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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material. | Check preliminary and final proofs for errors and make necessary corrections. | |||
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Operate desktop publishing software and equipment to design, lay out, and produce camera-ready copy. | ||||
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View monitors for visual representation of work in progress and for instructions and feedback throughout process, making modifications as necessary. | ||||
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Enter text into computer keyboard and select the size and style of type, column width and appropriate spacing for printed materials. | ||||
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Store copies of publications on paper, magnetic tape, film or diskette. | ||||
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Position text and art elements from a variety of databases in a visually appealing way to design print or web pages, using knowledge of type styles and size and layout patterns. | ||||
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Enter digitized data into electronic prepress system computer memory, using scanner, camera, keyboard, or mouse. | ||||
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Edit graphics and photos using pixel or bitmap editing, airbrushing, masking, or image retouching. | ||||
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Import text and art elements such as electronic clip-art or electronic files from photographs that have been scanned or produced with a digital camera, using computer software. | ||||
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Prepare sample layouts for approval, using computer software. | ||||
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Study layout or other design instructions to determine work to be done and sequence of operations. | ||||
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Load floppy disks or tapes containing information into system. | ||||
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Convert various types of files for printing or for the Internet, using computer software. | ||||
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Enter data, such as coordinates of images and color specifications, into system to retouch and make color corrections. | ||||
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Select number of colors and determine color separations. | ||||
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Transmit, deliver or mail publication master to printer for production into film and plates. | ||||
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Collaborate with graphic artists, editors and writers to produce master copies according to design specifications. | ||||
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Create special effects such as vignettes, mosaics, and image combining, and add elements such as sound and animation to electronic publications. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Desktop Publishers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Programming | Writing computer programs for various purposes. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
AT&T Troff | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Actuate DocBook | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat software | Document management software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Flash Player | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe FrameMaker | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Freehand | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe LiveMotion | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe PageMaker | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe PostScript | Development environment software | |||
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AlgoLab Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit | Data conversion software | |||
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Apple AppleScript | Operating system software | |||
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Apple iPhoto | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Arts & Letters Express software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Cascading Style Sheets CSS | Web platform development software | |||
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Cenon software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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CodedColor software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Color management software | Document management software | |||
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Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Corel CorelScan | Optical character reader OCR or scanning software | |||
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Corel OCR-Trace 8 | Optical character reader OCR or scanning software | |||
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Corel Paint Shop Pro | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Corel Photo-Paint | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Corel Ventura | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Corel WebDraw | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Corel WordPerfect software | Word processing software | |||
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Data conversion software | Data conversion software | |||
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Desktop publishing software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Extensible markup language XML | Enterprise application integration software | |||
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GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMP | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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GTX RastorCAD | Data conversion software | |||
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Graphics card driver software | Graphics card driver software | |||
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Graphics software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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GrassHopper PageStream | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Hypertext markup language HTML | Web platform development software | |||
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Inkscape software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Internet browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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JavaScript | Web platform development software | |||
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LaTeX software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office Visio | Charting software | |||
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Microsoft Picture It! | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Publisher | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Microsoft Visual Basic | Development environment software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking | Voice recognition software | |||
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Nuance OmniPage Professional | Optical character reader OCR or scanning software | |||
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Objectif Lune PlanetPress.Suite | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Online image and graphics database software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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OpenOffice.org | Office suite software | |||
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PANTONE ColorVision ProfilerPlus | Optical character reader OCR or scanning software | |||
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PagePlus SE software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Passepartout software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Pattern Stream software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Portable document file creation software | Data conversion software | |||
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Potrace software | Data conversion software | |||
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Printer driver software | Printer driver software | |||
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QuarkXPress | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Raster Graphics software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Scalable vector graphics SVG | Development environment software | |||
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Scribus software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Spelling and grammar checking software | Spell checkers | |||
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Sun Microsystems Java | Object or component oriented development software | |||
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Trix TracTrix | Data conversion software | |||
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Ulead PhotoImpact | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Vector Software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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WordWeb | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Xara X | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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iView MultiMedia software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Pen tablets | Graphics tablets | |||
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Scanners | Scanners | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Advertising Associate | |||
Art Director | |||
Computer Compositor | |||
Computer Operator | |||
Computer Publisher | |||
Computer Typesetter | |||
Creative Director | |||
DTP Operator | |||
Design Editor | |||
Desk Top Publisher | |||
Desktop Publishing Specialist | |||
Digital Pre Press Operator | |||
Document Design Specialist | |||
Editor | |||
Electronic Console Display Operator | |||
Electronic Imager | |||
Electronic Pagination System Operator | |||
Electronic Prepress Operator | |||
Electronic Prepress System Operator | |||
Electronic Publisher | |||
Electronic Publishing Specialist | |||
Graphic Artist | |||
Graphic Designer | |||
Graphics Specialist | |||
Mac Operator | |||
Magazine Publisher | |||
Managing Editor | |||
Online Publisher | |||
Page Makeup System Operator | |||
Prepress Supervisor | |||
Production Artist | |||
Production Assistant | |||
Production Manager | |||
Studio Designer | |||
Technical Editor | |||
Technical Publications Manager | |||
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