Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Multimedia Applications
Store multimedia teaching materials in the school learning management system for
students to download.
Use projectors to show videos of school activities to students in the school hall.
Multimedia simulations can help students understand the abstract and complicated
concepts.
Multimedia elements can be incorporated in the e-book to enrich the users viewing
experience.
E-books are more environmental friendly than printed books. (any three 1)
Disadvantages:
Printed books can be read anywhere without the use of any hardware or software. (1)
There is an initial cost for setting up hardware and software of the e-book production
system. (1)
(b)
A flatboard scanner is needed for scanning pictures, photographs, written essays, poems
etc. (1)
A digital camera is needed for capturing digital photos of students and the campus. (1)
A digital video camera is needed for recording class activities in digital format. (1)
Text
Text colour
Underlined text
Paragraph justification
Paragraph indentation
Advanced functions such as mail merge, spelling check and thesaurus are usually
provided.
Application objects such as spreadsheets or presentation slides can be included.
(any three 1)
(b)
All text and paragraph formatting features (1)
Long Questions
1. (a) (i) Students may be unable to open the document if they do not have Microsoft Word installed
in their computers. (2)
(ii) Protect the word processing documents using a password so that students can only read but
cannot modify the documents. (2)
(b) Yes. Plain text files can be opened by any text editor. / No. Text and paragraph formatting
features and images cannot be preserved in plain text files. (any one 2)
(c) (i)
PDF documents can be readily opened using Adobe Reader which can be downloaded
from the Web for free.
By configuring the security settings of the parent letter in PDF format, students
cannot modify the letter easily.
A PDF file can be digitally signed so that students can verify that the parent letters are
sent from the school. (any two 2)
(ii) Adobe Reader (1)
(iii)
Use Adobe Reader or other PDF generating software such as PDF995 and
FlashPaper.
Make use of the PDF online generating service on the Adobes web site.
Graphics
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Aspect ratio of High resolution =
3, 264
1.782 :1 ( 16 : 9) (1)
Aspect ratio of Special resolution = 1,832
(ii) Taking widescreen photo for landscape scenery (1) (or any reasonable answer)
(d)
Photo quality
Compression ratio
File size
Normal
High
Small
Fine
Medium
Medium
Super Fine
Low
(e) Brightness / contrast / alpha control (any one 1)
Large
(1)
(1)
Long Questions
1. (a) Folder B. (1) The file size of each photo in folder B is smaller due to its lower colour depth and
resolution. (1) It is less likely to exceed the size limit of the attachment. (1)
(b) (i) Folder A. (1) The photos in folder A are of higher quality when resized. (2)
(ii) Reason: The aspect ratio of the screen and that of the photos are different. (2)
Solution: Crop or trim the photos to match the aspect ratio of the screen. (1) Fill the whole
screen by tiling the photos. (1)
(c) Estimated size of the uncompressed BMP file
= 1,840 1,230 pixels 24 bits/pixel (1)
= 54,316,800 bits
= 6,789,600 bytes
6,630.5 KB (1)
(d) The amount of details to be shown on the photo depends on the compression ratio of a JPEG
photo. (1) The higher the compression ratio, the fewer the details can be shown and the smaller
is the file size. (2)
2. (a) (i) JPG / JPEG. (1) It supports high compression ratio with reasonable image quality. / It
supports 24-bit colour depth. (any one 2) OR
BMP / TIFF. (1) All image details are retained without loss of quality. (2)
(ii) Reduce the colour depth of the photos. (1)
Reduce the resolution / dimensions / size of the photos. (any one 1)
(b) Image rotation: When the object taken by the camera is not erect / the photo is taken in portrait
mode, (1) this function enables the user to obtain an erect image of the object / to obtain a photo
in landscape mode. (1) Brightness and contrast control: When the photo taken is too bright or
too dark, (1) this function allows the user to obtain reasonable brightness. (1)
(c) (i) The resolution of the online photos is lower to reduce the downloading time.
(ii) The low-resolution image is a bitmap image. (2)
(d) it is because the computer screen uses RGB to reproduce colours (1) while the inkjet printer
uses CMYK. (1)
3. (a) (i) Version A: Bitmap graphics / raster graphics (any one 1)
Version B: Vector graphics (1)
(ii) Version B. (1) The logo can be magnified without loss of image quality. (1)
(b) Vector graphics are composed of lines, arcs and fills stored in the form of mathematical
formulas. (2) Bitmapped graphics store images in the form of a rectangular grid of pixels. (2)
(c) (i) Fig. b: Vector graphics (1)
Fig. c: Bitmap graphics / raster graphics (any one 1)
(ii) Image in Fig. c (1)
(iii) Designing a poster or a banner for school activities such as anniversary. (2)
(d)
Font
Type
Bitmapped font (1)
Truetype font / vector font / outline font (any one 1)