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"Never mind all the Web and CD-ROM publishers out there, print publishing is still a thriving industry. And it's no easier than before to learn the ins and outs of digital prepress. This is the book to read if you're fairly new to print publishing and are involved in preparing electronic documents for print. Each chapter starts with a common problem, such as dealing with a bad scan, and goes on to explain how to avoid each worst-case scenario. The authors start off with advice on setting up a production environment with the right hardware and software, and move on to managing fonts and files, using vector and raster based images, scanning, working with color, laying out pages, trapping, and preparing files for output. " Computer Graphics Editor's Recommended Book, 04/01/97: Here is your complete reference to the world of digital prepress and production for the creative professional. The text focuses on saving time, money, and reputation by doing things right the first time. Prepress and production issues can be costly and frustrating for operators and managers. This book provides them with a complete reference and an issues-oriented, troubleshooting, problem-solving approach that concentrates on getting the job done and keeping an eye on the bottom line. - Focuses on saving time and money by doing things right the first time
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Everyone appreciates professional-looking documents, whether they're newsletters and brochures or business proposals and presentations. Now, with Desktop Publishing & Design For Dummies, you can discover how to create effective, desktop-published documents yourself -- saving both the time and expense of working with designers, typesetters, and service bureaus. Leading desktop publishing guru and author Roger C. Parker shows you how to :
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Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Publish : Books, Newsletters, Greeting Cards, Zines, and software This authoritative how-to explains everything the beginner needs to know to pursue a successful career in the home-based publishing business. Lucrative home-based publishing ventures include industry newsletters, greeting cards, and other specialties, for which experts share their secrets in in-depth interviews. Technology and business essentials are also clearly covered. Lisa Shaw, a home-based publisher, reveals to her readers everything they need to know to successfully start and run a home-based publishing business. Everything from small travel books and industry newsletters to magazines and greeting cards can be published from home, and Lisa Shaw interviews successful publishers who share their expert advice. |
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One-Of-A-Kind Projects, Expert Tips, and Hard-To-Find Sources Essential for the desktop publisher, here are hundreds of design ideas and technical specifications for projects ranging from business cards to T-shirts. The novice to the experienced desktop publisher can utilize these ideas using a standard word processing program. Includes updated information, index and resource list. Using your own DTP or word processing software and laser printer, you can easily create all 104 design projects inside The Desktop Publisher's Idea Book, 2nd Edition. The author shows you step-by-layout-step how to create professional, eye-catching designs that boldly and creatively state your message. Each project comes complete with page dimensions, typeface names and sizes, and sources for clip art and photos. You'll find valuable information for working with illustrators, photographers, and printers. There's also a resource list for locating supplies and special materials. |
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From concept to color proofing, this concise, user-friendly handbook covers every step of the prepress process, including current and future terminologies. Plenty of savvy tips on purchasing issues and dealing with service bureaus help keep operations within budget, and coverage of multimedia, on-line publishing, and on-demand printing offer definite advantages. Table of Contents |
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Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design--proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast--in an illustrated volume that features before and after examples of page design. Robin Williams wrote this one "for all the people who now need to
design pages, but who have no background or formal training in design."
Follow the basic principles clearly explained in this book and your work
is guaranteed to look more professional, organized, unified, and interesting.
You'll never again look at a page in the same way. Full of practical design
exercises and quizzes. Runner-up for Best Introductory Systems How-to Book
in the 10th Annual Computer Press Awards. "Excellent design primer - As a programmer, I don't have time for a full course in visual design, but this small book quickly improved my ability to design attractive and informative interfaces for my software. I think everyone should understand the basics of good design... this world would be a lot easier to navigate!" optik@swbell.net , 06/17/97, |
Computer Tips: For Artists, Designers, and Desktop Publishers |
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. A great resource for artists,designers,and desktop publishers. This is the newest reference in the acclaimed TIPS series. Computer Tips is a must-have collection of techniques, short-cuts, workarounds, and good advice for anyone who prepares artwork or publications electronically, whether on a Mac or PC platform. Learn how to: - choose, buy and maintain equipment and software - wok efficiently with electronic files - set up a work area - create a healthy work environment - bridge traditional and electronic page layout and art techniques - scan, process and manipulate images - ensure accurate color reproduction - use fonts and typography most effectively - create special graphic effects - handle prepress and printing issues - set freelance guidelines - build an effective web page. Computer Tips offers expert tips on developing these skills and many more, with emphasis on how to adapt traditinoal techniques and materials to digital use and use low-tech methods for high-tech results. Also included are a glossary of essential terms, a list of resources, and a treasury of special character keystrokes and measurement conversions. |
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