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Ad Design Tutorials
Provides tips and examples for designing and writing effective print advertising and marketing materials. Get ad design advice, layout ideas, tutorials, and templates.

Adobe FrameMaker Tutorials and Training
Everything you need to help you master Adobe FrameMaker software is here, including templates, formal and informal classes, tips, and tutorials.

Adobe FrameMaker Tutorials
Resources for users of Adobe FrameMaker - tips, tutorials, faqs to help you troubleshoot the program and create the best publications with this long document publishing software.

Adobe InDesign Plug-ins
These companies offer software plug-ins and add-ons that expand the capabilities of Adobe InDesign software.

Adobe InDesign Tutorials
Get tips and tutorials for getting the most out of Adobe InDesign software.

Adobe PageMaker Tutorials and Training
Browse collections of tips, tutorials, templates, and technical support for Adobe PageMaker. Find formal and informal training opportunities including disscussion groups, courses, and conferences.

Adobe PageMaker Tutorials
Locate tutorials for working with text and graphics. Learn how to generate PDF and HTML from PageMaker. Resolve prepress issues and get scripting lessons.

Adobe Tutorials - Importing Text
Get your text into InDesign, PageMaker, and other Adobe programs with these tips and tutorials.

Adobe | Everything About Adobe Software
This is your starting point for information, tutorials, training, and templates for Adobe software for desktop publishing including Adobe InDesign and Adobe PageMaker.

Adrian Frutiger 1928-
Profiles and biographies of Adrian Frutiger. One of his best-known designs is Univers.

Akzidenz-Grotesk
Despite the grotesque name, this predecessor of Helvetica and Univers is a crisp, clean sans serif that's a favorite among many designers. Give Akzidenz-Grotesk consideration as a readable font.

Aldus Manutius 1450-1515
The father of italics, the faces of this Renaissance printer challenged those of Jenson.

Alignment - Principles of Design
Alignment brings order to chaos and can make a layout easier to read. See examples of alignment and ways to implement alignment.

All About EPS
Specifications, uses, and tips for the Encapsulated PostScript or EPS graphics file format.

All About GIF and JPG and PNG
Specifications and uses for the GIF and JPG graphics file formats.

All About PICT
Specifications and other information about the Macintosh PICT graphics file format.

All About TIFF
Specifications and tips for using TIFF graphics files.

Annual Report and Proposal Design
Tips for designing annual reports, proposals, and other business reports. Get inspiration and ideas from makeovers.

AppleWorks Software Tutorials
Find software tutorials and support for ClarisWorks and AppleWorks. Browse collections of tips, scripts, users group, and tech support resources.

Audio Cassette and Video Package Design
Get design tips and templates for J-cards, O-cards, U-cards, and packaging for audio cassettes and video packaging.

Avant Garde
Drawn with geometric precision, Avant Garde is a crisp, clean headline and body text font. The condensed weights are quite legible for text work as well.

Avoid Copyright Infringement
Find out when it is and isn't ok to copy from print and Web sources and what rights you have to use certain types of material.

Award Certificates
Get inspiration for designing award certificates or certificates of recognition to reward or recognize loyal customers, employees, students, and others. Find templates for award certificates.

Back to School
Whether you're the teacher or the student, here are the things you need to teach or enhance your learning of desktop publishing. Go back to school in style with the right software, fonts, templates, and skills.

Balance - Principles of Design
Balance, one the principles of design for page layout, is the process of arranging components of a page that distributes the visual weight of the piece to achieve a specific look or feel.

Basic Design and Typography
These desktop publishing basics of design and typography are for novices and non-designers. Pick up some guidelines for page layout, fine-tuning type for professional polish, and easily creating better looking publications. Just starting out, start here.

Baskerville
A classic dating from the 1750s, the many variations of Baskerville and New Baskerville work quite well for both text and display use.

Binding Methods
Resources for determining the best binding method for your documents.

Bitmap and Vector Graphic Formats
Graphics file formats, pros and cons, technical specifications, conversion, and tips for working with graphics in connection with desktop publishing.

Bodoni
A classic text face styled after the work of Giambattista Bodini. Some versions are, perhaps, too heavy or carry too much contrast in thick and thin strokes for body text but work very well as a display face.

Book Design Tutorials
Provides advice and tutorials on book design and designing text books or manuals, technical reports, and similiar long documents. Learn how to get started, page layout considerations, font selection, and other tips.

