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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to produce desktop published documents
   • Use safe work practices including addressing ergonomic requirements and using work organisation strategies
   • Use energy and resource conservation techniques
   • Identify document purpose, audience, presentation and final output requirements, and clarify with relevant personnel as required
   • Identify organisational and task requirements for desktop published documents to ensure consistency of style and image
2. Design desktop published documents
   • Design document to enhance readability and appearance, according to organisational and task requirements
   • Determine document type and assess production and design requirements
   • Set up and use master pages, templates and styles to ensure consistency of design and layout
   • Set up colour palettes according to organisational and task requirements
3. Create desktop published documents
   • Prepare, format and enter required text
   • Import text from other applications and resolve any formatting issues
   • Scan or import graphics from other applications and resolve any formatting issues
   • Use complex software functions to arrange text and graphics on page, according to organisational and task requirements
4. Finalise desktop published documents
   • Ensure pages and combined graphics and text are composed correctly, to suit organisational and task requirements
   • Check numerical sequencing and layout of document is correct, to meet binding and finishing requirements
   • Incorporate bleed allowance in margins and borders
5. Produce desktop published documents
   • Review text for possible errors and omissions, and resolve any issues
   • Produce completed document in line with required final output
   • Name and store text documents, in accordance with organisational requirements and exit application without information loss/damage
   • Prepare text documents within designated timelines and organisational requirements for speed and accuracy
   • Use manuals, user documentation and online help to overcome problems with document design and production