Windows Font Basics for New Font Users Lesson 2 – Digital Font Formats

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	Digital Font Formats
	TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts come in both Macintosh and Windows formats. You can’t use TrueType or Type 1 fonts for the Mac on a PC running Windows. The newer OpenType font format is cross-platform. You can use the same OpenType fonts on both Macintosh and Windows PC computers.

Rules for DTP – Lesson 2: Space After Paragrgaphs

Return to Sender?
In our first lesson we banished one of the most common carryovers from typewriting that plague desktop-published documents. Today, we’ll tackle another spacing issue rooted in typewriter usage. This is a feature of page layout software that has also migrated, somewhat, to high-end word processing software.

Don’t Use Double Hard Returns After a Paragraph
With today’s word processors and page layout applications it is possible to precisely control the amount of space between paragraphs. There is no longer a need for the old typewriter style of putting double hard returns to separate paragraphs (in computer terms that would be the equivalent of using the enter key to add space between lines). Learn how and why to do it with paragraph formatting.

Daily Dose of DTP 2. Paging All Designers

It’s a verb. It’s a noun. It’s what we do and what is created when doing desktop publishing. Today we’re exploring the multiple meanings of page layout — the heart of desktop publishing.

Some business people consider a business plan an essential component of doing business. It gives them direction and focus. In desktop publishing we need a plan as well. Our page layout is that plan. It shows us where things go and how it all fits together. As with business plans, our page layout may change over time. We’ll move things around, add new pieces, take parts away depending on what we need to accomplish.

Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls)

Today’s Definition
Page Layout
It also goes by names like page composition and document design. It’s at the heart of desktop publishing but it was around long before desktop publishing existed.

Daily Dose of DTP 1. What is Desktop Publishing?

Welcome to your Daily Dose of DTP. As you may have already known or realized, DTP is an acronym for desktop publishing — not a vaccination for diptheria, pertussis, tetanus (that’s DPT). Defining desktop publishing is the first step in learning desktop publishing.

Today’s daily dose is a triple-treat because desktop publishing, graphic design, and Web publishing are all so closely related that some people think they are all the same thing. But, as you’re about to discover, that isn’t exactly true.

Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls)

Today’s Definitions
Desktop Publishing
It’s a process… and it’s a type of software. It’s also what we’re going to be exploring for the next several weeks so make this your first stop today.

Rules of DTP Lesson 1: Space After Punctuation

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One Space or Two?
To kick off the class, what follows is a controversial topic. What? You didn’t think a subject like desktop publishing could have controversy? Try asking whether you have to have a Mac to do desktop publishing, or which software is best. Sometimes the discussions get very heated.

Today’s rule of desktop publishing is not about the hardware or the software. It doesn’t require buying a new computer or learning a new software program; however, for some of you it may require unlearning something you’ve done for years and years, perhaps without even thinking about it.

Use One Space Between Sentences, Not Two
Typewriter-trained or not, you may have always been told that it was proper to put two spaces after a period or other punctuation. Find out where that practice originated and why you may need to change your ways. Already doing it the right way? Get a little ammunition to help convince others. But don’t forget the bottomline – this rule applies to desktop publishing, not necessarily everything or everyone else.

Windows Font Basics for New Font Users Lesson 1 – Resident and Soft Fonts

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	Resident and Soft Fonts
	The first step in understanding and using digital fonts is learning just a touch about font formats.There are two broad categories of digital fonts – resident and soft fonts.