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-Using a personal computer or workstation to produce high-quality printed documents.
-Allows you to use different typefaces, specify various margins and justifications, and embed illustrations and graphs directly into the text.
-The most powerful desktop publishing systems enable you to create illustrations.
-While less powerful systems let you insert illustrations created by other programs.
-As word-processing programs become more and more powerful, the line separating such programs from desktop publishing systems is becoming blurred.
-In general, though, desktop publishing applications give you more control over typographical characteristics, such as kerning, and provide more support for full-color output.
-A particularly important feature of desktop publishing systems is that they enable you to see on the display screen exactly how the document will appear when printed.
-Systems that support this feature are called WYSIWYGs(what you see is what you get).
-Hardware costs made desktop publishing systems impractical for most uses.
-But as the prices of personal computers and printers have fallen.
-Have become increasingly popular for producing newsletters, brochures, books, and other documents that formerly required a typesetter.
-Can output it directly to a printer or you can produce a PostScript file which can then take to a service bureau.
-The service bureau has special machines that convert the PostScript file to film, which can then be used to make plates for offset printing.
-Offset printing produces higher-quality documents, especially if color is used, but is generally more expensive than laser printing.
-Properly speaking, desktop publishing is the technical assembly of digital filesin the proper format for printing.
-In practical use, much of the "graphic design" process is also accomplished using desktop publishing and graphics software and is sometimes included in the definition of desktop publishing.
-Comparisonbetween desktop publishing and graphic design:
What isDesktop Publishing- It is theprocessof using the computer and specific types of software to combine text and graphics to produce documents such as newsletters, brochures, books, etc.
What isGraphic Design - It is theprocessand art of combiningtext and graphics and communicating an effective message in the designof logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication.
-Desktop publishingsoftware is atool for graphic designers and non-designers to create visual communications.
-Themain players in the field are Adobe, Corel, Quark, and Serif with products that stick close to the original use of desktop publishing software for professional page layout.
-Additionally, Microsoft, Nova Development, Broderbund and others have been producing consumer or print creativity and business desktop publishing software for many years.
-Desktop publishing is thefastest growingart profession.
-With developments in computer technology happening at an incredible rate, publishing can now be done much more cost effectively from a single desktop computer.
-Frequently, this business is started byone person as a freelance part-time profession.
-As word spreads around and a client base is built up, the artist has the option of making this a full time occupation and hiring others to assist.
-Desktop publishers may create business cards, newsletters, letterhead, envelopes, logos, posters, name tags, bumper stickers, and web sites.
-Theattractionto this profession is the fact that you are your own boss and can work around another job or school.
-Its also a great way to get experience and make you more marketable to a large studio or agency.
-Although it seems that everyone is now a web designer, there is still a demand for good web site designers. This can be done on your personal computer.
-Unless you are working for someone else, you will need to create your own business and request the necessary forms from the IRS.
-You are providing a service, so you probably won't need to charge sales tax for your jobs.
-Desktop Publishers should be familiar with Quark, Flash, Fireworks, InDesign and/or Pagemaker, and Photoshop.
References from
1. Computing Essentials Complete 2010 by Timothy J.O'Leary and Linda I.O'Leary from McGRAW Hill.
Our class group Presentation + Quiz finally started during this week. Although our group haven't started do the presentation but it do make us nervous.
Somehow for the presentation of group The Destiny & Weconnectyou, they are doing their job with good. They do make their preparation and pass the knowledge to all of the student in the class.
Application software -Also known as an application or an "app"
-Is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks.
-It helps to solve problems in the real world.
-Contrasted with system software and middle ware
-Which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user.
-A simple, if imperfect, analogy in the world of hardware would be the relationship of an electric light bulb (an application) to an electric power generation plant (a system).
-The power plant merely generates electricity, not itself of any real use until harnessed to an application like the electric light that performs a service that benefits the user.
-There are two categories of application software:
-More formally known asdocument preparation system
-Is acomputerapplicationused for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material.
