The document are usually saved in their native page layout format (Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress) or as PDF files (Portable Document Format) and can be published and distributed anywhere – in print, attached to email, posted on websites, etc. To open a PDF file, only the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download) is required.
Having been composed, DTP documents are printed on a high resolution imagesetters or more advanced platesetters.
There are two types of pages in desktop publishing - electronic pages and virtual paper pages to be printed on physical paper pages. Virtual paper pages are intended to be printed, and therefore require paper parameters that coincide with international standard physical paper sizes such as A4, etc. A particularly important feature of desktop publishing systems is that they enable you to see on the display screen exactly how the document will appear when printed. Systems that support this feature are called WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).
Master pages are templates used to automatically copy or link elements and graphic design styles to some or all the pages of a multipage document.
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