What is the full form of DTP

(i) DTP: Desk-Top Publishing

DTP stands for Desktop Publishing. It is a publishing software used to create high quality printed material for individuals, businesses and organizations. The DTP software provides a good control over design and layout of a page as compared to the word processor.

Types

DTP can be two types:

• Creates electronic pages
• Creates virtual pages

The virtual pages are printed on physical papers such as magazines, books, news paper etc.

Usage

Desktop publishing (DTP) is used to publish magazines, books, newspapers, comics etc.

Popular desktop publishing softwares

• Adobe FrameMaker
• Adobe PageMaker
• Microsoft Office Publisher
• Corel Ventura
• OpenOffice.org
• QuarkXPress
• Scribus etc.

(ii) DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing

Distributed Transaction Processing is a technique used to distribute the functions of a transaction over several transaction programs within a network. In this database transaction protocol, two or more network hosts are involved.

Distributed Transaction must have all four ACID properties. This properties are:

• Atomicity
• Consistency
• Isolation
• Durability