<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement of visual elements on a page . It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives . </P> <P> The high - level page layout involves deciding on the overall arrangement of text and images, and possibly on the size or shape of the medium . It requires intelligence, sentience, and creativity, and is informed by culture, psychology, and what the document authors and editors wish to communicate and emphasize . Low - level pagination and typesetting are more mechanical processes . Given certain parameters - boundaries of text areas, the typeface, font size, and justification preference can be done in a straightforward way . Until desktop publishing became dominant, these processes were still done by people, but in modern publishing they are almost always automated . The result might be published as - is (as for a residential phone book interior) or might be tweaked by a graphic designer (as for a highly polished, expensive publication). </P>

This is the physical arrangement of a text and graphics on a page