Course Details

Desktop publishing requires the use of a personal computer and page layout software to create documents for either large-scale publishing or small-scale local multifunction peripheral output and distribution. Desktop publishing methods provide more control over design, layout, and typography than word processing. DTP skills and software used for common paper and book publishing are sometimes used to create graphics for promotional items, trade show exhibitions, retail package designs and outdoor signs.

Objectives

Graphic-based desktop publishers have superior capabilities for handling images such as setting resolution, brightness, contrast, cropping, and filling the images with color.

To produce any publications, they must be printed. Therefore, DTP software helps the user to prepare artwork (i.e., publications that are ready for printing).

Typesetter can create and edit very complex text & graphical objects of high quality.

User can design a page layout by setting picture and object locations, divide a page into a number of columns, create layers.