num_pages: 458
description: Based on the author's many years of extensive hands-on experience with electronic publishing and digital imaging, this clear, concise, easy-to-read guide to the fundamentals provides a welcome, accessible alternative to the often too detailed, complex, and technical manuals on the subject. Focused on situations and problems encountered everyday in the real work-world, it provides not only the necessary background information, but a myriad of tips and tricks for preventing, or at least mitigating, as many problems as possible when it comes to creating, viewing, and printing documents with desktop publishing equipment and software. The Big Picture --Pressing Problems. Terms of Endearment. Peaceful Coexistence. Electronic Publishing Systems. Software. File Fundamentals --Bits &amp; Bytes. Basic Computer Skills and Habits. Resolving Resolution. Grappling with Graphics. RIPing Up Your Files. A Tales of True Typesetting. Project Construction --Taming Your Scanner. Document Construction. Color Me Right. Web Graphics. Application Specific Tips. Finishing the Project --Screening Your Images. Feeling Trapped? The Proof Is in the Separation. Managing the Mess. Taz's Tips. Also includes information on Mac Fonts; Windows Font Files; Graphic File Formats; EFIS Example; File Prep Utilities; Information Resources. For anyone in graphic arts, marketing, communications, graphic design.
language: English
title: Electronic Publishing: Avoiding the Output Blues
titlecomplete: Electronic Publishing: Avoiding the Output Blues
publisher: Pearson College Div