Mastering Desktop Publishing
Published on 12. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 240 pages
978-0-333-71366-2 (ISBN)
Description
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:
· communications
· media
· business
· marketing
· design
· desktop publishing
Mastering Desktop Publishing offers the reader techniques, skills and strategies to achieve effective results in publishing.
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:
· communications
· media
· business
· marketing
· design
· desktop publishing
Mastering Desktop Publishing offers the reader techniques, skills and strategies to achieve effective results in publishing.
More details
Series
Edition
1999
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-71366-2 (9780333713662)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
SIMON MITCHELL has worked in many areas of teaching, adult education and training. He currently teaches desktop publishing to small business, is Lecturer in Communication at St. Austell College, Cornwall and is an A-level Examiner.
Content
Preface.- Introduction to Publishing.- Introduction to Design.- Market.- Media.- Money.- Message.- Magic of Design.- Graphics.- Secrets of Design.- Tricks of Design.- Making the Design.- Design Examples.- Hardware.- Software.- Glossary of Design Terminology.- Bibliography.