Booklet Design and Self-Publishing
Get advice on how to design and self-publish a variety of promotional booklets for yourself or customers.

Books on Desktop Publishing
After you've read the manual, read the book. Build your design library with books on business, design, typography, and print production. Learn more about using your software or teach yourself graphic design with some of the titles here.

Brochure Design Tutorials
Learn how to write and design brochures. Discover the most essential elements of a good brochure design and explore brochure design makeovers. Find tips and tricks covering layout, fonts, graphics, paper choices, and folding for brochure design.

Business Card Software
These programs let you create business cards in minutes from templates or from scratch. Especially suited to individuals and small businesses that just want to print a few cards on-demand to their desktop printer. Some business card software includes paper samples and options for commercial printing.

Business Card Tutorials & Templates
Learn how to design effective business cards. Get tips on fitting all that information in such a small space, the etiquette of business cards, using photos, best fonts, layout ideas, and free business card templates.

Business Desktop Publishing Software
These are the desktop publishing solutions used extensively by corporations and other large enterprises producing a high-volume of long and complex documents. Find programs, including traditional desktop publishing options, for multichannel and specialized publishing.

Business Forms Tutorials and Templates
Find tips, templates, and software for creating effective business forms of all types.

Business Plans for Desktop Publishing
Start a desktop publishing business by starting with a business plan. Informal or extremely detailed, use a business plan to develop and grow your desktop publishing business.

Business Structures Desktop Publishing
Should you incorporate or is sole proprietorship suitable? How difficult is it to run your business as a partnership or corporation? Choose the right structure for your desktop publishing business.

Buying Advice for Software
Discover what you need to know before buying desktop publishing software, read reviews, get recommendations from others.

Calendars
Find software, templates, and ideas for creative, decorative calendars. Count down the days in style with your own creative, custom daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly calendars. Design a calendar for your business, for clients, for friends and family.

Camera Ready Artwork
Learn what is acceptable as camera ready artwork and how to prepare it properly. How to work with images including photographs in camera ready artwork.

Candy Wrappers
Find templates, instructions, and supplies for making your own personalized candy bar wrappers with your computer as favors, unique gifts, or for fund-raisers.

Careers in Graphics and Design
Find a desktop publishing job. Explore designer salaries.
Desktop Publishing & Graphic Design Jobs | Web Design Jobs | Profiles of In-House Designers | Why & How to Hire a Desktop Publisher

Careers in Web Design
Find out how to get into Web design, what Web designers earn, and how to showcase your Web design talents.

Caslon
Benjamin Franklin chose Caslon for the first printing of the American Declaration of Independence. Fonts based on the typefaces of William Caslon are good, readable choices for text.

Catalogs | Menus | Product Lists
Locate tips, tutorials, examples, and templates for designing catalogs and other types of product or service listings including menus, price lists.

CD and DVD Packaging Design
Create and print your designs on compact disc. Design inserts, sleeves, booklets, and labels for CDs and DVDs.

Celebrate Fall • Winter Holidays
Write in blood. Put a turkey on the table. Play Santa. Use these fonts, clip art, and project ideas to create your own special holiday magic. Get the right software to do-it-yourself or as a gift for your favorite creative friends.

Century
The best known of this family is probably New Century Schoolbook. All the Century faces are considered highly legible and suitable not only for children's textbooks but for magazines and other publications as well.

Choose a Name for a Design Business
Tips and pointers to help you come up with a distinctive, memorable, or winning business name for your creative business.

Choose Graphics for Desktop Publishing
Learn the art and science and tips and tricks for choosing clip art. Select the right piece of clip art or photograph and the right image format for your publication. Illustrate newsletters, Web pages, brochures, and presentations more effectively.

Choose Graphics Formats
As prolific as GIF and JPG are on the Web, they aren't the right graphics format for many desktop publishing jobs. Discover what graphics formats work and how to get graphics from one program to another or convert among different graphics formats.

Choosing Desktop Publishing Software
Lists, reviews, comparisons, and lively discussions by users to help you select the best software for desktop publishing, word processing, or graphic design.

Choosing Fonts
Access resources to help in choosing fonts for a desktop publishing project. Choose fonts that set the tone for a design, provide the best readability, and convey the right image. Mix and match fonts like a pro with these font selection tutorials.

