Plotter and Its Types

Plotter

Plotter is an output device mainly work for printing the graphics content which is of Vector form. Vector Graphics basically uses the sharp lines, curves, shapes to draw an image. By using the Plotter you can print a vector graphics or vector graphic image. Plotter is the first output device which is used to print the vector Graphics content. The plotter not used for printing dots or raster images, it is generally used for Vector graphics in which continuous lines exist to draw an image. Plotter are very costly to purchase and only the big scale organization can buy this. The application of Plotters are Car Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design, Geographical Representation, Earthquake estimation on graphics etc.

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Types of Plotter

Types of Plotter

👉Drum Plotter- As the name suggest, its having a drum as a mechanical part. This drum is used in both the direction ( forward and backward direction) to plot the drawing. The drum plotter is also called roller plotter because of having roller or drum in it. Paper sheet is placed on the roller and roller movement draw on Paper sheet. A mechanical part called Arm is used in Drum plotter for movement of drum in both the direction to draw vector graphics on Paper sheet. This arm having pen and pencil with different colors that move side by side in both direction when roller moves. The ink is used by Arm to plot the continuous lines for creating vector graphics. The Example of using Roller Plotter to represent Earthquake activity by drawing.

👉Flatbed Plotter- This plotter is tabular format like bed sheet. It is having 20-50 feet tabular sheet on which continuous drawing is done by plotter called Flatbed Plotter. It contains two mechanical parts or Arms that have the pens or pencil containing different set of colors to draw the image. These arms are movable and plotting the color on stationary or fixed paper sheet. Its working is slow as compared to Drum Plotter because it contains two arms that consume more time in movement from one coordinates to another particular coordinated on paper sheet. It is used in mainly in big scale drawing like Car designing, Ship designing, Building structure design, etc. that is why it take long time even several hours to draw an Image.          

    

Importance and Advantages of DTP

Desktop publishing has number of importance and advantages but before start, we can understand about the DTP by its definition and its types.

DTP Definition 

DTP is an Acronym of Desktop Publishing which can be break in Desk + Top + Publishing that gives the complete meaning of DTP i.e. the publication on Desk by using Computer System. DTP is used to create the electronic forms by selecting different layout styles and applying the graphics on it so that it can be printed by using printer. DTP follows the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) feature in Hard Copy or printed paper. DTP allows user to create Brochures, Documents, presentations, Banners, Letters, Templates, Pamphlet design and many more. Book publishing and press publishing also uses the DTP software to creating the layout according to use. 

Types of DTP Pages-

Types of DTP Pages

According to the Page Content, we can categorized DTP into two pages namely Electronic and Virtual Pages. Let us understand pages one by one-

☝Electronic Pages- The electronic pages means the pages are used in Digital world like eBooks, Website Pages, online Presentations and digital archives etc. These pages are electronic pages because it is not created for printing purpose. These pages are used for online content creation.

✌Virtual Pages- These pages are used to create for Printing purpose. The virtual pages are actually used to follow the property of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) that illustrate about the hard copy of document is the complete reflection of soft copy(document) created by DTP. Virtual Pages are mainly used for Printing Press, Books Publication, Magazine, Nobel etc.

Importance of DTP

Importance of DTP can be judge by its application in different sectors. The DTP cover the number of sectors for printing the documents or Digital documents creation. The list of Applications that shows the importance of DTP are-

👉Printing Press- The press highly uses the DTP software to create the News Paper on daily basis. Number of News Paper agencies are in market today that shows the importance of printing document creation by DTP.

👉Business- In Business The number of documents are created by DTP software like Legal Certificates, Bond Papers, Authorized Papers, Advertisement Cards etc.

👉Crafts Design- The paper cutting is used to make a good art, generally this is used in kids school. Where Pages designed by DTP software are used to create an impressive art. This is called Crafting and it can be used at several places like home decoration, party decoration, office decoration etc.

👉Personal Projects- We can also use DTP software in such projects where thesis is required in Good Quality and put the Graphics Quality in it. The projects like Greeting Cards, ID Cards, Invitation Cards etc. 

👉Education- In Education sector number of uses of DTP software exist like Brochure, Template, Notes, Books, Presentations, Graphics uses for Article etc.            

👉Career Assistance- We can create Resume, Applications, Letters etc. for our career prospective. The Organizations firstly check the profile of Interviewer by seeing his Resume that provide chances of getting job. For an Example if you are going to face an interview for computer field but in your resume you are not using expert formatting than there will be less chances of selection for that post.

