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If you've ever worked in a fast-paced editorial environment, you know just how frustrating it can be to wait as each member of the team–from writer, to editor, to artist–makes changes to his or her piece of the layout puzzle. With InCopy, you don't have to! The Adobe InCopy Book shows editorial teams how to take control of the copy-fitting process as editors, designers, and writers work simultaneously on the same InDesign CS document. The guide begins with the basics, explaining what InCopy is and how it integrates with InDesign before moving on to describe the interface. The second section provides a feature-by-feature breakdown of how the program works, using simple step-by-step instructions and plenty of screen shots to ease the way. The remainder of the book is devoted to real-world workflows: one in which design trumps copy (that is, the design is created first), one in which copy trumps design (copy is created first), and one in which copy and design are of equal importance. more...

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Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4 gives you the ability to fully understand QuarkXPress, while developing a knowledge of the rules of design and how computers can exploit them. Students with non visual backgrounds can rapidly improve, producing worthy examples of pages that integrate text and image. Knowledge gives you choices. The authors approach the subject of teaching QuarkXPress from all the necessary directions. Learning software enables you to layout a page but not how to design one. So this does not take the reader through a series of steps reproducing designed pages - that teaches you nothing. Instead, the authors provide an objecive understanding of what makes your designs work. more...

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How did design help choose a president?. Why are people buying houses they cannot afford?. Why do U.S. car makers now struggle to compete? Why do we really have an environmental crisis?. Design matters. Like never before. Disarming the weapons of mass deception. Designers create so much of what we see, what we use, and what we experience. In this time of unprecedented environmental, social, and economic crises, designers can choose what their young profession will be about: inventing deceptions that encourage more consumption—or helping repair the world. Do Good Design is a call to action:. It alerts designers to the role they play in persuading global audiences to fulfill invented needs. The book outlines a more sustainable approach to both the practice and the consumption of design. All professionals will be inspired by the message of how one industry can feel better about itself by holding onto its principles. In this provocative and dramatically-illustrated book, David Berman offers a powerful and hopeful message for all designers. Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project. Do Good Design is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA. The author will make a donation of 10% of his proceeds to a not for-profit organization whose mission is in alignment with the goals of this book. more...

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Create and distribute PDF (Portable Document Format) files using Adobe Acrobat 7.0. This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to generate Adobe PDF files that retain the look and feel of the original documents, share PDFs, initiate and participate in PDF document reviews, and prepare PDFs for print or the Web. You’ll also learn to develop interactive forms, secure your documents, and create PDFs from Microsoft Office and other authoring applications. With coverage of Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional editions, this hands-on resource will help you take full advantage of the premier paperless publishing and collaboration solution.:.; Read and search PDF documents.; Convert virtually any document to PDF.; Capture documents from a scanner, digital camera, or Web page.; Create bookmarks, links, navigation menus, and use thumbnails.; Add digital signatures and document security.; Optimize documents for print, the Web, or other purposes.; Review, edit, and annotate PDFs in multi-author environments.; Create a searchable index.; Create PDF forms using Adobe Designer.; Add multimedia elements to PDFs. About the author: Doug Sahlin is a best-selling author, Web site designer, and Acrobat trainer. He teaches corporations and government organizations how to save time and money by converting paper documents to PDF. Sahlin’s other books include How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0, How to Do Everything with Adobe Encore DVD , and Digital Photography QuickSteps . more...

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