The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume I: 1 - Hardcover

Kleper, Michael L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130175455 ISBN 13: 9780130175458

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

This is the first volume of the DEFINITIVE guide tothe rapidly changing and growing area of digital publishing, including print, protable digital documents, CD-ROM, multimedia, Web publishing, and some technologies yet to be released. Michael Kleper is the world's foremost authority on this subject, and this is the world's foremost book on it as well.

About this title

About the Author

MICHAEL KLEPER is full professor and member of the Senior Faculty in the Digital Imaging and Publishing Technology Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has 30 years of college teaching and research experience in print, desktop, and electronic publishing, electronic prepress, typography, and page creation. His seven books include The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing and Typesetting, Second Edition. He edits The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing (www.printerport.com/kdp) which originated in print form in 1979.

From the Back Cover

• 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130175455
• ISBN 13: 9780130175458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640