👉Graphics Creation- The DTP software highly used for its graphic quality. The number of  uses for graphics creation are Newspaper, Website Content, Profile pics, Wallpaper, presentation, Brochure, pamphlet etc.

Advantages of DTP 

DTP software has many advantages over normal word processing software like fast document creation, easy customization, Layout etc. Let us discuss major advantages of DTP-

👉Speed- You can create document in less time. The reason behind this is the easy customization of Document. You can drag and drop the object in document without wasting time.

👉Easy Customization- If you are using DTP software for document creation than yo can easily create it by using required customization. Customization means can se different formatting, layout, margin etc. according to user requirement. This feature gives more value to the DTP software.

👉Page Layout- You can use any layout to arrange the text on it. The Layout basically used for content like text or graphics arrangement in the same page. Page Layout attract the stranger to become your customer.

👉Reduced Production Costs- If you design any document than its easy customization and fast creation save production cost. No need to do hard work on production of any kind of document if you are using DTP software. .         

Introduction to Word Processing

Word Processing

Word Processing is a term used to express the word processor activities on document like document creation, document editing, document formatting, document printing etc. The main Components of word processing systems are word processor, printer and a computer system.

Word Processor is a special program that work on word documents and perform the basic operations on it. Word Processor provide the functionality to create a document, edit if required, display it on screen (monitor),  store it in Hard Disk (electronically), type the characters or commands using keyboard and print the document using printer. 

Some of the basic word processor functionality listed below-

👉 Copy/Paste & Cut/Paste- This basic feature of word processing is used to copy content from one place and place it on another place by sing paste option. On other hand Cut option is used to remove text from one place and place it on other place by using paste option.

👉 Find & Replace- This option is used to search text in document by find option or Ctrl + F . The text you ant to search just type in textbox inside find dialogue box. On other hand Replace or Ctrl + H is used to find text first and the write text that can replace the find text.

👉 Printing- This command is used to instruct the printer to print the document.

👉Insert & Delete Text- By this feature you can insert or delete text at any location inside the document.

👉Word Wrap- This feature is used to wrap the text or cover the text using boundary. Whenever your text is out of line it will auto adjust in line using word wrap option.

👉Margin setting- Margin feature is used to create margin from left, right, top or bottom side if required in a document. 

👉Page Size setting- There is also an to adjust the page size according to the requirement for a document.

The above listed basic features are provided by basic word processing software called Text Editor. But if we talk about the standard features of standard word processor than there are a lot of features that are provided. These standard word processing software are called advance word processing software or full featured word processor which have additional features and functionalities like formatting, manipulating document, text alignment, line spacing, paragraph spacing etc. Let us discuss all the standard word processor features given below-

👉Document Formatting- This feature provide different kind of formatting like text formatting (italic, bold, underline, subscript, superscript, lower case, upper case, capitalize first letter of each word) and paragraph formatting (alignment, line spacing, coloring, paragraph ending identification etc.).

👉Mail Merge- This feature provide you to prepare a letter or document and send it to many recipient. This feature provides the isolation of mail between the recipient.

👉Document Layout Setting- You can set document Layout through margin (left, right, top or bottom) and even can set layout by intending the text from either of the direction.

👉Spell and Grammatical Checker- These features are very helpful for those user who have less knowledge of grammar and word vocabulary. By this feature you can check spelling of word and can correct grammatical errors if have.

👉Embed Object feature- full featured word processor also support object embedding option. Object like image, clip arts, smart arts, chart can be embedded in document if required.

👉Header, Footer and Page Number- These features are used to provide header, footer and Page numbering in documents like Title is written in Header Section, Publication is written in Footer Section, Page numbering to identify page number in different number format or alphabet format.

👉Macros Feature- This feature is used to provide time saving command. Macro is a set of keystroke or characters which is used as a command or replacing long text whenever needed.

👉Table Layout- Is used to insert table in document for indexing and other purposes. Word Processor has many option to create it.

👉WYSIWYG- What You See Is What You Get means the document display on monitor will be reflected in hard copy after printing.

👉Page Setup- In this feature you can set the page by using Page Size, Page Orientation (Portrait, Landscape), One page with Columns.

👉Windows- This feature support user to work with different document on different window.

👉Bookmark, Water Mark & Page Border- These features provided in Word Processing to create a page border, Create book mark on page and create water mark to symbolized copyright.    