Classification and Anatomy Type Basics
Explore the basics of typography and using digital type and fonts through articles, tutorials, and definitions. Learn letter parts, how to measure type, typeface classifications, and typestyles.

Claude Garamond 1480–1561
Profiles and typographic contributions of Claude Garamond. Many of the Garamond faces today are not based on his work, but that of a contemporary.

Clip Art Vendors
Collections and services offering commercial clip art including royalty-free illustration. Some vendors specialize in specific categories such as dogs, church, or Americana. Online catalogs and ordering are common. A few vendors offer purchase of individual pictures while most offer CD collections.

Clipping Paths Tutorials
Get rid of the background. Learn how to create and work with a clipping path for use in page layout software. Find tips and in-depth tutorials for working with masks, clipping paths, and alpha channels to create transparency in print graphics.

Collections and Suites for Macintosh
These Macintosh collections combine several major applications into one cost-saving bundle. They are one way to build a desktop publishing tool box with everything you need.

Collections and Suites for Windows
These Windows collections combine several software programs into one money-saving bundle. You can save a few hundred dollars over purchasing separate applications for page layout or design, illustration, and image-editing.

Color Basics and Theory
These resources are for understanding and using color in desktop publishing. Start with the basics of color wheels, subtractive and additive color, and RGB vs. CMYK.

Color Calibration and Profiling
Calibrate, profile (or characterize), and optimize your monitor, printer, digital camera, and scanner so that what you see is what you print. Learn about ICC Profiles and their use in Color Management Systems.

Color Correction and Management Tips
Pick up software tips for working with color in your favorite desktop publishing programs. How to use palettes, manage and correct colors.

Color Management Systems (CMS)
These are the tools you need for calibration and profiling of your scanner, monitor, printer, digital camera, or other display, source, or destination devices. Learn how to get the most accurate color from your system.

Color Printing
Taking color from your the scanner and the screen and putting it onto paper. Various color printing techniques explored.

Color Separations
Learn how color separations fit into desktop publishing. Create color separations and have them print correctly from your software.

Color Symbolism and Choosing Colors
How to select and use color effectively in desktop publishing. Explore a variety of color palettes. Learn about color symbolism - what colors mean - and get help with choosing colors.

Color
From your inkjet or a commercial printing press, learn about choosing and using color on screen and on paper, get calibration techniques for perfect color-matching, and work with the color tools in page layout programs.

Commercial Fonts
For the highest quality fonts, sometimes you have to pay. Build your font collections with classic fonts and the newest offerings of commercial from the top type foundries.

Commercial Printing Services
Find a printer for your next desktop publishing project. Listings for specialty printing services and clearinghouses for finding printing services, getting bids.

Commercial Type Foundries A-Z
Commercial Type Foundries from A to Z. Your source for quality Mac and PC fonts in TrueType and Type 1 formats. Many offer online ordering and downloads, CD and individual font sales.

Comps and Dummies for Desktop Publishing
A dummy and a comp (short for comprehensive artwork) are both mock-ups of your design. They serve varying purposes and come at different stages of the design and publishing process from rough sketches to "almost like finished" dummy layouts.

Computer Craft Projects and Ideas
Find all kinds of computer craft ideas from books and boxes to clocks and gift tags. Some sites offer basic ideas and others have complete instructions and craft templates for all your creative printing needs.

Computer Craft Supplies and Services
Locate computer crafting supplies, accessories, and services. These are the things you need and things that are nice to have to make crafts with your computer.

Computer Systems
Should you get a Mac or a PC? Which is better for desktop publishing? Find comparisons, user opinions, reviews, and analysis to help you decide what type of desktop publishing hardware you need.

Consistency - Principles of Design
Definitions and examples of how to achieve consistency and unity in design and its importance.

Contracts, Forms for Desktop Publishing
Deal with every contingency with a written contract. Work more efficiently with the right forms and checklists for your desktop publishing business.

Contrast - Principles of Design
How to achieve contrast in your design and page layout and why it's important.

Converting Graphics Formats
Tips for converting between formats for desktop publishing. Identify file formats and use Mac and Windows software to convert from bitmap or vector formats.

Copyright Law
Learn about copyrights, licenses, work for hire, and royalty-free use, and how copyright law affects desktop publishers.

Copyright • Licensing • Usage Issues
In addition to help in understanding copyright law, find out to legally use the work of others, how to protect your own work, and what the various licensing terms mean and how to apply them to your work.

