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Desktop Publishing

Desktop Publishing . By: Bethany Peloquin. What is Desktop Publishing? . A software for creating visual displays of ideas tools to control type, graphics, and the layout and design of pages create footnotes and endnotes, to generate tables of contents and indexes.

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Desktop Publishing

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  1. Desktop Publishing By: Bethany Peloquin

  2. What is Desktop Publishing? • A software for creating visual displays of ideas • tools to control type, graphics, and the layout and design of pages • create footnotes and endnotes, to generate tables of contents and indexes

  3. ..Before Desktop Publishing • E-scales, pasteup, and other non-desktop computer ways • Adobe PageMaker 7 • Adobe InDesign version 2 • QuarkXPress version 5 • Adobe FrameMaker version 7 • Corel VENTURA version 8

  4. Advantages of Desktop Publishing • enables a small business or an individual to produce professional-quality materials • in-house control for updating and editing products

  5. What types of documents can businesses produce with Desktop Publishing software? • General publications and graphics • Long, multi-chapter documents • Publications with tabular material

  6. Compare at least three software programs that are available to do Desktop Publishing tasks. • Adobe PageMaker version 7: came out in 2002, on both Macintosh and Windows, has a full set of basic tools for creating general publications, flyers, brochures, and other items • Adobe InDesign version 2: came out in 1999, easy enough to be used by less-skilled desktop publishers, set of basic tools for creating magazines, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, brochures, advertisements, large format posters, and other items • Corel VENTURA version 8: came out in 1998, tools for creating books, catalogs, journals, scientific, academic, technical, and other multi-chapter documents

  7. Bibliography • Bear , Jacci, Howard. "about.com." Desktop Publishing . about.com , 2011. Web. 19 Sep 2011. <http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/beginners/f/what_dtp.htm>. • "Brother Soft Windows ." Adobe Pagemaker 7.0. Brothersoft , 8/23/ 2011. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://www.brothersoft.com/adobe-pagemaker-67067.html>. • "what are the advantages of desktop publishing." Outskirts Press. Answers Encyclopedia, 2011. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/advantages-desktop-publishing-141962.html>. • "Desktop Publishing Specialists." Labor Market information . California Employment , 2002. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/occguide/desktop.htm>. • "GRAPHIC DESIGN SOFTWARE SCREENSHOT - BUTTERFLY ARTWORK ." CeledyDraw2. Celdy Software, 2005. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://www.celedy.com/screenshot01.html>. • LastChagnon, Bevi . "The Publishing Business: Desktop Publishing Software." JEP, August, 2002 . Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0008.107>.

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