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Overview
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- Apply basic design principles by using popular desktop publishing and page layout programs such as QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker
- Choose the right computer hardware and software to suit your budget as well as your needs
- Scan photographs and place them effectively on your pages
- Select the best typefaces for headlines, subheads, body copy, and captions
- Use color tastefully
- Prepare bug-free files for service bureaus and printers
- Talk the talk: A glossary of over 200 design terms helps you communicate with others to ensure that your job is done on time and within budget
Plus, Desktop Publishing & Design For Dummies features a special insert that takes you step by step through the process of creating successful newsletters.
Desktop Publishing and Design for Dummies is written for users of virtually all available word processing and page layout software programs. Roger C. Parker provides explanations, examples, and advice to readers who want to use their word processing and desktop publishing programs to create professional looking documents.
Book Details
Published
January 20, 1995
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781568842349