Desk Top Publishing coursework girl scouts leaflet

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Background

Miss Darling is the president of a girl-scout group called the Green Peacocks. The Green Peacocks was established in 1960 by her grandmother Mrs. Darling. This club was created to teach young girls between the ages of 5 – 16 years the usefulness of friendship, teamwork and training. The club is located in North Finchley.

Statement of the problem

At the moment, the Green Peacocks are attended poorly because of the insufficient equipment and facilities and advertisement. This is because the leaflets are hand-written which is boring and hard top understand. Most of the time, people throw the leaflets away because they don’t understand the writing and think it is too boring.

This year she wants me to create a leaflet containing the aims, activities, places visited and the awards achieved at the end of each year.

Consideration of Alternate Solutions

  1. A leaflet could be designed and written up by hand and then photocopied and handed out to people. This leaflet would contain all the necessary information but the problem with this idea is that the information may not be clear and the leaflet will be very unattractive.
  2. A word processor could be used to type up the leaflets as well as insert graphics and fancy headings. This solution will be better than using freehand and it will look more professional. This solution is not as good because this computer package is not as flexible as using a desk top publishing package.
  3. The best and most important alternative solution is the ICT solution using the chosen package- in this case is the Microsoft publisher. The desktop publisher can be used to type up leaflets and insert graphics and fancy headings.
  • The publisher package is frame based (texts and graphics are placed inside a frame). This is an advantage because the frames can be arranged in layers on top of each other. This is very useful if a text wants to be placed on top of a graphic.
  • The publisher package must also have a design wizard to help give help when creating common types of publication.
  • This package should also contain a variety of fonts in a large quantity to suit the project which is being created. The fonts should also be to be resized however the user requires.
  • A good publisher package should have styles to allow the user to define the font style, colour and size of the text. Once the style has been defined, it can be applied to any part of the text whenever it is necessary. This process saves a lot of time and allows the text to be consistent throughout the publication
  • A good publisher package should also provide borders to allow the whole package to stand out,
  • A good publisher package should have a large variety of colours which will be used to fill in areas of the page or make text, borders and lines to stand out more.
  • A good publisher should also contain the ability to provide character and line spacing. The spacing between the characters of the text can be adjusted by a feature called KERNING.
  • Publisher packages should offer the facility which allows the user to set up the pages of a publication to have a certain number of text columns.

After consideration of each method I believe that the MS Publisher is the best option to solve this problem because:

  1. The DTP package can provide the user with the ability to insert colour, clipart as well as character and line spacing between the characters which gives the publication a more professional look to it.
  2. This package also provides a design wizard to give us an idea on how the publication is meant to look
  3. The DTP package is frame based which allows different things to be placed on top of each other.
  4. The DTP package has a lot of fonts and allows the user to pick the one that suits the publication and it also allows the user to resize the fonts as she desires.
  5. This package also provides borders to a publication to stand out and look sophisticated.
  6. If the user would like to create a newsletter or newspaper, the DTP provides the facility to allow the publication to have a certain number of text boxes.

User Requirements

The objectives of this publication are as follows:

  1. The leaflet must be portable (easy for people to carry around and refer to)
  2. The leaflet must be on A4 paper so it can be easily reproduced on a photocopier
  3. It must identify the name of the club
  4.  It must have the aim, activities, places visited, the awards gained at the end of each year and the ages of the girls to attend
  5. The leaflet must contain pictures of previous and current Green Peacocks and it must contain the comments made by some of the participants of this club.
  6. It must not have any spelling or grammatical error
  7. It must have a map for the location of the club
  8. The leaflet should have the clubs logo
  9. the leaflet must be folded
  10. It should contain the table showing the statistics of the fees.
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Appropriate Software and Hardware

The software required to complete this programme is the Microsoft Publisher which is software that can be used to create the leaflet for the Green Peacocks. I will also need a word processor to type in the information about the club. For the production of this publication, I will need a graphics programme such as the Paint Shop Pro to create a logo for the club and I will also use the graphics programme to manipulate the pictures. I will also need web browser software to allow me to ...

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