The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume I

• The definitive guide to digital publishing
• Typography, page design, creation, and DTP workflows
• Practical and easy to understand, with hundreds of illustrations
• Digital imaging, PostScript, PDF, and much more
• By one of the world's foremost authorities on digital publishing

First in a 2-volume set

Volume II: Color management, digital workflow, multimedia/new media, and Web publishing

The definitive digital publishing resource, by the world's foremost authority!

The digital publishing industry finally has a single, up-to-date source for authoritative information on every aspect of digital publishing: techniques, technologies, media, workflow, and beyond! In this, the first of a two-volume set, the world's leading authority on digital publishing offers powerful insight into everything from typography to page layout and design, digital imaging to database publishing. Crystal-clear and packed with hundreds of illustrations, Michael Kleper's The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume I covers all this, and more:

• Typographic methods and procedures: fundamental concepts, rules of thumb, formats, and key desktop typography issues
• Effective design and layout: for the page, and for the screen
• Digital image creation, capture, processing and use: making the most of digital cameras, scanners, and other image sources
• Page creation: desktop publishing, word processing, composition, indexing, and more
• PostScript and PDF: the art and science of creating electronic files

From DTP workflow to database publishing, The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume I covers today's most critical digital publishing issues with unprecedented breadth and depth. Whatever your role in publishing, whatever media and tools you use, it's the most valuable reference and "how-to" tutorial you can own. Finally, this valuable resource offers thorough details on all sources.

Also look for The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume II, covering color management, digital workflow, multimedia/new media, and Web publishing.

Contents

Typographic methods and procedures

• Type and typography
• Typographic procedures, rules, and niceties
• Type on the desktop

• Beginning with the page
• Page design-destination: paper or screen

• Digital photography
• Scanning technology
• Prefabricated files for digital media production

• Adobe postscript
• Adobe PDF: Portable Document Format
• High-resolution fonts for postscript

• Desktop publishing
• The advent of word processing
• Typographic composition
• Desktop publishing skills and careers
• The page-creation production workflow
• Indexing and index generation
• Database publishing
• Specialized forms of publication
• Sight, navigation, movement, and feedback

• Appendix A: Vendor listing
• Appendix B: Trade associations, professional organizations, and Industry groups
• Bibliography
• Index