Desktop Publishing : Drawing Tools

All desktop publishers incorporate some drawing facilities. Some will include most of the features of a drawing package. Others will have much more limited facilities. As a minimum most DTP packages will let you :

• Draw straight lines.
• Draw simple shapes such as rectangles, squares and circles.
• Colour in lines and shapes.
• Create borders around text and picture frames.

If the drawing features of your desktop publisher are not very good then you may find it easier to produce any drawings in a graphics package and then import the results into the DTP program.

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