Desktop Publishing Features

DTP features including:

• planning strategies:

  • thumbnails, visuals and annotation

• generic DTP terms and techniques:

  • copy/paste, import/export

  • single- and multi-page format

  • page size, orientation, grid, guides, snap, master page layers, document sizing

  • cropping (square, full cropping, crop to shape), rotate, text box, handles, text wrap, flow text along a path, extended text

  • colour fill, colour picking, textured fills, gradient fill, transparency, drop shadow

  • serif, sans serif and script fonts, font styles, placeholder text (lorem ipsum), reverse, drop caps

  • column, margin, gutter, caption, header, running headline, heading, title, footer, folio, column rule/rule, indent, hanging indent, line spacing, pull quote, justification, floating items.

  • proofs (pre-press), registration marks, crop marks, bleed

• file types:

  • raster (tiff, jpg, png, bmp), vector (svg, dxf) and their features