1. Colleen Vancos DESK TOP PUBLISHING ASSIGNMENT 1

2. WHAT IS DESK TOP PUBLISHING? The act of using software on a personal computer to combine mixed-media elements. Elements such as: Text, Photos, or Charts into printable documents.

3. DESKTOP PUBLISHING BEFORE Before Computers: The publishing press required large print presses that copied and duplicated pages To print images and words on the same page the text and image would have to be printed separately, cut out, placed on a single sheet, taped in place, then copied and printed

4. ADVANTAGES OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING More control of how you want to format and arrange your text, as well as the final product Combine files together in one document Cost- effective Changes can be done easily You can import files from a external source Which includes: pictures and graphics from drawings, video stills from a camera, and text from a word document

5. TYPES OF DOCUMENTS PRODUCED WITH DESKTOP PUBLISHING SOFTWARE Page Plus by Serif Microsoft Publisher Adobe In Design Print Artist The Print Shop Print Master Scribus

6. SOFTWARE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO DESKTOP PUBLISHING TASKS Special Effects: Tools that allow you to create drop shadows and text on curves Image- editing tools Design tools Tabular Materials: Ability to import from various data sources Control the layout of tabular materials Create equations Support for electronic distribution: Export to various file formats – including Adobe PDF and XML

7. WORK CITED Mitchell, Scott. Conjecture Corporation, 2011.. Johnstown Business Centre Naas Co Kildare : techstore.ie, 2011.. eHow,. Demand Media, Inc., 2011. Web..