Desktop Publishing

Question 1

What is a text box?

Answer 1

a box you insert text into.

Question 2

What is Colour fill?

Answer 2

Allows colour to be added to shapes or boxes within a document.

Question 3

What are Handles?

Answer 3

attached to frames to allow manipulation.

Question 4

What are margins?

Answer 4

The white space and borders around the page.

Question 5

What is a title?

Answer 5

Text that introduces the article or subject

Question 6

What is extended Text?

Answer 6

Text consisting of several lines.

Question 7

What is Cropping?

Answer 7

The Background image is taken away from the main image.

Question 8

What is Text Wrap?

Answer 8

When text follows the outline of a graphic.

Question 9

What is Flow text along a path?

Answer 9

text that travels in the same direction as a line or curve.

Question 10

What is the Serif Font?

Answer 10

any typeface which has bars crossing the ends of strokes

Question 11

What is Sans Serif Font?

Answer 11

Sans serif means without serif.
Any typeface which doesn’t have the bars across the ends of strokes.

Question 12

What is Bleed?

Answer 12

An extension of a graphic or block of colour beyond the trimmed edge of a page.

Question 13

What is transparency?

Answer 13

Making fills and images partially see through.

Question 14

What is a Drop Shadow?

Answer 14

A shadow created behind an object or text to create depth and emphasis.

Question 15

What is rotation?

Answer 15

Images and text boxes can be rotated within a document. This helps to create movement and rhythm therefore creating emphasis.

Question 16

What is justification?

Answer 16

Text can be justified right, left, centrally or fully depending on what’s required?

Question 17

What is Paper Sizing?

Answer 17

The physical size of a document. For example. A4, A3, A2, and A1

Question 18

What is reverse?

Answer 18

When the text colour is changed from black to white on a dark background as it creates contrast.

Question 19

What is a column

Answer 19

The width of a frame of the body text. It shortens the line length making it easier to read.

Question 20

What is a gutter?

Answer 20

The narrow space between columns of text.

Question 21

What is a Caption?

Answer 21

a brief description that accompanies a photograph, graphic, or table.

Question 22

What is Bitmap?

Answer 22

An image file comprised of pixels. these tend to be large files.

Question 23

What is Drop Capital?

Answer 23

The first letter (upper case) in an article or paragraph that is enlarged and dropped below the line. Identifies the start of an article.

Question 24

What is eye Dropper/Colour Picker?

Answer 24

A DTP Tool that enables exact colour matching of one colour to another.

Question 25

What are frames?

Answer 25

Non-printing boxes that contain text or graphic items. these can be moved, resized or rotated.

Question 26

What is JPEG?

Answer 26

A common image file type used for photographs. File sizes are relatively small.

Question 27

What is mirror/Reflection?

Answer 27

Creating a symmetrical or opposite image

Question 28

What is portable Network Graphing? (PNG)

Answer 28

A file type that allows the background to be transparent

Question 29

What is a sub-heading?

Answer 29

An intermediate level of heading, having a size between that of the heading and body text.

Question 30

What is a Vector Graphic?

Answer 30

A scalable computer graphic made of shapes, lines and fills.