WYSIWYG stands for what you see is what you get . A WSYIWYG application doesn't allow you to see certain images on the display screen that is going to be printed on your paper. WYSIWYG is popular for desktop publishing. WYSIWYG allows the programmer to see the what the final result is while it is in the process of being made. The WSYIWYG was created by Charles Simonyi at the location of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970's, which became his basic work for Microsoft and it had envovled with 2 other WYSIWYG progams, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel. The actual WYSIWYG editor was a word processor progam called Bravo. This WYSIWYG may show 100 dots per inch (dpi), but then the regular desktop printer would only be able to have 600 dpi. Even though the screen may have 10,000 dpi's but the actual printing would actually produce 360,000 dpi's. 

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