Best Practices for Desktop Publishing

di Sandee Cohen (Autore)

Peachpit Press, 2012

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

• Autore: Sandee Cohen
• Anno edizione: 2012
• Editore: Peachpit Press
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9780132965668