| 1997 Feature Articles from your Guide | |
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Obsolete material has been removed from this list. The remaining articles are evergreen content, reguarly updated and applicable to desktop publishing years after their initial publication.
Holiday Font Borders - 12/11/97
Decorative borders from dingbat and symbol fonts.
Leading - 12/04/97
Setting line spacing in your software.
Imposition and Printer's Spreads - 11/26/97
Illustrations, tips, and a
handy booklet page numbering chart.
Print Ad Design - 11/20/97
Two ad makeovers.
Single Typeface Document - 11/19/97
Layouts that use only one
typeface or a single type family.
Body Copy Type Choices - 11/13/97
Characteristics of typefaces that are key to readability.
Letterform Elements - 11/06/97
Serifs, bowls, stress, and other characteristics that give alphabets consistency.
Book Review & Sample Newsletter - 10/23/97
Quick and Easy
Newsletters by Elaine Floyd.
Cut and Paste - 10/16/97
Expand the capabilities, add variety with traditional pasteup methods.
Book Review & Bookmark Project - 10/09/97
The Desktop Publisher's Idea Book by Chuck Green.
Personalized Letters - 10/02/97
Santa Letters and more for fun,
profit, or fund raising.
Iron-on Transfers - 09/25/97
Create wearable art with your inkjet
printer.
Color Talk II - 09/18/97
Analyzing our perception of color and specifying color for print and the Web.
Color Talk - 09/11/97
The sometimes confusing terminology for describing color on the Web and in print.
Free Software - 09/04/97
Obtain commercial & registered shareware absolutely free (and legal).
Desktop Publishing in the K-12 Classroom - 08/28/97
6 Lesson Plans.
Logos from the Desktop - 08/07/97
Build logos and graphics with simple
shapes and lines.
Know Your Software - 07/31/97
Why and how to learn more about your DTP tools.
Using Templates - 07/24/97
Save time, get creative with templates.
Out of this World Clip Art and Web Graphics - 07/17/97
My fun tribute to Mars, Mir, and the Roswell Incident.
Drop Shadows - 07/10/97
Preserve the illusion of depth with tips for more realistic shadows.
You've Been Framed - 06/26/97
Effective use of boxes & borders in your desktop documents and Web pages.
Grids: Flexible Options - 06/12/97
Selecting the right grid; avoid that "boxed in" look.
Grids: Consistency and Unity - 06/05/97
Use grids to unify design elements.
Grids: Order out of Chaos - 05/29/97
Design grids and their components.
Widows and Orphans - 05/22/97
Finetune your line endings.
Initial Caps - 05/15/97
Avoid that "software drop cap macro" look.
Say CHEESE - 05/01/97
3 ways to use mug shots more creatively including sizing, adding graphic embellishments.
Modifying clipart - 04/24/97
3 techniques to mulitiply the effectiveness of your clipart.
Defining Desktop Publishing - 04/17/97
Explore the varied definitions of Desktop Publishing.
Measurement systems - 04/10/97
Deciphering metrics, picas, points, and "standard paper sizes"
DTP tools - 03/24/97
Choosing the "best" software.
Word Processing vs. Desktop Publishing - 03/03/97
Today's software blurs the line.
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