Corel Software for Desktop Publishing
Your starting point for information, tutorials, training, and templates for Corel software for desktop publishing including Ventura and CorelDRAW.

Corel Ventura Tutorials and Training
Presents tips, tutorials, product support, downloads, and training for Corel Ventura, including authorized trainers, informal discussion groups, and conferences.

Corel WordPerfect Software Tutorials
Browse online lessons, macros, tips, and software tutorials for using Corel WordPerfect, especially for desktop publishing tasks.

CorelDRAW Page Layout Tutorials
Although primarily a graphics program, many desktop publishers use CorelDRAW as a complete page layout tool. Most of these tutorials focus on the text handling and prepress features of this program.

Corporate Logos & Trademark Collections
Collections and individuals sources of corporate logo and trademarks including those provided by the companies themselves and those found in CD-ROM collections or other depositories on the Web. Usage guidelines included in some cases.

Creating PostScript Files Tutorials
Learn how to successfully prepare your DTP files for printing as postscript files. Locate and install the required Postscript Printer Driver (PPD).

Creative Printing and Computer Crafts
Find all you need to use desktop publishing skills and your computer to create greeting cards, photo albums, candy wrappers, calendars, iron-on transfers, and gifts. Select easy-to-use software with just the right templates, fonts, and clip art. Get computer craft project ideas.

Creative Typography
Explore creative ways to use type including student work, posters, and fanciful type treatments. Study the creative typography used by graphic designers to communicate more than just the basic meaning of the words.

Creativity Software and Tools
Brainstorming software and other tools for coming up with design ideas and inspiration.

Cropping
Learn what cropping is as it applies to desktop publishing. Discover ways of cropping photos and other graphics for use in publications.

Cross-Platform | Cross-Application
Get tips for working with Mac files on PC or PC files on a Mac. Learn how to open files from one application in another and opening older versions of files.

Database Assisted Publishing
Resources for page layout and database integration and printing.

DCS and OPI for Separations
Desktop Color Separations is an enhanced EPS file format. Open Prepress Interface is a way of working with files that can speed up production. Each has its own strengths when it comes to desktop color separation preparation.

Design & Desktop Publishing Rules
Learn the rules of page layout and graphic design. Here are the basics in a nutshell and guidelines to help with planning, hardware, software, and printing. Browse lists of things to do or not do in desktop publishing.

Design & Layout Tutorials for DTP

Design & Publishing Blogs
Get news and find commentary, musings, and useful Web sites by visiting some of the many blogs devoted to graphics and design topics. The About Desktop Publishing blog often finds news and interesting tidbits from these sources and will point to individual blog entries but for even more stories and commentary visit these individual design-related blogs.

Design Basics Course Index
This is the index and links to the individual classes in the free Design Basics for Desktop Publishing course. New classes in the course will be listed here.

Design Creativity Exercises
Unleash your imagination and break creative blocks. Get tips and tricks to develop graphic design ideas and get inspired.

Design Online, Print Offline
Services that allow you to design a greeting card or other projects online that you then print to your own desktop printer.

Design Organizations and Clubs
Find everything from local computer user groups to international associations for those in most every area of graphic design or printing.

Designing for the Visually Impaired
Browse resources that address color and design issues related to visual perception. Discover how to use color effectively in graphic design and desktop publishing for audiences with limited eyesight.

Desktop Printers
After the computer, perhaps the most important desktop publishing hardware is the printer. Get help in choosing the right desktop printer. Find information to help you decide between laser or inkjet or other technologies and whether or not you need a PostScript printer.

Desktop Publishing & Graphic Design Jobs
Find desktop publishing jobs. Use these databases, resume help, and salary surveys for desktop publishing employment.

Desktop Publishing 101
For fun or for profit, learn the basics of design and page layout.
Q&A | Step-by-Step | Basics | Courses | MORE

Desktop Publishing Business Profiles
Get tips or inspiration from the stories of other desktop publishing entrepreneurs.

Desktop Publishing Careers in Canada
Occupational overviews, job forecasts, and educational opportunities in the fields of desktop publishing and graphic design. Unfortunately, the outlook for these careers is only fair to poor in most parts of Canada.

Desktop Publishing Courses
These are the free desktop publishing courses, training classes, design and business lessons currently online, offered through the About Desktop Publishing GuideSite. Beginner to Intermediate topics, self-paced.

