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rather than installing each application
individually. At a minimum, comprehensive
suites, like Microsoft Office, typically include
word processing, spreadsheet, database, and
presentation graphics, Each application in a
software suite is designed specifically to
work as part of a larger set of applications
and to share common features.
Software suites offer two major
advantages: lower cost and ease of use.
Typically, buying a collection of software
packages in a suite costs significantly less
than purchasing the application packages
separately. Software suites provide ease of
use because the applications within a suite
normally use a similar interface and have
some common features. Thus, after you
learn how to use one application in the
suite, you are familiar with the interface of
other applications in the suite. For example,
after you learn how to print using the suite's
word processing program, you can apply the
same skill to the spreadsheet, database, and
presentation graphics programs in the suite.
Craphics and Multimedia
Software
In addition to productivity software, many
individuals also work with software
designed specifically for their fields of work.
For example, engineers, architects, publishers,
and graphic artists often use powerful
software that allows them to work with
graphics and multimedia. Types of graphics
and multimedia software include desktop
publishing software, paint/image editing
software, clip art/image gallery, multimedia
authoring tools, video and audio editing
software, Web page authoring software, and
many others. The features and functions of
some of these applications are discussed in
the following sections.
software because it is designed specifically
to support page layout, which is the pro­
cess of arranging text and graphics in a
document. DTP software is ideal for the
production of high-quality color docu­
ments, such as newsletters, marketing liter­
ature, catalogs, and annual reports. In the .
past, documents of this type were created
by slower, more expensive traditional pub­
lishing methods, such as typesetting.
Today's DTP software also allows you to
convert a color document into a format for
use on the World Wide Web.
Many home, school, and small business
users use a much simpler, easy-to-understand
DTP software designed for individual desk­
top publishing projects. Using this DTP soft­
ware, you can create newsletters and
brochures, postcards and greeting cards,
letterhead and business cards, banners,
calendars, logos, and other such documents
(Figure 3-32). Personal DTP software
guides you through the development of
these documents by asking a series of
questions, offering numerous predefined
layouts, and providing standard text you can
add to documents. As you enter text, the per­
sonal DTP software checks your spelling.
You can print your finished publications on
a color printer or place them on the Web.
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DESKTOP PUBLISHING SOFTWARE
Desktop publishing (DTP) software
allows you to design, produce, and deliver
sophisticated documents that contain text,
graphics, and brilliant colors. Although
many word processing packages have some
of the capabilities of DTP software, profes­
sional designers and graphic artists use DTP
Figure 3-32 Teachers and students use desktop publishing software,
such as Microsoft Publisher, to create flyers, certificates, newsletters, and
other types of documents.
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