Computer Typesetting & Desktop Publishing

Duration: 120h

Lectures: 20

Level: Certificate

Type: Part Time

Medium: Sinhala

The Sri Lanka Institute of Printing conducts a certificate course in Computer Typesetting & Desktop Publishing for those who are interested in computing text with the aid of Computers and pursuing a career in Desk top Publishing and Print/Graphic Industry.

 Course Outline:

  • Introduction to Computers (Hardware & Software for Desktop Publishing)
  • Introduction to Windows Operating Systems
  • Word Processing using MS Word
  • Introduction to font families
  • Keyboard Training and developing typing speed
  • Creating, Saving, Open new documents an templates, font styles, effects and leading, Paragraph specifications, tables and tabs, letter formats, mail merge and creating layouts
  • Page Make-up methods using Adobe PageMaker
  • Page Make -up methods using Adobe InDesign