Desktop Publishing Dictionary - Index
Explore definitions, illustrations, and overviews of a variety of graphic design, typography, prepress, and printing terms and techniques.

Desktop Publishing Guide Reviews
Read summaries and in-depth reviews of selected desktop publishing products including software, clip art, and fonts.

Desktop Publishing Hardware
Computer hardware needed by desktop publishers include digital cameras, monitors, printers, scanners, and other peripherals. Get help in choosing between Mac or PC/Windows platforms and selecting the best hardware components doing design and graphics work.

Desktop Publishing History
Take a trip down memory lane. Find out about the coining of the term "desktop publishing," the software used over the years, and the evolution of desktop publishing.

Desktop Publishing in Canada
Canadian sites for information on desktop publishing and graphic design including employment forecasts, educational opportunities, and advice for starting and running your own DTP business in Canada. Both national and province/territory specific resources.

Desktop Publishing K-12 Lesson Plans
Locate desktop publishing lesson plans for K-12 teachers. These are not necessarily for teaching desktop publishing. Use these lesson plans and desktop publishing techniques to teach a variety of subjects.

Desktop Publishing Magazines/Newsletters
Subscribe to one of these desktop publishing magazines and newsletters on printing, graphics, software, and the business of design. Some desktop publishing magazines well-developed Web sites as well.

Desktop Publishing Software
Find, choose, and use page layout and other desktop publishng software including cross-platform solutions, desktop publishing software for kids, and font utilities. Locate industry-standard desktop publishing software from Adobe, Corel, and Quark as well as consumer titles, budget bundles, and specialty software for graphics and design.

Desktop Publishing Tests and Quizzes
How much do you know about desktop publishing? Test yourself with these quizzes. Some have simple prizes but most are just for fun and education.

Desktop Publishing Videos and CD-ROMs
Teach yourself desktop publishing from home with videos and CD-ROMs on the most popular desktop publishing programs and tasks such as scanning and font management.

Diecutting
Learn how to design and print using diecuts -- areas of the document that are slit or cut-out in a variety of shapes. Find templates, advice on diecut designs, and descriptions of the diecutting process.

Digital and Traditional Halftoning
Learn the ins and outs of halftones, screens, traditional and digital halftoning techniques.

Digital Cameras and Photography
One piece of desktop publishing hardware that is both fun and useful is the digital camera. Get tips, techniques, and resources for working with digital cameras and photos.

Digital Ink-based Printing Processes
From Xerox Docutech to fine art digital prints, some of the evolving digital printing and direct-to-plate technologies. Learn about the best applications for Indigo printing, magnetography, thermal autochrome, dye sublimation, solid ink, and other ink-based printing technologies.

Digital/Desktop Printing
Inkjet and laser technologies explained plus tips and utilities for successful desktop printing.

Dingbats, Symbols, and Picture Fonts
Look to these collections for free dingbat fonts -- those mini-clipart collections in font format. Some are original dingbat fonts and others are collections of dingbat fonts, often sorted by theme.

Direct Mail Design Tutorials & Templates
Offers tutorials and tips on putting together an attractive direct mail piece or package. Grab some templates too.

Document Composition Technologies
Beyond PDF, Internet-based technologies and document composition. Application Service Providers for typesetting, design, or desktop publishing.

DTP Email Lists, Newsgroups
Where to find lists and newsgroups to discuss desktop publishing.

Easy Desktop Publishing
Desktop publishing is complicated. Graphic design is not something everyone can do well. However, in a pinch, there are shortcuts, quick fixes, and a few rules of thumb that can help even the most design-challenged among us turn out nice desktop published documents.
4 Steps to Perfect Publications | Basics | Design Disasters to Avoid | Free DTP Software

eBook eMail eZine Publishing
Resources for electronic publishing: eBooks, eMail, eZines.

Electronic Publishing
Learn about publishing to the Web, creating Web graphics, creating other types of electronic documents, including PDF, eBooks, ezines, and email newsletters.

Elements of Graphic Design
The elements of design including color, lines, shapes, and textures are the building blocks of all design. Explore each of the elements of design independently and see how they interact together in visual communications.

Engraving
Although not widely used today by desktop publishers, the art of engraving is not lost and can often be found in fine letterhead. Engraving is a type intaglio printing, a printmaking process used to print US paper currency.

Envelope Templates and Design Tutorials
Create better envelopes for greeting cards, identity systems, and direct mail use with these envelope design, printing, and mailing tips. Find different types of envelope templates for desktop publishing.

