Cover of Looking Good in Print

Looking Good in Print

Looking Good in Print, Sixth Edition, is the bestselling designer's guide for creating print documents using the newest desktop publishing technologies. It provides expert advice and invaluable techniques for the desktop publisher. This updated edition features special sections on working with large documents, distribution documents, and developing documents that can easily be updated and modified as well as techniques for using fonts and a variety of type styles, placement of photos and illustrations to maximize impact, organization and working with large files, how to avoid design pitfalls, and creating printable documents and forms for use on the Web. The new edition features step by step instructions and examples for creating everything from newsletters, product sheets, catalogs, advertisements and forms to newspapers, tabloids and documents used on the Web.

Subject
business
Themes
technology
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Looking Good in Print? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Looking Good in Print. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Starting and Running a Successful Design Business Shares design, graphic design, nonfiction
  2. Design Entrepreneur (Slipcased): Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell Shares design, graphic design, business
  3. Before and After: How to Design Cool Stuff Shares design, graphic design, nonfiction
  4. How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul Shares design, graphic design, nonfiction

“If you want more of the same (business about technology), start with these.”

  1. Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design
  2. After the Software Wars
  3. eBay for Dummies
  4. 3D Printing for Dummies

“If it was the design that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Essential Principles Of Graphic Design
  2. Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff They Don't Teach You in Design School, But Should
  3. Design Thinking
  4. A Designer's Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. CSS and Documents
  2. Windows 7 For Dummies
  3. HTML 4 for Dummies
  4. Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability