Desktop publishing DTP software allows the user to produce printout in the style of a newspaper. That means in columns with pictures and other graphic features.
DTP centres on a page layout program which is used to import texts, often created in word processing programs; charts and graphs from spreadsheets; drawings and illustrations created in CAD, drawing or paint programs and photographs edited in some kind of image manipulating programs.
The program is then used to combine and arrange them all on a page. Having been composed, DTP documents are printed on a high resolution imagesetters or more advanced platesetters.
Multimedia, in fact, represents technologies and applications which integrate various kinds of media: text, sound, video, graphics and animations. The most important features of multimedia are hypertext, hypermedia and interactivity.
If we want to recognize, what the selected file contains, our first sight aims at the file extension. According to the extension we choose a specialized program to open it. Thanks to the extensions we can recognize a file format, too.
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