-May also refer to a type of stand-alone office machine
-Combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of anelectric typewriterwith a dedicated processor (like a computer processor) for the editing of text.
-Featured a monochrome display and the ability to save documents onmemory cardsordiskettes.
-Later models introduced innovations such asspell-checking programs, increased formatting options, and dot-matrix printing.
-As the more versatile combination of apersonal computerand separateprinterbecame commonplace.
-Most business-machine companies stopped manufacturing the word processor as a stand-alone office machine.
-As of 2009 there were only two U.S. companies, Classic andAlphaSmart, which still made stand-alone word processors.
-Many older machines, however, remain in use.
-Are descended from earlytext formattingtools (sometimes calledtext justificationtools, from their only real capability).
-One of the earliest applications for thepersonal computerin office productivity.
-Although early word processors used tag-basedmarkupfor document formatting.
-Most modern word processors take advantage of agraphical user interfaceproviding some form ofwhat-you-see-is-what-you-getediting.
-Most are powerful systems consisting of one or more programs that can produce any arbitrary combination ofimages,graphicsand text, the latter handled withtype-settingcapability.
-Microsoft Wordis the most widely used word processing software.
-You use this to start a new file. So what? Well do you accept the first document offered to you "blank document" or do you ever try out the other choices?
-These allow you to create a document based on a template.
The Insert menu is good for putting images into your document, or things like page numbers and the date and time when the document was created. Practice putting these objects into your document:
Once you have created a text or copied it from elsewhere, you can change its appearance to match the style you have chosen for your schoolwork. If you have a consistent house style, then your documents will look better together.
Font
-This refers to the typeface or style.
-Professional typographers suggest that no more than two different fonts should appear on any page.
-Research shows that serif fonts are easier to read on a page, while sans serif fonts (such as Arial, which is used for this document) are easier to read on a computer monitor.
Times New Roman and serif fonts look like this.
-For emphasis you can usecolor, bold or italic.
-For another level of emphasis, you can use underlining.
-However, underlining on titles looks ugly - you won't see it on many professional publications.
-In writing Web pages, you should avoid underlining, as the browser uses this feature to show a hyperlink.
Paragraph
-You can set the style for paragraphs of various kinds, which show the structure of the document.
-For example, you can have a different style for each descending level in a hierarchy.
-Alternatively, you can keep the paragraph style the same, while using different levels of header, as in this document.
Borders and shading
-You can set a range of borders and shading effects around different blocks or selections of text.
-This is a good way to make a selection stand out. But this works best if you use it sparingly.
You can set a range of borders and shading effects around different blocks or selections of text. This is a good way to make a selection stand out. But this works best if you use it sparingly.
You can set a range of borders and shading effects around different blocks or selections of text. This is a good way to make a selection stand out. But this works best if you use it sparingly.
bit, kissed, touched, ate, cuddled, fondled, rode, struck, tortured etc.
-With luck you will get surreal but grammatically sound sentences, like:
The toxic pinkaardvarkpatientlyfondled a drunkenlifeboat.
Grammar checking
-If your word processor has a grammar checker you can use this as a teaching/learning tool. The trick is to give them some text that contains non-standard forms to correct it.
Language change and spelling
-You could also use this with regional or other varieties of English, such as pidgins.
Changing person and viewpoint
-Use the Find and Replace tools to change the viewpoint in a text.
-Keep changing the passage until there are no mistakes in the grammar, and it makes sense when you read it aloud.
-The Undo and Redo functions are very powerful - and not just to remove a change you don't like.
-There are several ways to use the mouse or keyboard to control these tools - the most obvious is to click on the left and right pointing curly arrows on the toolbar (if you have this).
-Alternatively use the Edit menu, and choose the Undo or Redo options.
-Most convenient, if you can remember it, is to use the control Ctrl) key ( in combination with other letters on the keyboard - Control + z is Undo and Control + y is Redo.
