Applications: Desktop Publishing

Print

Format

Once a document has been created, or during the process, you arrange how it will look by selecting the kind of letters and their sizes and colors, how much space is left and where, how things line up. All of this makes up the formatting of the document.

Features/Terms:

Typeface -

Set of characters of similar design like:

Point size -

One point = ¹/₇₂ of an inch like: 12 pt 18 pt 24 pt 36 pt

Font -

Combo of typeface & point size, includes styles such as BOLD, italics, underline

Margins -

Space at the page borders

Justification -

left	center	right	justify

Spacing -

Space between letters and lines

Borders/shading -

Lines around table or page; background color

Headers/footers -

Info to repeat on each page

Style set -

Saved sets of formats to reuse in different places in the document and with different documents. Possible confusion with 'style' used for bold, italics, and underline!

Columns -

Columns of text side by side as in a newspaper

Tables -

Items listed in rows and columns

Graphics -

Pictures and charts

When a document is finished, you can print it onto paper, if you have a printer connected to the computer. You will have several choices to make as part of the printing process:

Features/Terms:

Number of copies/pagesto print
Orientation:
	Portrait	Landscape
Quality:	Most printer can print with a low quality (Draft) as well as with better quality levels.
Print Preview:	Shows you how it will look in print

For a full set of lessons on word processing, go to: Working with Words

Desktop publishing does on the computer what used to be done with scissors and glue and other non-computer methods - put together text and graphics for printing.

High-end word processors can do much of what a desktop publishing program does, at least for fairly simple documents. The difference between them has become a bit blurred.

Look at a national magazine and try to duplicate the layout and graphics quality in a word processor! You will see that there IS a difference.

For professional publications, a desktop publishing program gives the precise control needed and also advanced capacities such as preparing four-color separations for commercial printing.

Дата добавления: 2014-12-23