Daily Dose of DTP - Online Version & Final Exam

online lessons and six quizzes to test yourself

Take the Daily Dose of DTP class online or by email. Once you've successfully completed the Daily Dose of DTP introductory email class it's time to see how much you've learned. If you want to review first or prefer to take the class online, the lessons are all linked in the class outline, below. The final exam is composed of 6 separate multiple choice and matching quizzes - one associated with each section of the class. The three multiple choice quizzes range in length from 5 to 10 questions. The three matching quizzes are single pages where you match 10 or 20 items with a description. Each quiz in the final exam is linked below and in the sidebar.

If you prefer, instead of doing all 6 quizzes at the end of the class you may do each quiz as you complete each section or associated group of lessons in the class. Take them again at the end to see if you can improve your score.

For those following the class online: The lesson links, below, are close duplicates to the email version. They include trivia and tips not found in the actual glossary, tutorial, or article that makes up each lesson. Reading each newsletter is just as important as reading the associated lesson.

General Concepts
1. What is Desktop Publishing?
   (Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design, & Web Design)
2. Paging All Designers
   (Page Layout)
3. Is Prepress Anything Like Permanent Press?
   (Prepress)
4. It's a Print!
   (Printing, Printing Presses)
5. Elements: Not Just for Design Geeks
   (Elements of Design)
6. Well-Behaved Pages
   (Principles of Design)
7. It's Just Fonts, Right?
   (Typography)
8. Compose Yourself, It's Only Words
   (Text Composition)
   • General Concepts Quiz - 5 multiple choice questions

   Things You Need

9. Grid-Lock is a Good Thing
   (Templates and Grids)
10. It's Greek To Me
    (Greeking and Lorem Ipsum)
11. The Softer Side of Desktop Publishing
    (Page Layout Software and Graphics Software)
    • Things You Need Quiz - matching 10 terms/descriptions

    Fonts

12. Que Serif, Serif
    (Serif, Sans Serif)
13. When in Rome...
    (Roman, Italic, Blackletter)
14. Be True to Your Type
    (TrueType, OpenType, PostScript Type 1)
    • Fonts Quiz - 5 question multiple choice

    Images

15. Everyday Resolutions
    (DPI, LPI, SPI, PPI)
16. The Art & Science of Graphics
    (Bitmap and Vector)
17. Pictures in Print
    (TIFF and EPS)
18. Pictures in Pixels
    (GIF and JPG)
    • Images Quiz - matching 10 terms/descriptions

    Prepress & Printing

19. How Many Colors?
    (CMYK, Spot Color)
20. How Many Separate Colors?
    (Separations)
21. On the Hunt for Color Gaps
    (Trapping)
22. Show Me Some Proof
    (Proofs & Press Checks)
23. Here's the Proof in B/W or Color
    (Contact, Digital, Overlay, & Laminate Proofs)
24. At Your Service
    (Service Bureaus)
25. PS, Check Your Toner
    (Laser Printing, PostScript)
26. Inkspots
    (Inkjet and other ink-based Printing)
27. Stop the Presses! No, Start the Presses!
    (Relief, Intaglio, Offset Printing & Printing Plates)
28. The Finish Line (Sort of)
    (Finishing Techniques)
    • Prepress & Printing Quiz - 20 items to match (harder than you might think)

    Rules & Tasks
    
    12 Rules of Desktop Publishing

29. One Space or Two?
    
30. No More Double Hard Returns
    
31. Use Fewer Fonts
    
32. Smoothing Out the Ragged Edges
    
33. Right Down the Middle
    
34. How Long is the Line?
    
35. STOP SHOUTING
    
36. Punctuate Like a Pro
    
37. You've Been Framed
    
38. Cut the Clip Art Clutter
    
39. Give Me Some Space
    
40. It's Not My Default
    

    How a Desktop Publishing Document is Created

41. The Desktop Document
    
42. Bring Out the Designer in You
    
43. Where the Desktop Publishing Begins[
    
44. It's Not What You Say But How You Say It
    
45. A Picture Is Worth... Doing Right
    
46. Getting Ready to Get it Printed
    
47. Getting It Printed
    
48. The Final Exam
    Links back to this page but also includes additional information worth reading.
    • Rules & Tasks Quiz - 10 question multiple choice

If you no longer have the email version of a lesson use the lost lessons page to retrieve the missing lesson for review or use the online version of each lesson, linked above.