With today's electronic publishing tools, it's all too easy for graphics arts professionals to waste thousands of dollars and miss crucial print deadlines due to minuscule errors that aren't caught until too late. In this book, top graphic design consultant Dr. Taz Tally addresses every risk area in electronic publishing -- with specific techniques and solutions that will keep this from happening to you! Start with the fundamentals: a practical explanation of how electronic publishing works -- and why it often doesn't work. Understand the entire digital prepress landscape, from the key characteristics of bitmapped and object- oriented images, to essential techniques for preparing vector and contone EPS files, to how electronic files are constructed for output. Discover 100 essential tips every digital publisher should know -- and learn in-depth techniques for avoiding Postscript RIPing errors. Entertaining and accessible, this is required reading for anyone who must understand digital imaging in the Postscript age.
- ISBN10 013084876X
- ISBN13 9780130848765
- Publish Date 21 July 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Format Paperback
- Pages 340
- Language English