Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: page layout software
page layout software
software specially designed for creating camera-ready copy. Page layout programs, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, allow the desktop publisher to combine many separate files of different types into a specified design. These special designs, called templates or style sheets, provide a framework to put the individual elements into. Most programs come with a library of predefined stylesheets.
Page layout software also allows more control over typography than most word processors.
