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Desk Top Publishing Assignment 1

Desk Top Publishing Assignment 1. Colleen Vancos. What is Desk Top Publishing?. The act of using software on a personal computer to combine mixed-media elements. Elements such as: Text, Photos, or Charts into printable documents . Desktop Publishing Before.

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Desk Top Publishing Assignment 1

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  1. Desk Top Publishing Assignment 1 Colleen Vancos

  2. What is Desk Top Publishing? • The act of using software on a personal computer to combine mixed-media elements. • Elements such as: Text, Photos, or Charts into printable documents.

  3. Desktop Publishing Before • Before Computers: The publishing press required large print presses that copied and duplicated pages • To print images and words on the same page the text and image would have to be printed separately, cut out, placed on a single sheet, taped in place, then copied and printed

  4. Advantages of Desktop Publishing • More control of how you want to format and arrange your text, as well as the final product • Combine files together in one document • Cost- effective • Changes can be done easily • You can import files from a external source • Which includes: pictures and graphics from drawings, video stills from a camera, and text from a word document

  5. Types of Documents Produced with Desktop Publishing Software • Page Plus by Serif • Microsoft Publisher • Adobe In Design • Print Artist • The Print Shop • Print Master • Scribus

  6. Software programs available to desktop publishing tasks • Special Effects: • Tools that allow you to create drop shadows and text on curves • Image- editing tools • Design tools • Tabular Materials: • Ability to import from various data sources • Control the layout of tabular materials • Create equations • Support for electronic distribution: • Export to various file formats – including Adobe PDF and XML

  7. Work cited • Mitchell, Scott. Conjecture Corporation , 2011. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=website>. • Johnstown Business Centre Naas Co Kildare : techstore.ie, 2011. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=website>. • eHow, . Demand Media, Inc., 2011. Web. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=website>.

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