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Desk Top Publishing

Desk Top Publishing. Standard Grade Computing. Desk Top Publishing Package . A desk top publishing package is another General Purpose Package. It is used to produce professional looking reports, newletters, booklets and magazines. Features of a DTP Package .

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Desk Top Publishing

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  1. Desk Top Publishing Standard Grade Computing

  2. Desk Top Publishing Package • A desk top publishing package is another General Purpose Package. • It is used to produce professional looking reports, newletters, booklets and magazines.

  3. Features of a DTP Package • The particular features of desktop publishing packages are: • using wizards or templates • entering text • adding clip art • importing graphics • scaling graphics • changing layouts • importing text • text wrap around graphics

  4. Features of a DTP Package • Using Templates • Templates can be used to mark out standard layouts for a number of pages. • Most DTP packages allow the use of ready made templates or you can create your own. • Templates can speed up the process of creating a document. • Using Wizards • Wizards leads the user step by step through the creation of a document.

  5. Features of a DTP Package • Entering Text • Like all other general purpose packages, a DTP package allows the user to enter text into a document • The text can be entered directly or • The text can be entered into a word processing package first and then inserted into the DTP package.

  6. Features of a DTP Package • Adding Clip Art • Clip Art is a collection of professionally drawn images supplied on disk or included as part of an application package • The Clip Art can be added to the DTP document. • Importing Graphics • Graphics produced from a digital camera or scanner can also be inserted into a DTP document. • Care must be taken to use the correct graphic format.

  7. Features of a DTP Package • Scaling Graphics • This means changing its size. • Scaling allows graphics to be resized to fit into a particular space on a page. • Scaling can be precise by entering a number • or imprecise by using the graphics tools of the DTP package

  8. Features of a DTP Package • Change Layout • Pages of a news paper or a magazine, are laid out differently. • The text can be arranged in columns but on each page the size of the columns may vary. • Import Text • This means entering text from a file rather than directly from the computer keyboard. • Standard file formats such as text, ASCII or RTF can be used.

  9. Features of a DTP Package • Text Wrap • Text can be wrapped around a graphic in various ways. • This saves space being wasted on a page.

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