DIPLOMA IN DESK TOP PUBLISHING

LIST OF SUBJECTS TO BE STUDIED FOR PGDPD
|Sl.N| SUBJECT |
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|01 |Semester I |
| |DPD 1.1 Fundamentals of Printing and |
| |Publishing |
| |DPD 1.2 Computer concepts |
| |DPD 1.3 Introduction to fundamentals of Word |
| |Processing |
| |DPD 1.4 Advanced word processing using In |
| |Design (Page Maker) |
| |DPD 1.5 Graphic Designing using CorelDraw and |
| |PhotoDraw |
|02 |Semester II |
| |DPD 2.1 Bitmap Image editing using Photoshop |
| |DPD 2.2 Color management |
| |DPD 2.3 Illustrator |
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| |Elective Paper |
| |DPD-E-1 Kannada Software Nudi |
| |DPD E-2 Web designing in Dream weaver |
| |DPD 2.5 Project |
DPD 1.1 : Fundamentals of Printing and Publishing
Unit 1: Types of Printing
Introduction - Letterpress printing - Lithography - Offset Printing,
Principles involved in different printing processes , Machines for
letterpress, Offset, Gravure, Flexography and Screen Printing, Web Offset,
Printing Materials, Print Design and Products , Factors involved in Print
planning, Typography and Design
principles, Unit 2: Processes involved in Printing
various kinds of printed products , their formats, Designing factors,
colour application, Film Assembly and Plate Making , Binding And Finishing,
Fonts and Graphics Font styles - Dimensions of Fonts - Loading and
operating vernacular font, different types of fonts - Text File Formats ,
Vector Graphics - Raster Graphics - Graphic file formats. Unit 3: Typesetting
Selection of Types of various jobs , Style of the House, style of the work
casting off, Typesetting for various kinds of jobs, Proofing methods.
,Basic structure of Computer, Hardware , Input and Output Devices,
Software , operating system; , Software used in Desktop Publishing; Digital
imaging method, Scanners, Image Editing, Colour Correction, Colour
Management, Laser Printer Paper, Poly master , Methods of Colour Proofing,
Care and Maintenance of Computer Division. Unit 4: Desktop publishing
DTP operator's arsenal - Page setting, Character, level & paragraph level
formatting -
Hyphenation - alignments -indentation - single sided and double sided
documentation. Generic process in DTP. DPD 1.2 Computer concepts
Unit-I
Introducing Computer Systems, The Computer defined, Computers for
individual users, Computers organizations, The parts of a computer system,
The information processing,cycle, Essential computer hardware. Interacting
with Computer, The Keyboard - The standard keyboard layout, How the
computer accepts, input from the keyboard, The Mouse, Variants of the
mouse. Inputting data in, other ways - Devices for the hand, Optical Input
Devices, Audiovisual Input, Devices. Video and sound - Monitors, Data
projectors, Sound systems, Printing - Commonly used printers - Dot Matrix
Printers, Ink Jet Printers, Laser
Printers. Basic Concept - Binary Cell, Semiconductor memory. Types of
Memory - RAM and ROM in detail, Memory Chips: RAM and ROM EPROM
Unit-II Input Devices and Output Devices
Keyboard, Point and Draw Devices - Mouse, Trackball, Joystick, Electronic
pen, Touch Screen. Data Scanning Devices: Image Scanner: Flat-Bed and Hand-
held Scanner, Optical Character Recognition Device, Optical mark reader,
Bar-Code Reader, Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition. Digitizer. Electronic-
card Reader. Voice Recognition Devices. Vision-Input System, Monitors
Printers: Dot-Matrix Printers, Inkjet Printers, Laser Printers. Screen
Image Projector. Voice Response Systems: Voice Reproduction System, Speech
Synthesizer Unit-III Secondary Storage Devices
Secondary Storage Devices: Limitations of primary storage, Sequential and
Direct- Access Devices. Magnetic Disk, Basic principle of operation,
Storage Organization, Storage Capacity, Access mechanism, Access Time: Seek
Time, Latency, Transfer Rate. Disk Formatting, Disk Drive, Disk Controller,
Types of Magnetic Disks, Hard Disks: Zip Disks, Disk Packs, Winchester
Disk, Advantages and Limitations of Magnetic Disks, Uses of Magnetic
Disks. Optical Disk, Basic principle of operation, Storage organization,
Storage capacity, Access Mechanism, Access Time, Optical Disk Drive, Types
of Optical Disks: CD-ROM, WORM Disk, Advantages and Limitations of Optical
Disks, Uses of Optical Disks. Unit- IV Computer Software
What is Software? Relationship between Hardware and Software, Types of
Software: System Software, Application Software, Functions of System
Software, Type of System Software: Operating Systems, Language Translators,
Utility Programs, Communications Software. Application Software, Commonly
Used Application Softwares: Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Database,
Graphics Personal Assistance, Education, Entertainment Software. Logical
System Architecture showing relationship between hardware, system software,
application software and users of a computer system. Firmware, operating
system, Different functions of operating system, Introduction to DOS and
Windows, System files, booting sequence, Internal and external commands.
