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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