From secretaries to corporate in-house art departments, learn from others doing desktop publishing on-the-job. If you're not self-employed but you do get all or part of your income from some aspect of desktop publishing, see how what you do stacks up against your peers.
Profiles Added April 26, 2002
Dimitri - Learn CMYK, TIFF, PDF
Paul - Success is a simple equation
Suhail - Color knowledge important
Tiwana - Got to love what you do
KT - Keep hardware updated
David - Doing catalogs with QuarkXPress
Lynn - Get formal graphic design education
Sherry - You've got to create pieces that will actually print
Mark - Recommends cross platform training
Veeranathan - Work to learn & Learn to work.
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Michelle - Does it all with Adobe programsLisa - Says ergonomics are the key to survival in her high-production, short deadline environment
Lisa - Uses Microsoft Office for documentation from manuals to PowerPoint presentations
Lorraine - Does 15 color newsletters with PageMaker and Photoshop
cpdll - PageMaker, Photoshop, CorelDRAW user
Susan - Pre-press production manager for a small newspaper
Herb - Uses PageMaker and Photoshop in the Publishing field
Robin - Self-taught desktop publisher does nonprofit newsletters and more in PageMaker
Annette - Publisher and QuarkXPress get the word out to thousands in bi-monthly newspaper
Starr - Problem-solving desktop publishing in the medical field
Alain - Working primarily with hi-resolution scans, get some Photoshop tips here
Simon - Prepress troubleshooter uses PageMaker, Photoshop, and CorelDRAW
Veronica - Publisher and Printmaster are tools of choice for newsletters, brochures, more
Joe - Uses FrameMaker for government technical manuals
Karen - PageMaker user gets telephone directory to do 'on the side'
Michael - Shares 3 things you need to know
Pablo - Recommends Macintosh and mentors
Charlotte - Using InDesign & Publisher for ads, brochures, and more
John - Advocates getting as much training as possible
Jeff - Ventura users reminds us best tool is not always most popular
Simon - Keeps busy in Hong Kong doing Legal/HR/Bank publishing
Don - Mac rules in this film house
Kaydee - Says a good graphic design education is key.
Stephanie - In-house newsletter, ads, packaging on the Mac
Horace - FrameMaker for equipment manuals
Sherry - She's the "let's make it look good" person for contractor's office
Lenore - Both Mac and Windows training recommended
Darth - Recommends basic conventional prepress knowledge
Carl - Does it all in CorelDRAW
Krys - Using Ventura in insurance field
Jeannie - Church materials with a variety of programs
Julie - Suggests design internship
Mary - Publishing a newsletter with Publisher
Maryann - Word and QuarkXPress on the Mac does the job
Chetel - Newsletters, ads in construction industry
Su - In-house service bureau does it all
Phoogan - Reminds us "you can't know everything!"
Kim - A good listserv, experts/mentors are your friends
Roger - Does marketing materials for real estate agents
Tracy - Markets newspapers with Publisher and Photoshop
Jeanne - Keep up with new technology
Jo - PC in the Printing field doing it all
lotsofscans2 - There's bad and good in newspaper publishing
R-no - Internet graphics are specialty; it differs from print graphics work
Stuart - Technical writer does wide range of documentation projects
isitrans - Foreign language graphics is challenging but interesting too
Beverly - Says to talk to your printer and use a Mac!
Sylka - Doing all the graphics, DTP, and "enhanced" word processing
Marcella - Says perfection counts, as does consistancy
Raine - Says being creative is great but knowledge is even better
Erik - Doing pubs from 1 page to 1000 in PageMaker
dwd - Quark on a Mac in Europe
Donario - Working on Creo-Scitex platform doing it all start to finish
Kathi - New at DTP doing in-house newsletter
Mark - Produces marketing and sales material on a Mac
Chris - Recommends you learn print workflow inside and out
Digvijay - Learn from your own work
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