Product Description

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 an exceptionally broad range of issues associated with print and online publishing, including typography, page layout, design, digital imaging, PostScript/PDF, and much more. Crystal-clear and packed with hundreds of illustrations, The Handbook of Digital Publishing, Volume I covers today's most critical digital publishing issues with unprecedented breadth and depth. Michael Kleper starts by introducing key typographic concepts, rules of thumb, formats, and issues for desktop typography users; then introduces effective design, layout, and page creation techniques for both the printed page and the screen. You'll find detailed coverage of desktop publishing, composition, indexing, and database publishing; as well as a complete guide to digital imaging, creation, capture, and use. Finally, Kleper introduces both PostScript and PDF, presenting expert techniques for creating effective electronic files for both prepress and Web delivery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3283917 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

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.

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.