Talk:Desktop publishing

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Woah. This needs much more work... Intrigue 18:34, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Infography is not only Desktop Publishing, for example 3d Maya or Autocad, both brains are parts of infography but not specified related with Desktop Publishing. Even more Ascii arts is also infography.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.112.11.38 (talk • contribs) 2006-03-21 21:07:32.

This page should note that among graphic designer and other profesionals who use page layout software, "desktop publishing" is used as in a pejorative sense. Page layout is the prefered nomenclature, and denotes the more profesional software packages of InDesign and QuarkXpress. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.129.121.79 (talk • contribs) 2006-06-01 07:35:15.

[edit] Expansion

It would be nice to see a "List of DTP software" page, and a "Comparison of DTP software" page, in line with other software genres. Unfortunately, I know very little about the subject, so I can't do it. 213.94.244.209 10:24, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

• List of desktop publishing software is done, but it probably needs attention from an expert. Rwxrwxrwx 14:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah it would be nice to see a list of softwares for desktop publishing this website is stupid and not needed theres no point —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.54.164 (talk) 14:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Attitude regarding non-WYSIWYG tools

To me, this article seems borderline antagonistic towards non-WYSWIYG tools despite the potential benefits gained from them. For example, the inability of current WYSIWYG tools to generate HTML which properly follows the box model and separates all presentation into external CSS files.

Another such example would be LyX which employs what they refer to as a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) interface, providing a graphical interface to LaTeX so that the user can focus on composition without the vagarities of typesetting getting in the way. (Though it's graphical, variations in text styling in WYSIWYM indicates semantic differences (eg. chapter heading) rather than presentational ones)

Ssokolow (talk) 07:46, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

What statements in the article sound antagonistic to you? Oicumayberight (talk) 21:22, 23 February 2008 (UTC)