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What does DTP stand for?
Name a DTP software
Features of DTP software:1. Create a master document2. Create styles3. Insert images/headers/footers/tables/footnotes4. Control Orphans/Widows & Hyphenation5. Track changes if being checked by a number of users6. Spell & grammar check7. View the whole document8. For online publications: create hyperlinks
All of these features can help a business toestablish a HOUSESYTLE AND help to increase the ACCURACY of theirdocument
Vocabulary Widow – a single
line of text which appears at the top of the next page
Orphan – The first line of a paragraph that appears at the bottom of the page
This is an orphan
…this is a widow
This week’s tasks:
A. Set up a DTP document called ICT & publishing Create a Master page layout Create a Heading & Body style
B. Take notes about ICT & Publishing for your document
C. Then create your document and include the following skills:
Insert hyperlinks Insert Header + footer Format Orphans/Widows Insert an image + table Perform a spell + grammar check Print out your document for your file
Use of ICT in Publishing
By the end of this presentation you should be ableto answer the following questions:
1. Describe how ICT has influenced publishing2. Explain the terms typesetting and plate making
TASK: Production of a newspaper While you watch the following video Write the key steps that take place to
publish a newspaper, from beginning to end
Watch this video clip:
Y:\ICT\A Level Applied ICT\- Unit 2 - Organisations use of ICT\2e. Publishing\Creating the Newspaper
First stage: Newspaper production
Correspondents write story in word Correspondents send stories to
editorial office by email Photographs will have been taken
with a digital camera Editorial staff: collect and edit stories Page layout is created Edited further and proofread
Typesetting
This is the setting of the layout of the typed page
Features of typesetting: Easy to read Correct font and font size Kerning Leading Length of each line Size of heading, sub heading and body text
Vocabulary
Typesetting: layout of the typed page Kerning: space between individual
letters Leading: space between lines of the
page
Impact of ICT Typesetting without ICT: Originally done manually.
Typesetters used individual letter blocks which were inked and pressed onto the paper for printing
Typesetting with ICT: use DTP applications. Graphic designers are highly skilled at creating layouts
Second stage: Newspaper production
Editor: accepts layout of page Send newspaper to printing plant by:1. The pages are printed and the image of
the page is burned onto a light-sensitive film. This film is put in a large fax machine and the image is transferred to the printing plant
2. The pages are sent in a digital or fax form via satellite and then transmitted to many printing plants at the same time
3. Smaller publishers: burn to a CD or send using a WAN
Third stage: Newspaper production
Computerised plate making: Images from the negatives are transferred
to printing plates (like photos are developed)
Ultraviolet light passes through the film negatives to expose the printing plate
When the plates are exposed to light, a chemical reaction takes place that allows the light-sensitive coating on the aluminum to develop the image
Computerised plate making
Watch video about how to print a magazine
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/52-how-magazine-printing-works-video.htm
Fourth stage: Newspaper production
Printing: The aluminum plate is
fixed to the printing press
The printing press has 3 rollers/cylinders
The plate is flexible so it is bent to fit around the plate roller
The large sheets are cut into bundles and these are put on the delivery trucks
Watch this in motion
Printing: Web Offset lithography
This the most common form of printing newspapers
Offset: plate does not touch the paper for printing, instead, the roller with the plate has ink put on it and this then rotates against the black cylinder, which is rubberised and so this roller forms an image from the plate roller
So it is the blanket roller that presses against the paper
The third cylinder: presses the paper against the blanket cylinder
Offset lithography
ICT & Publishing
These and similar methods are used to produce: magazines, newspapers, CD/DVD covers, books etc
Questions:
1. Explain the terms typesetting and plate making
2. Create a visual timeline to show how a magazine is produced
3. Describe how ICT has influenced publishing in terms of employment
Vocabulary list
1. Write keywords in your vocabulary list