Best Practices For Desktop Publishing

Author : Sandee Cohen
Publisher : Peachpit Press
ISBN 13 : 0132965666
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices for Desktop Publishing written by Sandee Cohen and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Practices for Desktop Publishing: A guide for working with InDesign, QuarkXPress, and other page-layout programs Why do some documents look better, more readable, more professional than others? Because some people know the small (and not so small) but important rules to follow when laying out a document. This guide covers all of the rules about dealing with text, images, colors, and files, so your documents will always look slick, inviting, and well put together. You'll learn how to treat your fonts right, how to set up styles for paragraphs and characters, how to flow text around images, how to manage all the tricky aspects of photographs, colors, and objects, and how to work with your print shop. This practical, approachable guide by experienced page-layout expert Sandee Cohen will help you master the art of creating supremely readable documents. Table of Contents: What Are Best Practices? Setting Up Your Document Best Practices for Typography Using Automation Features Text Rules: Don’t Put Two or More... Giving Text the Old Runaround Working with Styles Page Geometry Rules About Rules Empty Objects Picture This! The ABCs of Fonts The Wonderful World of Colors Working with Layers Naming Files Put Your Document on a Diet Sitting Down at the Tables A Final Grab Bag Communicate

Author : Sandee Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132965682
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices for Desktop Publishing written by Sandee Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert C. Eckhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desktop Publishing Secrets written by Robert C. Eckhardt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publish magazine runs two columns, "Tips!" and "Q & A", featuring practical answers to readers' questions and problems, and time-saving techniques for desktop publishers. Now, here are more than 500 of the column's best answers, rewritten for greater clarity and revised to reflect the latest changes in technology.

Author : Ronnie Shushan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572312371
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desktop Publishing by Design written by Ronnie Shushan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid seller for the last eight years, Desktop Publishing by Design offers--in this new fourth edition--a primer for using PageMaker 6 design software to create professional-quality publications. Fully covering design principles and practices using PageMaker, the guide also provides hands-on projects and a portfolio of great design ideas.

Author : Louise Kursmark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564408587
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Open and Operate a Home-based Desktop Publishing Business written by Louise Kursmark and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful home-based desktop publisher herself, author Louise Kursmark shares her experiences and down-to-earth advice to help you estimate start-up costs, manage cash flow, and stay profitable once in business. From painless record-keeping to savvy marketing techniques, Kursmark's step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge Builders written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Wills
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730203
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Tips for Artists, Designers, and Desktop Publishers written by Scott Wills and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the newest references in the practical TIPS series focuses on specific computer-aided design and production tasks and issues for those who work on either the Macintosh or the PC platform for print or electronic publication. Topics include electronic file types and uses, fonts, data storage, scanning and resolution, prepress, color calibration, modems, multimedia, web site design, and much more. Illus.

Author : Simon Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333693438
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering Desktop Publishing written by Simon Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you design to publish on a computer, in print or digital media, then this book is an essential resource. Both the quality and effectiveness of your work will improve through focus on design. This easy-to-follow book describes processes and tools available for successful desktop publishing (DTP), backed up with over two hundred illustrations. It reveals the tricks, secrets and magic ingredients for design in desktop publishing. Recommended for 'in-house' DTP and those studying: 7 communications 7 media 7 business 7 marketing 7 design 7 desktop publishing Mastering Desktop Publishing offers the reader techniques, skills and strategies to achieve effective results in publishing.

Author : Edward A. Hamilton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471285922
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsletter Design written by Edward A. Hamilton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-11-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newsletter Design A Step-by-Step Guide to Creative Publications"Make it dramatic. Make it readable. Make it believable." Words ofadvice to those who plan, design, or edit newsletters from theauthor of Newsletter Design, Edward A. Hamilton. Follow the adviceof this designer of world-renowned publications and your newsletterwill never land in the junk-mail pile. You'll learn techniques usedby the most successful publications to attract readers and rivettheir attention. Included in this step-by-step guide: * Planning visual content * Fast-paced journalistic writing * Forceful page layout * Eye-catching graphics * Strong, clear typography * Powerful photojournalism * Cost-wise production From selecting a name, logotype, and cover design to going onpress, every element of producing a stand-out newsletter isexplained step-by-step in clear language. Principles are expressedin simple terms that apply equally to desktop publishing ortraditional T-square and typewriter. Layouts that are cluttered andcomplex--or bland and austere--can sabotage even the best editorialideas. The author shows you how to avoid the stock, "off-the-shelflook". You'll learn to master simple but powerful page layout,sparkling typography that promotes clarity, strength and elegance.you'll learn how to edit and design with compelling journalisticphotographs and vivid graphics. In addition, the book introduces atwelve-part grid design that not only opens up new creativepossibilities and relief from the standard three-column page, itworks perfectly with computer coordinates. There's plenty ofsupport for desktop publishers using WordPerfect, Lotus, Adobe, andQuark. You'll get tips for spicing up your pages with tables,charts, graphs, pictographs, and maps, using simple softwareprograms. It's all here. From logotype to printed pages, you won'tfind a more readable, on-the-money guide to designing newsletters.

Author : Bittu Kumar
Publisher : V&S Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9350578050
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basics of Designing - Desktop Publishing written by Bittu Kumar and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From why use DTP, to who uses it, to Software used in DTP, the author Bittu Kumar takes you through all fundamental elements necessary for performing a good job with Desktop Publishing. Aided by step-by-step instructions, actual screen shots, illustrations and specific attributes in using MS Word, Microsoft Paint and MS Publisher this book details how to be a successful Desktop Publisher. More importantly, you become fully aware of why you must consider significantly important five questions when applying design principles in desktop publishing projects: 1. What is the DTP project designed to do? 2. What is the project designed to communicate? 3. What format will best communicate the project's message? 4. What design constraints does the project budget impose? 5. What design techniques will help the viewer understand the project's message? It also briefly informs you how to put these five graphic design tools – Space, Fonts, Color, Illustration & Photography and Consistency - to good use when designing and executing a desktop publishing work.