Desk Top Publishing (DTP)

Desk Top Publishing (DTP)

1. Thesaurus - looks for words with the same meaning

2. Mail merge - the automatic addition of names and addresses from a database to letters and envelopes in order to facilitate sending mail, especially advertising, to many addresses.

3. Automatic Routines

   • style sheets - Allows the user to define styles for things such as text and heading
   • headings and footers - Text or images that automatically appeasr at the top and bottom of each page
   • Pagination - you can add page numbering . you must also avoid windows and orphans
   • automatic conents of production - Text of a certain style can be identified as headings from an automatic table of contents

4. Other:

   • Font - you can change the font type
   • Justification - text can be aligned left, right, canre or fully justified
   • importing - differant file formats can be imported. for example images can be imported from clip art
   • tabulation - you can set tabs on a page to create bullet point list with consistant indent
   • tables - Tables are useful for summarising key facts
   • borders - coloured borders can add emohisis to a section
   • line spaceing - lines can have single line spacing or can have an empty line placed in between each line of text
   • Graphics - graphics can be manipulated
   • Auto shapes - you can draw lines or shapes and change the colour of the thicness of your drawing
   • Watermarks - an image of light contrast can be added to the background of the page and can feature the insignia or logo of a company

5. spell checker - checks your spelling for you

Images and files in the map