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Ch4: Desktop publishing programs mix text and graphics to create professional publications. Image editors create and modify bitmap image files. Illustration programs modify vector images. Image galleries are libraries of electronic images, widely available from the Web. A graphics suite is a collection of individual graphics programs sold as a unit. Video editing software allows you to reorganize, add effects, and more to digital video. Audio editing software allows you to create and edit audio clips. You can add audio effects, like filters, to your tracks. Multimedia integrates all sorts of media, including video, music, voice, graphics, and text into one presentation. The creation of multimedia presentations involves four steps: Plan and analyze, design, create, and support. Creating a site is called Web authoring. Web sites are an interactive multimedia form of communication. Web authoring programs are specifically designed to create Web sites. Three areas are virtual reality, knowledge-based system, and robotics. VR creates computer-generated simulated environments. Knowledge-based (expert) systems are programs that duplicate the knowledge that humans use to perform specific tasks. Robotics is concerned with developing and using robots. Ch5： System software works with end users, application software, and computer hardware to handle the majority of technical details. Operating systems, Utilities, Device drivers and Language translators. Operating systems’ functions include managing resources, providing a user interface, and running applications between different applications stored in memory. Three categories of operating systems are Embedded, Network, Stand-alone. Windows, Mac OS, and Linux are all OS. Windows is the most widely used operating system. It designed to run with Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors. Mac OS is an innovative, powerful, easy-to –use operating system; designed to run with Macintosh computers. UNIX was originally designed to run o