Desktop Publishing programs allow you to import text and graphics and manipulate

them on the page to create interesting layouts. DTP software, like Adobe PageMaker or Quark Express, is used by many publishing companies to layout the newspapers or magazines that you read.

DTP software has more powerful editing features than word processors. However, as word processors become more powerful, many of these features are becoming available. Two of the extra features available in a DTP package are:

• you can easily arrange text into several columns, as you see in newspapers.

• you can integrate text and graphics using features like text wrap.

• In a suitable package, design the following layout:

Multimedia Multimedia is the presentation of information by a computer system using graphics, animation, sound and text. The data may be stored in a variety of ways using conventional computer storage devices, together with a picture database on CD-ROM. Output might be through VDUs, sound-generators and laser projectors. When you allow the viewer of a multimedia presentation, control of when and which elements are delivered, it is called interactive multimedia. Providing a series of linked elements through which the user can navigate is known as hypermedia.