Designer's Guide to Mac OS X Tiger

Jeff Gamet

ISBN 10: 032141246X / ISBN 13: 9780321412461

Published by Peachpit Press, 2006

About this Item

Unbenutzte Restauflage Unbenutzt. Schnelle Lieferung, Kartonverpackung. Abzugsfähige Rechnung. Bei Mehrfachbestellung werden die Versandkosten anteilig erstattet. -It's been a long time coming, but now that all of the most important desktop publishing and design programs are at last Mac OS X native, designers and publishers are finally making the move to Mac OS X as well. Lucky for them, this book will be there to greet them! Written by design and prepress pro Jeff Gamet, this book focuses on the Mac OS X Tiger features that designers want and need to know to work efficiently and effectively with the operating system. Instead of pages and pages devoted to iChat, e-mail, and browsing the Net, readers will find chapters devoted to fonts, printing, creating and working with PDFs, managing color, networking, shifting between Classic and Mac OS X, Mac OS X's built-in design and productivity tools, system maintenance, security, and more. Throughout, Jeff explains not only how to do things in Mac OS X Tiger but why the OS works the way it does so that designers can improve their workflows by avoiding common problems. 280 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # INF1000000995

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designer's Guide to Mac OS X Tiger
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 032141246X
• ISBN 13: 9780321412461
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Neu

About this title

Synopsis

You held off on moving to Mac OS X until your bread-and-butter applications made the jump, and now you're thinking of moving up to Tiger. This book is especially geared toward designers who've become comfortable working under Mac OS X and are ready now to make the Tiger transition. Designer and prepress pro Jeff Gamet focuses on the Mac OS X Tiger features that matter most to illustrators, designers, and other graphic professionals. He explains not only how things work in Mac OS X Tiger, but how Tiger enables users to work efficiently and effectively. In chapters devoted to fonts, printing, PDF, color management, networking, the Mac's built-in design tools, and much more, readers will learn how to:
 
* Solve the nitty-gritty issues designers confront daily
* Improve production workflow and avoid common problems
* Optimize, maintain, and secure your network, whether you work in a complex office environment or a small graphics studio

About the Author

Jeff Gamet is a Macintosh consultant specializing in prepress and electronic workflow issues. In addition to teaching classes and presenting seminars on Mac OS X-related topics, he is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly.