Definition of "desktop publishing" []

• The design and production of publications using personal computers with graphics capability. (noun)

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• "I tried Lucy from my last job, who would have loved to have seen me but had been ordered by her obstetrician to lie on her left side; I tried Ginny from my desktop publishing seminar and Athena from my Dukakis days; I tried Nayla from my sourdough workshop, whose answering machine thanked me for the good energy, then failed to beep."