with graphical user interface have enable desktop publishing which allow this process to be done electronically anytime you use the computer to create a printable documents can be considered desktop publishing house of the term is most commonly used to refer professional Computer Based publishing desktop publisher use program like Adobe indesign and quick Express to create page layout for document they want to print this desktop publishing program can be used to create book magazine newspaper flyer template and many other kind of printed documents publishers may also use program like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create printable images even word processing program like Microsoft Word can be used for basic desktop publishing purpose complete desktop publishing involve the combination of typesetting graphic design page layout and printing the document how well as mentioned before desktop publishing can also be simple as typing and printing a school paper in order to desktop publishing all you need is computer monitor printer and software that can create a printable document while that might cost more than a pen and paper it certainly a cheaper than a printing press
