FPF:UBKINSNK25 Professional Typesetting - Course Information
UBKINSNK25 Professional Typesetting
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Anna Novotná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Anna Novotná, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Course is available to all students.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Information Studies (programme FPF, KNIH-nav)
- Course objectives
- The objective of this subject is to teach students to work with desktop publishing systems and to help them create different types of documents. Obtained knowledge and skills should help them write academic works and present their ideas at conferences.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- identify rules that need to be maintained when creating documents;
- create different types of documents;
- present ideas and results of his/her work in an appropriate way. - Syllabus
- 1. Typography
- 2. Typeface - Font Classification, Typometric System, Typographic Font
- 3. Typesetting - Canons of Page Construction, Normal Typesetting, Technical Typesetting, Foreign Language Typesetting, Typesetting of Czech Language, Proofs
- 4. Print design - Book, Article, Poster Design
- 5. DTP Software - Definition, Types, Basics of Work in DTP, Application of Typesetting Rules in the DTP System
- 6.-12. Typesetting of Book, Article, Poster
- Literature
- required literature
- BLAŽEK, Filip. Typokniha: průvodce tvorbou tiskovin. 2. vydání. V Praze: UMPRUM, 2022. 279 stran. ISBN 978-80-88308-70-6.
- KNYTL, Martin a KŘIVÁNKOVÁ, Lucie. Typografie & odborný text: průvodce pro zpracování nejen závěrečných prací. Vydání: první. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2020. 198 stran. ISBN 978-80-7435-813-5.
- recommended literature
- ANTON, Kelly Kordes a DEJARLD, Tina. Adobe InDesign CC: 2019 release. San Jose: Adobe Press, [2019], ©2019. xvii, 429 stran. Classroom in a book: the official training workbook from Adobe. ISBN 978-0-13-485250-8.
- WAKIMOTO, Diana Kiyo. Easy graphic design for librarians: from color to kerning. Chicago: ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2018. xiii, 154 stran. ISBN 978-0-8389-1593-6.
- TSCHICHOLD, Jan. Nová typografie. Překlad Eva Císlerová. Vydání první. Praha: UMPRUM, 2021. 229 stran. Legenda; 1. svazek. ISBN 978-80-88308-13-3.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, tutorial sessions, regularly assigned and evaluated home tasks.
Exercises - Assessment methods
- Credit
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hod/sem. - Teacher's information
- There is electronic course prepared ISSU.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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