Batch files REFERENCES 1. Computer Concepts Basics, Dolores J Wells, Publisher: Course Technology
,Edition Number: 4 , ISBN: 1423904621,EAN: 9781423904625, Publish Date:
2008-12-31
2. Computer Concepts: Illustrated Brief, Dan Oja, ISBN: 0538749547,
Edition:8 , Publisher:Course Technology
3. Computer Concepts And C Programming , Kumar, Udaya;
Jeyapoovan; [pic]ISBN: 8125916458[pic], EAN: 9788125916451[pic],
Edition: Paperback[pic], Publisher: Vikas Publishing House[pic]
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PUBLISHERS, ISBN: 8188849308 DPD 1.3 Introduction to fundamentals of Word Processing
Unit-1
Notepad, word pad and Ms Word, Using Tools and Menus, Working in Documents,
Cutting, Copying, and pasting, Saving a Document, Getting Help, Advantages
of Word Processing under Windows, Various Word Processors available under
Windows. Opening a New Document, Opening an Existing Document, Recently
opened files, Opening from the Documents menu, Exporting and Importing
Files, Setting Up Your Pages, Choosing page Size and Orientation, Changing
page Size, Changing Orientation, Setting Margins, Centering Page,
Controlling Page Breaks, Typing in the Document, Inserting Today's Date
Moving Around in the Document, Creating Sections, Inserting a Section
break, Formatting a Section, Viewing Sections, Using Columns, Numbering
Pages, On Your Own, Saving a File, Quitting Word Unit-2 Formatting Text
Formatting Characters, Choosing Fonts, Enhancing Text Appearance, Inserting
Special Characters, Changing Character Spacing, Formatting Paragraphs,
Aligning Paragraphs, Indenting Paragraph, Setting Tabs, Changing Line
Spacing, Adding Borders and Shading Creating a Bulleted List, Creating a
Numbered List On Your Own, Selecting Styles, Selecting Text, Deleting Text,
Correcting Mistakes, Using Undo, Using Redo, Using Auto Correct, Moving
Text, Using Menu Commands to Move Text, Using Drag,and,Drop Editing _
Copying text, Checking Your Document, Finding and Replacing Text, Finding
Text _ Replacing Text, Checking Your Spelling, Checking Your Grammar,
Looking Up Words in the Thesaurus, Inserting a Picture from the Clip Art
Gallery, Inserting a Picture, Adding a Border. Unit-3 Creating Headers and Footers
Adding Footnotes and Endnotes, Working with Tables and Graphics, Use a
Wizard to help create and format a table, Enter and edit data in a table,
Add borders and shading to a table, Convert a table to text, Add clip art
to a document, Using Wizard to Create and Format a Table, Starting the
Table Wizard, Using Table Auto Format, Entering Data into a Table, Moving
Around in the Table, Entering Text, Working with Columns and Rows,
Inserting and Selecting Columns and Rows, Deleting Columns and Rows,
Inserting Columns and Rows, Changing Cell Height, Adding Borders and
Shading, Applying Shading, Converting Text into a Table Unit-4 Mail Merge
Mail Merge, Templates, Wizards and Printing Techniques, Understanding
Templates Using Templates. Using Wizards, Printing Techniques, Viewing the
Document before Printing, Print Preview, Printing Your Document. Creating a
PDF document and email attachments Reference:
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7008-881-X , Edition : Second, 2006
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First, 2008
3. Fundamentals of Information Technology Including MS Office ,Dinesh
Maidasani , Jai Narayan Yadav , ISBN : 81-318-0037-7 ,Edition : First,
2007
4. MS OFFICE ACCESS 2007 BIBLE W/CD ,by MICHAEL R GROH / JOSEPH C
STOCKMAN / GAVIN POWELL
5. MASTERING VBA FOR MS OFFICE 2007 ,by RICHARD MANSFIELD
6. COMDEX COMPU