1. Use of ICT in Publishing

2. 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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3. Who uses DTP?

4. Newspaper and Magazines

5. Staff who design the layouts for newspapers and magazines will use DTP to help them achieve a professional and eye-catching design.

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

7. Book covers may be created by using images drawn by artists and then incorporating them with text using DTP software.

8. Business and Charities

9. They may use DTP to create leaflets, posters or flyers to advertise their business or to publicise an event.

10. Teachers

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

12. Hardware requirements
Computer
Printer
Scanner
Digital Camera

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

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

17. Advantages of Digital Camera
There is no need for films
Don’t need to have the photos developed
Images transfer directly to the computer
Images can be altered and sized

18. Features available in DTP Software
Templates
Style Sheets
Text Frame

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

20. Advantages of using templates
Templates can save time
Consistent style – if everyone in an organisation uses the same template

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

22. It also makes it easier and quicker to apply styles to the document.
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.