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Multimedia

• Is the integration of text, graphics, sound, video and animation into a single document.

• This document can be a letter, brochure, newsletter, web page, presentation or movie

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• It is not necessary for the document to contain all forms of media in order to be considered multimedia.

• Two or more media elements make a document multimedia

Image Management

• Applies to the use of graphics in documents.

• The size of the files, the number of files, the type of colors used are part of the image management

Graphics

• Everything on a page that is not TEXT.

Multimedia and image management

• Together they communicate a message, and the success of a business often depends on the effectiveness of this message.

Desktop Publishing History

• 1961 – IBM Selectric typewriter with Golfball head– Allowed the user for the first time to change

the font and size on the same page.– 10 cpi – pica to 12 cpi - elite– Adding graphics required scissors and glue.

1984

• Apple Macintosh and Image Writer printer allowed for varying font sizes, fonts, landscape and portrait printing.

• Graphics could be digitally added to a document.

• Scanning was done through the printer by replacing the cartridge.

1985

• Aldus PageMaker made it possible for desktop publishing as we know it today.

• It allowed for columns and justified text.

Printers

• Dot Matrix – first printers– Also called impact printers– The head hit a ribbon which created a series of

dots that formed letters.• In 1985, the Apple Laser Writer appeared

making the text smooth• 1991 – Hewlett Packard Deskjet made color

printouts affordable for the average user

Graphics

• Mac Paint and Mac Draw were early products

• 1989 – Corel Draw• 1990 – Adobe Photoshop

• These programs increased the user’s ability to fine turn artwork and to create renderings that had never been possible through paint and pen.

Hardware

• 1991 – Hewlett Packard Scan Jet became affordable

• OCR(Optical Character Recognition) software improved. – A scanner would transfer previously typed text

to a computer with enough accuracy to eliminate the need to retype it.

Storage Hardware

• 1995 – Iomega Zip Drive– Allowed for lots more storage.

• Writeable CD ROM’s/ DVD’s

Web Pages

• Modems allowed computers to talk to one another.

• This allowed the internet to boom.• 1992 Mosaic – the first Web Browser• 1994 Netscape came out• These browsers made it possible to manage

text, graphics, and sound with ease.• HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language

Power Point

• 1987 it was created.• It allowed a user to create business

documents that provide information in a colorful, interactive, and dramatic format.

• Projectors dropped in price with the improvement of DLP.– Digital Light Processing – uses mirrors to reflect

an image on a screen