Desktop publishing for beginners

How to create brochures, books and documents. Get an introduction to word processing, fonts, file formats and WYSIWYG. How colour is handled by commercial printers. How to create portable documents which can be read on different computers and to send documents to commercial printers. A chapter covers Soup to Nuts programs. Review the heavyweights in software publishing and layout. Learn about specialty programs for research papers and foreign language texts. Find out about voice dictation software and how Optical Character Recognition can help scan and import written text. Finally, there is a chapter on managing your documents.