Desktop Publishing Software

Desktop Publishing

What is Desktop Publishing Software?

Tools that enable the management of visual content, assisting in the creation/editing of documents to be printed or exported. Users can create printed materials such as magazines, pamphlets and newsletters as well as e-catalogues and online publications either from scratch or using editable templates.

Common Features

  • Templates
  • Drag and Drop Design
  • Layout Editing
  • Graphics Editing
  • Text Editing
  • Asset Hub
  • Collaboration
  • Social Media Integration
  • Data Visualization

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Adobe Systems

Adobe FrameMaker

Composite Score
6.9 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Work on long, complex content more productively with the powerful capabilities of Adobe FrameMaker. Author in XML or DITA with a powerful, easy-to-use workspace. Create rich, immersive experiences using online videos and unmatched image handling. Collaborate seamlessly using Online Review. Easily take your content to global audiences with new support for XLIFF. Publish for a range of devices from a single source as WYSIWYG PDF, Responsive HTML5, EPUB, mobile app, and more.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

Cons

  • Charges for Enhancements

Oracle BI Publisher is the reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all your reports and documents easier and faster than traditional reporting tools. Use your web browser or familiar desktop tools to create everything from pixel-perfect customer facing documents to interactive management reports against practically any data source. View reports online or schedule them and deliver tens of thousands of documents per hour with minimal impact to transactional systems.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service
MadCap Software

MadCap Flare

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Manage your entire content development workflow with MadCap Flare. From importing and content creation, to subject matter expert contribution and review, to multi-channel publishing, translation and integrated cloud-based workflows, MadCap Flare is unmatched in its power, versatility, and ability to scale for any size team or organization. The benefits of on-premise authoring combined with our cloud-based hosting, project and content management gives content developers the best authoring and publishing experience on the market.

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Page & Layout Designer combines all the text and page layout features of typical word processor & DTP packages with the image editing power of Xara's award winning illustration & photo editing tools, to produce a fully integrated, flexible & powerful 'Document Processor'.

Venngage

Venngage

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Venngage is a simple infographics tool that enables anyone to create beautiful infographics in minutes. Venngage is the most advanced info graphics tools with highly customizable controls for both beginners and advanced users. The tool comes with hundreds of different charts, icons, pictograms and widgets so that you can easily create professional looking infographics.

Encore Software

The Print Shop

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Design stunning print projects like never before with the brand-new The Print Shop Mac! For the newest version, we continued to pack in the most advanced advertising design tools and printing solutions for a truly incredible price. Create projects free of license limitations with over 10,000 royalty-free professional backgrounds and images, and thousands of unique royalty-free templates.

Infogram

Infogram

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Infogram is an intuitive visualization tool that empowers people and teams to create beautiful content. Infogram is the data visualization platform that brings out the best in your data. Our charts and infographics are quick to make, fast to share, and easy on the eye. Infogram helps media, marketers and business decision-makers tell their stories with data.

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Smore is an online platform for creating beautiful newsletters in minutes. With over 4M users, Smore is making online communication accessible to educators, small businesses, nonprofits and individuals. With Smore you can create a beautiful, professional newsletter in minutes and share your story anywhere.

Pagination

Pagination

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Pagination is an InDesign Automation service provider. It offers automated publishing solutions-as-a-service (SaaS). A solution that lets you take data from any source and convert it automatically into documents. The entire system is cloud-based and works through a simple structure of shared folders. With Pagination, database publishing becomes a cloud-based service: fast, flexible, and effective.

iStudio Software

iStudio Publisher

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iStudio Publisher is a desktop publishing (DTP) system for producing a wide range of document types; including newsletters, brochures, adverts, flyers, invitations, menus, reports, posters, greetings cards, and yearbooks. It provides comprehensive and precise control over the page layout of text, images and shapes, and enables you to combine and blend these elements together with flexibility and flair to produce documents of high quality.