Publishing is the final act of presenting your work to the teacher, other students, general public, and many other possibilities.
The web page you are looking at right now was made using a css template, ie typing into a web site.
We had to click, the publish button, to finally make this page available to you.
A colour profile is an expected colour characteristic.
The International Color Consortium (ICC) sets colour standards.
The profile can be embedded into image files to specify its expected data (appearance)
The colour you see on a monitor in Photoshop should be what you print out. This is what colour profiles is hoping to achieve, exact true colours.
Devices have different profiles, for example; Input profiles (like scanning). Monitor profiles (on screen RGB), and Print profiles (like CMYK)
Layers means having objects on different depths.
This is done by putting one object over another object.
In this course you may have used Photoshop or Illustrator to make a poster. These software use layers as a means of moving items around for effect. Layers can help the illusion of 3D form.
Frames are containers to hold text and images. These help position images and text to stay in parts of a page, especially webpages.
A storyboard could be a type of frame (or a template)
What typography are you going to choose for your finished product. What size and type font? Align left/centre/right?
Some say serif is better for hard copy
Some say sans serif is better to read on the screen.
What do you think? See wikipedia under readability and legibility for another opinion.
To publish, is to make the final product with your work.
What does that final product look like?
A piece of paper with your assignment on it and you may print it out, or upload it to a school intranet as the final thing. Or email it to a teacher.
Is the final product a website? You may display that to the whole world, or just on your computer in a browser.
Is it a poster for your sports carnival or arts day? Send it off to Officeworks and they will print out at any size you want. You can post it publically to promote your event.
Is it a brochure you made for the local real estate agent? They will get 10,000 of them printed and ask you and your friends to start putting them into letter boxes.
Printing to hard copy is one choice.
Displaying on a screen of some kind is another choice. Is it a PDF? A kindle story? An app for a phone?
What are the common choices for where people could put items they have got printed out?
What are the common choices for where people could display digital products?
When was the last time you made a PDF of a document and emailed it to someone? (you just published it)
Digital publication usually branded by a company eg PDF by Adobe
Software app used to deliver content
Look and styled to belong to a brand.
epub used by many publishing programs for mobile devices
ePub
ePub is a group of files zipped together into a publication
the extension name is .epub
short for electronic publication
is an open ebook standard set by the international digital publishing forum
it has embedded metadata
it can optimise text for a particular display type
can be opened by iPhones, android, iPads,
can have digital rights management inbuilt into the file, good for copyright
is called .pdf
stands for portable document format
much software can save as pdf. For example MS word, Pages, Excel, inDesign,
it seems to be a standard that everybody can open
it used to be safe as it was difficult to modify. ie your document couldn't be changed.
it is very useful to attach pdfs in an email as then most people can open them. Not everybody uses MS word, or Pages
indd
is an Adobe inDesign document commonly used for digital publications
called desktop publishing software
commonly used to make brochures, school yearbooks, posters
it brings together images and text to make digital solutions for web or print
it exports easily to normal pdf, interactive pdf, ePub, flash, HTML, shockwave
Get together with a friend and make a list of software that can export or save as PDFs. See if you can get to 10.
Which devices can open ePubs?
What does PDF stand for?
What is an advantage of sending a PDF by email?
Name two industry standard desktop publishing software. Hint one is mentioned on this webpage. You will need to research its main competitor.
Find out what software your school uses to make its annual yearbook.
Learn more from ePub standard
We have looked at different types of publications.PDFs, ePubs. Indd
Why is one better or worse than another?
ePub (electronic publication)
Advantages
ePub is delivered as one zipped file
when opened on small devices are easy to unpack and easy to layout on the screen
Very user friendly and can be opened easily on many devices.
Not owned by a large corporation, large market
Disadvantages
Creating or making an ePub document is not easy to do.
Creating the zip archive for publishing is also difficult
PDF (portable document format)
Advantages
Can be opened by most computers.
Gives you control over the layout and fonts.
They can be made by many different pieces of software. Word, Excel, Powerpoint., Pages and lots more
The reader software for PDF is free. Adobe Reader.
It used to be safe as it was difficult to modify. ie your document couldn't be changed.
Easy to attach to email and upload to websites without trouble.
Disadvantages
PDFs can sometimes not display correctly on smaller screens such as smartphones
It is not free to edit PDFs. You need to buy software to do this.
Editing PDFs is not easy. It is much easier to edit a word or pages document
INDD (indesign document)
Advantages
Easy to export to a variety of formats, especially PDF for printing
Very powerful package that can make a single A1 size page to print for a large poster, or can make a 1000 page book
You can modify image sizes within inDesign.
Disadvantages
It is expensive.
Can be a bit difficult to learn at first.
Make a three column table and summarise the details from above into the table in your own words.