Topic: Desktop Publishing - DTP

• Desktop publishing – the process of using specific types of software to combine text and graphics to produce documents such as newsletters, brochures, books, etc.

• Microsoft Powerpoint – presentation software that can be used for desktop publishing.

• Drawing Tools – tool bar in Microsoft that allows user to format drawn objects (shape fill and shape outline).

• Shapes – shapes in powerpoint that can be easily drawn.• Order of objects – Order in which they are layered on a page

(send to back, send to front).• Shape Fill & Shape Outline

• What could you name your DTP business?Creative treasures, Custom creations, etc.

• WordArt – text modifying object in Microsoft.

• Career: Graphic Designer: – Designs logos on posters, billboards, product

packaging.

– Work for magazines and advertising agencies, marketing and art departments in organizations

WORD ART

Topic: Desktop Publishing

Topic: Microsoft PowerpointEssential Q:

Career: Desktop Publisher

Desktop publishers combine, alter and manipulate words and images to create documents. They use computers and their imagination.

Graphic Designer VS Desktop Publisher:– Graphic designers come up with concepts and ideas

to create original designs. – Desktop publishers take those designs and turn them

into digital files for printing.

Topic: Microsoft PowerpointEssential Q:

Graphic Designer VS Desktop Publisher:– Graphic designers come up with concepts and ideas

to create original designs. – Desktop publishers take those designs and turn

them into digital files for printing.

Topic: Microsoft PowerpointEssential Q:

Page layout - is the placement of design items within the page. Portrait or Landscape.

Cropping – to delete unwanted parts of an image so that the result is more useful.

Text Box – a box that allows the user to insert text that is easily moveable.

Call out - Explanatory note with a line pointing to something else. Speech Bubble, Text Box

Topic: DTP - Microsoft Publisher

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Text Box – a box that allows the user to insert text that is easily moveable.

Call out - Explanatory note with a line pointing to something else in the document. Speech Bubble, Text Box

Graphic - Any object other than text.

Topic: Microsoft PublisherEssential Q: How can I use the templates in Publisher to create products for a

business?

Microsoft Publisher – software used for desktop publishing

Business cards – cards bearing business information about a company or individual. Memory aide or Advertisement.

Correct Address format: 12543 Atasca Lane

Humble, TX 77346

Topic: DTP - Microsoft Publisher

Topic: DTP: Microsoft Publisher

Margins - Empty space around the edge of a page: top, bottom, left and right margins.

Byline - The author's name. Usually printed in a smaller or italic font just below the headline.