EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

Desktop Publishing
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Overview

Desktop Publishing is a general term for software that allows you to create a variety of printed materials.  These printed materials range from posters or flyers to brochures and even complete books.  Desktop Publishing software works quite a bit like a word processing software, but allows greater control over the arranging of items on a printed page and also a larger variety in the types of printed materials that can be created.  Desktop publishing software is used in for just about every type of printed publication that you can think of ...newspapers, magazines, brochures, and so on.

Software to Use

• Microsoft Publisher (recommended)
• Adobe PageMaker
• Other software is available

Skills Required

• Image capture and editing
• Text style manipulation (bold, italic, various fonts, etc.)
• Page layout skills to make an appealing brochure

Tutorials

• Microsoft Publisher
  http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PublisherHelp.htm

• Adobe PageMaker
  http://shg.ic.ucsb.edu/project/qrs/Pagemaker
  NOTE: This tutorial is designed for the MacOS version of PageMaker, thus Windows users will need to translate some Mac specific instructions