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DTP Principals

DTP Principals. Click the examples on each page to find out more. Click the arrow in the bottom corner to start!. Column rule. Alignment. Drop Capital. Sub heading. Bleed. Caption. Footer. Alignment. Pull quote.

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DTP Principals

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  1. DTP Principals Click the examples on each page to find out more. Click the arrow in the bottom corner to start!

  2. Column rule Alignment Drop Capital Sub heading

  3. Bleed Caption Footer

  4. Alignment Pull quote

  5. The drop capital grabs the readers attention and guides them into reading the rest of the passage. Quite often, they are decorative pieces of typography and stand out from the rest of the text.

  6. Sub headings are used to after a heading divide the main division of text

  7. Alignment is the setting of the text in a document. Is the text in this document… • Left justified • Right justified • Fully justified

  8. Incorrect Left aligned text is aligned along the left hand side of the margin like the text in this box

  9. Incorrect Right aligned text is aligned along the right hand side of the margin like the text in this box

  10. Correct!  Fully justified text is text which is aligned across the left and right margin and the word spacing is adjusted so that it falls flush with both sides like the text in this box

  11. Column rule is the thin line of space in between blocks of text. In DTP, it is common to have a rule of 5mm between text.

  12. The term bleed is used for any image which overlaps the border of your document. The image here is a full bleed as it has all of its elements running off the page.

  13. A caption is a short piece of text which appears below an image, usually giving a description of the image. Most captions draw attention to something which is not that obvious.

  14. A footer appears at the bottom of a page which are usually the same from page to page and give small differences in information, such as page numbers.

  15. A pull quote is a is a quotation ‘pulled’ from the article or publication that it is in. It is used to give emphasis to key topic. Commonly, publications do not line the pull quote with the columns on the page; cutting two columns. It is usually bigger than the text in the columns.

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