Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors - Couverture souple

Jones, Gerald Everett

 
9781583487686: Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors
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ISBN 10 : 1583487689 ISBN 13 : 9781583487686
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors is a practical reference for creating good-looking text in a variety of business applications, using popular Windows software tools. Unlike other font books, this unique guide focuses on specific, day-to-day business tasks. You'll concentrate on executing the taskfrom generating memos to creating video titlesand learn to produce attractive text in the process. Learn the fundamentals of good typesetting. Whether it's done by hand or by computer, effective typesetting relies on the same basic principles. Key topics include font terminology, guidelines for font selection, kerning and leading, estimating publication lengths, allowing for signatures and folios, and more. Find out how to solve common problems. You'll learn to diagnose printer and display problems, how to select and use font utilities, how to recognize defective fonts, and how to organize fonts into application groups to make access easier and improve computer performance. Explore the sophisticated possibilities of computer-generated type. You'll learn how to create on-screen presentations, video titles, color slides and transparencies, and use a variety of special effects.You'll also find plenty of expert design information advice, tips, notes, and illustrations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors is a practical reference for creating good-looking text in a variety of business applications, using popular Windows software tools. Unlike other font books, this unique guide focuses on specific, day-to-day business tasks. You'll concentrate on executing the taskfrom generating memos to creating video titlesand learn to produce attractive text in the process. Learn the fundamentals of good typesetting. Whether it's done by hand or by computer, effective typesetting relies on the same basic principles. Key topics include font terminology, guidelines for font selection, kerning and leading, estimating publication lengths, allowing for signatures and folios, and more. Find out how to solve common problems. You'll learn to diagnose printer and display problems, how to select and use font utilities, how to recognize defective fonts, and how to organize fonts into application groups to make access easier and improve computer performance. Explore the sophisticated possibilities of computer-generated type. You'll learn how to create on-screen presentations, video titles, color slides and transparencies, and use a variety of special effects.You'll also find plenty of expert design information advice, tips, notes, and illustrations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gerald E. Jones is a freelance writer who works in book publishing, motion pictures, and video production. He is the author of Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors, also republished by toExcel, and Harvard Graphics: The Art of Presentation and Freelance Graphics, The Art of Presentation (Prima Publishing).

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1583487689
ISBN 13 
9781583487686
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
412
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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