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Desk Top Publishing has its roots in word processing. Indeed, decades after the first word-processing system was created, new text-editing programs were developed that integrated advanced functions such as ready-made page templates, tables and borders, and variable column-widths, blurring many of the distinctions between word processing and DTP (Hiltzik, 2007).

For this paper, QuarkXPress, a Desktop Publishing Software is selected. Today, QuarkXPress is the preeminent DTP software suites used by professionals at newspapers and magazines; Adobe has recently tried, unsuccessfully, to supercede both with its advanced InDesign program. Amateurs and small-business owners, meanwhile, tend to use less expensive ...