Email Desktop Publishing Course by Jonathan Lang | LESSON 1 |

Introduction
This book is an introductory course on designing for desktop publishing. The course was originally a series of messages to all on the City2City network in the DTP conference of which I am the conference host. The purpose of this course was to give good solid basics for those new to DTP in order to improve their quality of output.

Contents

LESSON 1
Introduction

LESSON 2
Planning Ahead
Establish Standards
Column Layouts
Two Column Layout
Three Column Layout
Four Column Layout
Horizontal Grids

LESSON 3
Type
Putting Fonts to Work
Digitized Type
Type and other forms of measurement
Interline Space
The Point System
Type Families
What is PostScript?
What is TrueType?
TrueType (.TTF) versus PostScipt (.PFB) Fonts
Opentype

LESSON 4
Symmetry and Asymmetry

 

    

LESSON 5
Signposts - Headings and Subheads and Devices
Main Headings and Titles
Subheadings

LESSON 6
Rules, Boxes, and Other Graphical Devices
Rules
Boxes
Tint Panels
Bullets and Arrows

LESSON 7
Illustrations
Drawn Illustrations
Photographic Illustration or Halftones
Understanding Graphics
Bitmap Graphics
Vector Graphics

LESSON 8
Paper
Characteristics of Paper
Varieties of Paper

Appendix A: Glossary of Terms

Appendix B: Graphics Formats

Editor's Note
This material appeared on the Destop Publishing Forum of America Online in the public domain. We have attempted to contact Mr. Lang to discuss it but he does not exist on the Web. A great deal of additional material was added to Mr. Lang's course while preparing this PostScript edition. I hope it is all useful and timely, but the industry changes so fast it is really difficult to keep up with what is going on. Anyway, it's been fun and I hope this will be useful. The Editor.

 
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