glarsen@note.nsf.gov (Glenn Larsen) (09/08/88)
Desktop publishing has as a goal, the mission to impress. Face it, if
you only needed to communicate, a simple word processor would do. It's
the need to impress and convey a professional appearance that gives
desktop publishing its appeal. In this light, presentation graphics
also serves this end. I've seen a number of viewgraphs and slides that
are generated using desktop publishers.
I guess what I'm trying to suggest is that the desktop forum also
consider presentation graphic discussions and include the tools used
for them. For example, Harvard Graphics is often used to generate
pictorials that are used within desktop publishers. What's more is
also creates signs, posters, and typeset justified material.
I've a keen interest in presentation graphics and use desktop
publishing software such as Ventura, Harvard Graphics, and Publishers
Paintbrush to this end. Both presentation graphics and desktop
publishing are very concerned with styles and appearence of presented
material.
Should this topic be of interest I've several things I can contribute
since I'm currently under contract by a major publisher to write a book
on using Harvard Graphics in presentations.
[What does the readership think? I tend to agree that presentation and
DTP are starting to share technique and technology more and more -- chuq]
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