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Topic 11 - DTP MLF
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MLF - 2What is Desktop Publishing?Desktop Publishing (DTP): DTP Applications are used to create publications such as newspapers or magazines, leaflets and brochures.
- 3Explain DTPDTP has more suitable features for professional publishing then standard word processing applications.
Word processing applications have similar features to DTP however DTP Applications focus on features that improve the professionalism of the layout. - 4What is a spellchecker?A spellchecker automatically checks the spelling in a document. You should not rely totally on spellcheckers because there are some pitfalls to be wary of.
- 5What is a grammar checker?A grammar checker suggests problems with the way sentences are structured, or they can find repeated words or punctuation.
- 6What is a thesaurus?A thesaurus can suggest alternatives for words. For example, for the word NICE, a thesaurus may suggest PLEASANT, KIND, LOVELY and other words with a similar meaning.
- 7What is a mail merge?Is a method of producing personalised letters by merging a standard letter with details of names and addresses and other information from a database.
- 8Give some examples where mail merge is usedExamples when mail merge may be used:
Utility companies to send out bills to customers
Businesses to send circulars
Schools to send pupils their exam results - 9What are the stages to mail merge?1. Create a standard letter
2. Place markers to show where details such as names and addresses are to be inserted.
3. Open a database of the data to be used.
4. The mail merge facility places the data from the database into each individual letter in the appropriate place.
5. Print the personalised letters. - 10What is a style sheet?A description of the way a document is to be presented. It is used to make sure there is consistency in the appearance of the document. When setting a style you can specify many things including:
The font type, size and colour
The formatting of the text, including line spacing
The position of a logo or banner - 11What is a header and a footer?A header appears at the top every page of a document
A footer appears at the bottom of every page - 12What information will be included in headers and footers?Information appearing in headers and footers may include:
The title of the document
The name and author of the document
Page numbers automatically produced
The date and time of printing - 13What is automatic contents production?Automatic contents production: Once a document has been written, the contents page can be produced automatically by the word processors software.
- 14What is page layout?When producing a document you need to think about:The size of the image
The orientation of the page (portrait or landscape)
The size of the top, bottom, left and right margins
The line spacing (single, double or one and a half spacing) - 15What is justification?Text can be aligned
To the left
To the right
Fully justified
Centered - 16What is tabulation?To make lists of data items more readable, they are often placed in columns and rows.
Using tabs it is easy to line up columns of data on a page. - 17What are tables?If the lists of data are to be displayed in a grid, then a table should be used. The number of rows and columns can be set and a columns width can be changed or cells merged to suit the data in the table.
- 18What are borders?Borders
Borders can be placed around text, graphics or even pages.
Borders can be different colours, styles and thicknesses. - 19What is a graphic?A graphic is an image. It might be:
A picture you have taken with a digital camera
A picture downloaded from a website
A piece of clipart
A picture you have scanned - 20What is a clipart?Clipart is already made graphic, often in cartoon form, that can be used to illustrate a document.
Graphics can be manipulated by
Resizing
Cropping
Rotating
Flipping (producing the mirror image) - 21What are autoshapes?Auto shapes
There are many different shapes already available in many packages. These are known as auto shapes. - 22What are watermarks?Watermarks
A graphic or text can be placed on a master page where it becomes a watermark for the rest of the document. Everything else appearing on a document is written over the water which faintly shows through the background. - 23What are file formats?When importing an image or some other sort of file from another source to include in your document you must take care which file type it is. Most applications can recognise a variety of file types. The file type is indicated by the file extension:
Type of file: File extension:
Word file - .doc(x)
Text file - .txt
Image file - .jpg - 24What are some of the benefits of word processing and DTP?High quality professional publications can be created
Templates are available for many types of document such as letters and business cards
It is easy to edit the layout of a publication - 25What are some of the benefits of word processing and DTP?The display is WYSIWTG (What you see is what you get)
Consistency of style can be given to publications, including house style for business
It is possible to create more complex layouts with DTP than with a word processor
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