In Print: Text and Type in the Age of Desk Top Publishing

by Alex Brown

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This handbook offers detailed coverage of both traditional and desktop publishing systems, and provides readers with instructions on choosing a typeface and size. The author stresses the factors that promote legibility and readability. After detailing the decisions that must be made in specifying type for traditional typesetting systems, the book explores how text illustrations are processed with desktop publishing equipment. Also included is information on copy editing, copy fitting, and proofreading. Throughout the book, the teaching is visually oriented, with telling examples of what works and what does not. For everyone involved with printed communication, this is an invaluable reference.
  • ISBN10 0823025446
  • ISBN13 9780823025442
  • Publish Date 1 October 1989
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 1 June 2000
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
  • Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English