Your Questions About Publishing Software Programs

Maria asks…
Starting a high school newspaper program, need some help?
I am a teacher and need some help on finding some educational newspaper publishing software/programs that I could use for this Newspaper/Newsletter my students and I will be putting out at the end of each grading period. If you could help me that would be great. Currently, we use Microsoft Newsletter Templates, but I would love something more glitzy and maybe even put online with the schools website. Not familiar with what ADOBE has to offer, but am willing to learn (thank goodness, because I am a teacher…lol).
Thanks again for the help.

admin answers:
I have just recently started a student newspaper myself for middle schoolers. I am using Adobe INDESIGN. It is a cool program that allows for a lot of creativity. You can get an educational copy of it for at $180, Which is a deal compared to what it normally costs. You can get books to help you learn it or sometimes there are classes available depending on where you live for a minimal cost.
Good Luck.

Laura asks…
I need help with my review questions for my web page design class?
I’m majoring in web page design and I have some review questions that I can’t seem to find the answer to. Hopefully someone can help me.
1. The code for HTML title “Elements of Design” would look like
A.
B. Elements of Design
C. [Title]Elements of Design[/Title]
D. [Center]Elements of Design[/Center]
2. Designers sometimes must adjust the spacing between letters so that the result looks right to them. Is called
A. optical spacing
B. closing a line
C. justifying
D. leading it out
3. If a line of type measures 5 inches (12.5 centimeters) in length, how many picas long is it?
A. 15
B. 25
C. 30
D. 60
4. HTML documents are created by adding what to text?
A. Tables
B. Graphics
C. Links
D. Tags
5. Computer files designed to simplify the layout process and stored electronically as part of a desktop publishing software program are called
A. style manuals
B. style sheets
C. reference files
D. specification sheet
First of all I haven’t been in class cause I’ve been sick and the teacher he’s pretty hard and he won’t help you if you haven’t been in class even if your sick. Most of this stuff was discussed in class and I haven’t been there since last friday. I’m recovering from an illness and I’m contagious and I have a fever so the doctor is making me stay home.

admin answers:
1: A. However, the question as presented does not conform to best practices.
The HTML 4.01 specification recommends that all tags be upper-case, and the XHTML 1.0 specification recommends that all tags be lower-case, so it would properly be (XHTML) or
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-TITLE
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xhtml-basic-20070713/#s_conformance
2. The spacing between lines is called leading; the spacing between characters is called kerning. So there’s no right answer presented here.
As written, the closest correct answer is C, since the other terms are made up or completely inappropriate.
However, “justifying” suggests monospacing the distance between all characters on a line so that the line takes up the entire line length (area between margins). Kerning is the practice of repositioning characters so that the space between them appears appropriate.
Your professor may have confused leading and kerning. Point that out.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/leading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kerning
3. There are 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch. So, if something is 5 inches long, it is 30 picas (or 360 points).
As a totally unrelated aside, the basic measures of 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch is why computer monitor resolution is 72 dpi.
A point is a pixel is a dot. Therefore, whenever someone talks about points, pixels or dots (dpi), they are talking about the same-sized element.
Since there are 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch, that means that 72 points is an inch. You’ll notice that it’s not often a 72-point character is actually an inch tall or inch wide, due to the way fonts are actually designed; but the point is, the character is expected to take up one inch when it is at 72 points.
Since a point, dot and a pixel are the same thing, 72 dpi is also a 1 inch = 1 inch measurement.
So, at a screen resolution of 72 dpi, anything that is supposed to be an inch tall appears to be an inch tall on your screen.
And that’s why, when you work with a 300 dpi image on screen, it wants to show so much bigger than its actual dimensions. In fact, an image at 300 dpi appears about 4.2 times bigger on screen than it actually is.
So, if you scan in a 4in x 5in snapshot at 300 dpi, it will actually appear on screen to be about 17in x 21in. It’s really only 4×5, but because the screen renders 72 dots per inch, it displays an image with a higher resolution much larger than it actually is; because it can’t cram 4.2 pounds of dots into a 1-pound bag, basically.
The same works in reverse. If you scan a 4×5 photo in at 35 dpi, it will show on the screen at about 2×2.5 inches.
Why? Because at 35 dpi, the image has half the resolution of the screen; therefore, it appears half-sized. It is still, in reality, 4×5, and will print out at that size, but the resolution is so low, your screen shrinks it; it tries to make a half-pound of apples fill a one-pound bag, but the same way it can’t stretch the bag, it can’t shrink it, so only the bottom half of the bag is filled.
Toss that out to your professor for extra credit if you want.
4. D. HTML stands for “hyper text markup language.” The “markup” in that means “tags.”
5. B. A style sheet is a series of instructions on how to render named elements. It applies to many programs, not just Web pages; for example, Word, InDesign and XPress all use style sheets.

Betty asks…
to design a software for a book publishing firm?
I’ve just started learning programming with c++ and java,there’s a need for me to do this software for a firm.what is the best possible way to do this??

admin answers:
Dear..
Firstly according to my sense u have to work on java because this is the most growing thing…..this will be best for u and ur firm
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