                

DTP Objective Set_1

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS DESKTOP PUBLISHING & MULTIMEDIA (CA-102)

1) Which of the following is done through DTP:        a) Advertisement Design❌           b) Flex Design❌                 c) Banner Design❌                           d) All of these✅ 2) How many types of Computer Graphics :        a) 2 ✅                        b) 3 ❌                        c) 4 ❌                      d) 5 ❌ 3) Desktop Publishing Abbreviated:        a) dtps ❌                               b) dtpk ❌                               c) dtp✅                      d) dtpv ❌  4) Which of the following printers printing is fastest:        a) Laser✅               b) Inkjet ❌                 c) Drum Printer❌                 d) Dot matrix❌ 5) Which of these is published under DTP:        a) News Letters❌                b) Brochures❌                     c) The Books ❌                              d) All of these✅ 6) Which of the following is done through DTP:         a) Flex Design ❌                             b) Banner Design❌          c) Poster Design❌            d) All of these✅ 7) Which type of graphic size increases, there is no defect in quality?         a) Print Graphic ❌               b) Vector Graphic            c) Raster Graphic ❌            d) None of These❌ 8) Which of these is published under DTP?         a) News Letters❌                b) Brochures ❌                                c) The Books ❌                              d) All of these 9) What type of printer is Dot-Matrix printer?        a) Impact Printers✅           b) Non-Impact Printers ❌               c) Both ❌                d) None of these❌ 10) What type of printer is laser printers:        a) Impact Printers❌           b) Non-Impact Printers✅                c) Both ❌                d) None of these❌ 11) Which of the following is done through DTP:        a) Poster Design ❌                  b) Banner Design ❌           c) Flex Design❌                              d) All of these✅ 12) What is the full form of DTP:        a) Data Publishing❌           b) Desktop Publishing✅        c) Desktop Printing❌                 d) Data Printing❌ 13) In which type of printing ribbon is used:        a) Impact printer✅              b) Non-impact printer❌          c) Drum Printer ❌            d) None of these❌ 14) Which of these is published under DTP:        a) News Letters ❌               b) Brochures ❌                    c) The Books ❌                  d) All of these✅ 15) What type of printer is laser printers:        a) Impact Printers ❌            b) Non-Impact Printers✅                c) Both ❌                d) None of these.❌ 16) Adobe Photoshop is a _____________ Graphics editor.        a) Vector❌                 b) bitmap❌                c) bmp ❌                   d) Raster✅ 17) Passport size photo size( in centimeters)__________        a) 3.5x4.5✅              b) 6.4x1.5❌                c) 5.6x4.5 ❌              d) 6.2x2❌ 18) What is the default extension of Photoshop file____        a) .psd✅                   b) .bmp❌                    c) .cdr❌                                  d) .pmd❌ 19) What is the shortcut key of Ruler?        a) Ctrl + I❌               b) Ctrl + R✅             c) alt + R❌                 d) Ctrl + J❌ 20) Photoshop is product of _______        a) Microsoft❌            b) Apple❌                  c) Adobe✅               d) Mac❌

Desktop Publishing And Multimedia Syllabus For B.Com Computer Application

Unit-I

Importance and Advantages of DTP, DTP Software and Hardware, Commercial DTP Packages, Page Layout Programs, Introduction to Word Processing, Commercial DTP Packages, Difference between DTP Software  and Word Processing Software.

Unit-II

Types of Graphics, Uses of Computer Graphics, Introduction to Graphics Programs, Font and Type Faces, Types of Fonts, Creation of Fonts (Photographer), Anatomy of Type Faces, Printers, Types of Printers used in DTP, Plotter, Scanner.

Unit-III

History and Versions of Page Maker, Creating a new page, Document Setup Dialog Box, Paper Size, Page Orientation, Margins, Different Methods of Placing Text and Graphics in a Document, Master Page, Story Editor, Formatting of Text, Indent, Leading, Hyphenation, Spelling Check, Creating Index, Text Wrap, Position (Superscript/ Subscript), Control Palette.

Unit-IV

History, Multimedia Elements, Text, Image, Animation, Sound and Video, Text, Concept of Plain Text and Formatted Text, RTF and HTML Text, Image, Importance of Graphics in Multimedia, Image Capturing Methods, Scanner, Digital Camera, Sound- Sound and its Effect in, Multimedia, Analog and Digital Sound, Animation, Basics Principles and use of Animation, Video, Basics of Video, Analog and Digital Video.

Unit-V

Features of Multimedia, Overview of Multimedia, Multimedia Software Tools, Multimedia Authoring- Production and Presentation, Graphic File Formats, MIDI- Overview, Concept, Structure of MIDI, MIDI Devices, MIDI Messages.

Objective Questions

1. Desktop Publishing & Multimedia (DTP) Objective Set_1.