wild@oscar (Will Doherty) (06/13/88)
Would anyone care to recommend the definitive references to learning about book binding, design, layout, fonts, etc. Thanks, Will Doherty ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help
news@sun.uucp (news) (06/14/88)
One bizarre place to look is Don Lancaster's Ask the Guru column in Computer Shopper magazine. He has spent several columns talking about different low cost binding systems. I believe he sells reprints of the columns. He may not be definitive, but he is definitely opinionated! sun!athsys!gardner ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help
jchester@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Henry S. Horn) (06/20/88)
A good place to start might be "Graphic Design for the Electronic Age" by Jan V. White. It was just published, and in my mind at least, strikes a nice balance between the out of date books that show you photos of typesetters with amazing 32 character displays and "gee whiz" desktop publishing books written by people with a shaky grasp on design fundamentals. It, of course, is not perfect. At one point it's stated firmly that the ability to print on a laser printer in the four possible orientations (parallel to the edge of the page) requires four sets of font pixel files. So much for PostScript and other high level PDLs. Anyway, except for printers that do both sides of the page in one pass, worrying about four orientations is meaningless. :-) --Jon Radel jonradel@icecream.princeton.edu ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help