National Skill Training Institute(W)

During the one-year duration of Desktop Publishing Operator trade, a candidate is trained on Professional Skill, Professional Knowledge and Employability Skill related to job role. In addition to this, a candidate is entrusted to undertake project work and extracurricular activities to build up confidence. The broad components covered under Professional Skill subject are as below: During the course the trainee learns about safety and environment, use of fire extinguishers. They learn about trade tools, identifies computer peripherals, internal components, Windows interface and its related software, installation process. Trainees will work with MS Office package to create word document. They will use internet to search information using browser along with official/ social communication process. The trainees will work with publication software like Adobe PageMaker to create, edit, format different publication using Publication Software. They also learn and experience application software with Quark Xpress to create and edit complex page layout for publication. In this semester, the trainees also learn to use scanner and to scan documents. At the end of this semester trainees can go on industrial visit or projects specified in the syllabus. The trainee learns to edit, manipulate and enhance graphics or images to improve their overall appearance using Adobe Photoshop. They will go through the application CorelDraw to edit vector graphics. The trainees will learn and experience Adobe In Design to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, and books. They also learn one bilingual software to create publications or documents in regional language. Finally, the trainees will learn and experience to print the publication/ document/ images/ graphics and publish it. At the end of this semester, trainees can go on industrial visit or projects specified in the syllabus.