Desktop Publishing

Start with the terms

The Desktop Publishing page brings together resources made by GoConqr users. For a starting point, the DTP terms flashcards introduce words used in publishing, including bitmap, bleed, caption, column and cropping. Work through the terms first, then return to any that are unfamiliar as you explore the other resources.

The flashcards on topic 11 also ask what desktop publishing is and cover tools such as spellcheckers, grammar checkers and mail merge. They offer another way to practice recalling what the terms mean.

Explore techniques and software

Desktop Publisher Techniques is a mind map covering text alignment, font type and font size. Use it to connect the terminology with choices you can make when setting up text. Another mind map, Desktop-Publishing Software, covers spell checking and grammar checking.

The topic 11 mind map describes applications used to create publications such as newspapers and magazines. The mind map on creating a consistent house style brings together master documents, styles, style sheets and templates. These resources give you different ways to organize the ideas on the page.

Use maps and quizzes together

After studying a map, try the quiz on desktop publishing in chapter 11. It asks about documents that combine text and graphics and about changes to a document's style. The GCSE ICT quiz asks about features including spell checking, grammar checking, mail merge and style sheets.

Use your quiz responses to decide which terms or features to look at again. Desktop Publishing is a section of Office and Productivity Software in Computing and ICT, so these resources can support your work within that unit. Pick a mind map and use it alongside a quiz as you study.