Desktop publishing

Benefits of DTP
1. High quality, pro looking publications that have impact can be created
2. Templates
3. Easy to edit publication layout
4. display shows what will be printed
5. Consistency of style
6. Ready made colour schemes
7. Complex layouts possible
Word processing software
1. document that can be attached to emails or printed
Features
1. Page layout (margins, size, orientation etc)
2. Changeable text fonts/size
3. Justification (text aligned left/right)
4. Tabulation (List of data put in tables to be more readable)
5. Headers/footers
6. Templates
7. Spellcheck/thesaurus
  1. Problems
    1. incorrect word may be valid anyway (i.e witch and which)
    2. US/UK have different spelling of some words (colour/color)
    3. Names and surnames marked incorrect as they aren't in the dictionary
8. Mail merge
9. Borders
10. Graphics = images can be manipulated/autoshaped
File formats
1. Word
  1. text
    1. image
      1. spreadsheet
        comma-separated variable
        Rich text format
        Database
        .mdb
        .rtf
        .csv
        .xls / .xlsx
      2. .jpg / .png
    2. .txt
  2. .doc / .docx
Watermarks
1. Placed on master page and appear behind every page of the document

Resource summary

	Created by Matthew Stentiford about 7 years ago