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Dress up your words with fancy fonts. Illustrate your words with pretty pictures. Organize your words with tasteful templates. Desktop publishing utilizes fonts, images, and templates to create attractive page layouts. Find type foundries and free fonts, commercial image vendors, free clip art or stock photos for print, templates for the major desktop publishing software programs, and other cool tools and essential supplies for use in desktop publishing.
Your Favorite Desktop Publishing Supplies or Extras
By definition, you need desktop publishing software to do desktop publishing. And even that comes in many flavors. After that, your supplies depend on what you're trying to do.
What Supplies Do You Need to Do Desktop Publishing?
You'll need software. Beyond that, the supplies needed for desktop publishing varies.
4 Types of Software Used in Desktop Publishing
There are four general groups of software used in desktop publishing software most designers need. These types of programs make up the core of your toolbox.
What is a Template?
Learn what a template is, other names for templates, and how templates are used in desktop publishing.
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