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DTP Document Transfer Profile
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DTP Developmental Therapeutics Program
DTP Distributed Transaction Processing
Maybe your coworkers mean the first one, but as far as I'm concerned
"desktop publishing" is the most common. Even when I did a search for "dtp"
on Yahoo, all it brought up were desktop publishing categories and sites.
Jennie Smith
jsmith -at- informatica -dot- com
> Can someone expand "DTP" for me? I thought it was simply "(D)esk(T)op
> (P)ublishing", but about a third of the time people here seem
> to be using it
> to mean something else.
>
> -Jennifer Freeman
> basilisk -at- acm -dot- org
>
> PS:I've already looked at over 80 past articles containing
> "DTP" in the
> archive. No luck in coming up with a definition.
