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Desk Top Publishing
Computing and Information Science
Desk Top Publishing Package
A desk top publishing package is another General Purpose Package.
It is used to produce professional looking reports, newletters, booklets and magazines.
Features of a DTP Package
The particular features of desktop publishing packages are:– using wizards or templates– entering text– adding clip art– importing graphics– scaling graphics– changing layouts– importing text– text wrap around graphics
Features of a DTP Package
Using Templates Templates can be used to mark out
standard layouts for a number of pages. Most DTP packages allow the use of
ready made templates or you can create your own.
Templates can speed up the process of creating a document.
Using Wizards Wizards leads the user step by step
through the creation of a document.
Features of a DTP Package
Entering Text Like all other general purpose packages,
a DTP package allows the user to enter text into a document
The text can be entered directly or
The text can be entered into a word processing package first and then inserted into the DTP package.
Features of a DTP Package
Adding Clip Art– Clip Art is a collection of professionally drawn
images supplied on disk or included as part of an application package
– The Clip Art can be added to the DTP document. Importing Graphics
– Graphics produced from a digital camera or scanner can also be inserted into a DTP document.
– Care must be taken to use the correct graphic format.
Features of a DTP Package
Scaling Graphics– This means changing its size.– Scaling allows graphics to be resized to fit
into a particular space on a page.– Scaling can be precise by entering a
number– or imprecise by using the graphics tools of
the DTP package
Features of a DTP Package
Change Layout– Pages of a news paper or a magazine, are
laid out differently.– The text can be arranged in columns but on
each page the size of the columns may vary. Import Text
– This means entering text from a file rather than directly from the computer keyboard.
– Standard file formats such as text, ASCII or RTF can be used.
Features of a DTP Package
Text Wrap– Text can be wrapped around a graphic in various ways.– This saves space being
wasted on a page.
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