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Windows Desktop Publishing Software

Windows users have tons of choices for desktop publishing software from home use to professional. Here are some of the top choices plus utilities and related desktop publishing software products.

Top Professional Desktop Publishing Software for Windows

These are the industry-standard or most used programs for professional use in-house, by small businesses, and by freelancers.

Free Desktop Publishing Software for Windows

These programs do a pretty good of job at page layout and they don't cost anything. Win-Win.

Newsletter Design Software for Windows

Design all kinds of newsletters for personal, school, or business use with these newsletter design software programs.

The Big List of Windows Desktop Publishing Software

InDesign, Publisher, QuarkXPress, and PagePlus may get the most attention but there are hundreds of programs used in desktop publishing. This list focuses on the Windows programs that best fit the page layout category for professional, business, and consumer use. Some are generally classified as office suites or graphics software but they are...

Illustration Software for Windows

Illustration or drawing programs produce scalable vector artwork making them ideal as the all-around graphics creation and logo design tool. For commercial printing, scalable EPS graphics are the format of choice and import easily into most major page layout programs for creating letterhead, business cards, and other documents.

Windows Photo Editors

An image editor is the tool you need for working with photographs and bitmap graphics. In addition to strong photo-editing features your image editor should easily import and export common graphics formats including TIFF, GIF, JPG, and EPS. For professional design work, Photoshop and Photo-Paint are the industry standards (especially Photoshop)...

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