Use of ICT in Publishing

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Use of ICT in Publishing
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What is Desktop publishing (DTP)?

• It refers to the process of using the computer to
  produce professional documents, also through
  photo image and editing software.

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Who uses DTP?
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Newspaper and Magazines
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• Staff who design the layouts for newspapers and
  magazines will use DTP to help them achieve a
  professional and eye-catching design.

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Book Publishers
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• Book covers may be created by usingimages drawn
  by artists and then incorporating them with text
  using DTP software.

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Business and Charities
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• They may use DTP to create leaflets, posters or
  flyers to advertise their business or to
  publicise an event.

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Teachers
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• Teachers often use DTP software to produce
  worksheets or exercises for students to use in
  class.

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Hardware requirements

• Computer
• Printer
• Scanner
• Digital Camera

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Computer

• A Very powerful computer is needed with a lot of
  memory and a large hard drive, because
  manipulating pictures on the screen takes a lot
  of computing power.

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Printer

• Ink-jet printer is used that is capable of
  printing in colour.
• Laser printers produce better quality, but colour
  laser printer are very expensive.

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Scanner

• A scanner is used to scan photographs and
  hand-drawn drawings into a document.If there is
  large amount of text to input, this can also be
  scanned in.

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Digital Camera

• Digital cameras are able to take photographs that
  are digitised and stored inside the camera.

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Advantages of Digital Camera

• There is no need for films
• Dont need to have the photos developed
• Images transfer directly to the computer
• Images can be altered and sized

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Features available in DTP Software

• Templates
• Style Sheets
• Text Frame

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Templates

• The templates come with a laid out design with
  little, images and text already in place.

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Advantages of using templates

• Templates can save time
• Consistent style if everyone in an organisation
  uses the same template

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Text Frame

• Text and graphics are placed in frames. These
  frames can then be moved around the document and
  repositioned.

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Style Sheets

• Style sheets are used to help make the text,
  headings and subheadings consistent.
• It also makes it easier and quicker to apply
  styles to the document.

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• Done By

Moza Al-Moosa