Eric Gill 1882-1940
Profiles and biographies of Eric Roland Gill. In addition to his type work, he did wood and stone engravings. His sculpture Stations of the Cross is in Westminster Cathedral, London.

Expert Newsletters
Get into the newsletter publishing business with an expert newsletter. Usually subscription-based or advertising-supported, these newsletters generally focus on a specific topic and the recipient is someone who has specifically requested the information in the newsletter and is willing to pay for the information.

Famous Type Designers and Printers
Profiles of famous type designers, printers, and publishers and their best-known contributions to typography.

Favorite Fonts
You can't go wrong with a classic. Browse classic serif and sans serif fonts, favorite fonts for download, and other featured fonts.

Find a Font
Use these resources to help you find specific fonts.

Finding Clip Art and Photos
Tips for finding the right image, evaluation of clip art collections.

Finding Service Bureaus
Find an service bureau, digital quick printer, or other service provider for your Adobe product files.

Finishing and Distribution
Binding Options | Diecuts | Foil Stamping & Embossing | Folding & Scoring
Document Composition Technologies | Variable Data Printing

Flexography
Get descriptions, pros, and cons of flexographic printing, especially for packaging.

Fliers and Posters
Learn how to design a variety of promotional fliers and posters. Explore the past and present in theatrical, art, and political poster design.

Foil Stamping and Embossing
Find explanations of and tips on using different types of embossing and foil stamping in your desktop designs.

Folding | Scoring
There is an art to folding paper, even simple folds require planning. Get tips and tutorials on paper folding and scoring paper. Find definitions and illustrations for many common paper folds and related terms.

Font Collections in Specialty Themes
Sites that specialize in providing fonts in specific themes such as Sci-Fi fonts, Movie fonts, or Kids Handwriting fonts. Freeware, shareware, and commercial fonts in Windows and Mac formats.

Font Design Techniques
Exploring digital type design techniques. Software for making fonts. Type design standards and tutorials.

Font Search • Find Fonts
With thousands and thousands of fonts available, finding a specific font can be an arduous task. These resources help to break down the font search job into manageable chunks. Find a font when you know the name, identify a font you have only a sample for, find substitute fonts and lookalike or font aliases when the original is out of reach.

Font Software - Management and Editing
Font software for organizing and managing your fonts. Typeface creation and font editing tools. Find the tools you need to work with digital type and learn how to use those font software programs more effectively.

Font Software for Creating Fonts
Software for designing and editing digital type. From the standard of Fontographer to up-and-coming contenders and specialty editors, make your own fonts with one of these font software programs.

Font Software for Macintosh
Macintosh font software for managing your typefaces and printing samplers.

Font Software for Windows and DOS
Windows font software for managing your typefaces and printing samplers. DOS programs too.

Fonts for Desktop Publishing
There are multiple categories of fonts and font tutorials in this section. The fonts have all been moved to our new category structure. Please update your bookmarks and start your search for fonts, free fonts, type foundries, and more HERE.

Forms and Tools
Submission forms for the About Desktop Publishing site. Online tools and downloads for use in desktop publishing.

Franklin Gothic
A popular choice for newspaper work, the various weights give it great versatility and the condensed versions maintain high legibility in tight spaces.

Frederic W. Goudy 1865-1947
Profiles of American type designer Frederic William Goudy.

Free Adobe FrameMaker Templates
Find a selection of free templates for business cards, labels, cd inserts, newsletters, books, and more for Adobe FrameMaker.

Free Adobe Illustrator Templates
Browse templates for business cards, labels, cd inserts, newsletters, and more for Adobe Illustrator.

Free Adobe InDesign Templates
A few sites are offering a handful of free Adobe InDesign templates. InDesign users can also use templates in other formats that InDesign supports, such as PageMaker.

Free Adobe PageMaker Templates
Download PageMaker templates for business cards, labels, cd inserts, newsletters, and more.

Free Clip Art in Mixed Collections
Sites featuring large collections of miscellaneous free clip art pictures of many types. Some site pictures are organized by topic, others are all mixed up.

Free Clip Art of Animals and Plants
Download free pictures of plants, animals, and agriculture. These are primarily print-suitable images in non-GIF bitmap formats.

Free Clip Art of Business and Symbols
Locate free print-suitable clip art pictures related to business and specific professions such as the law. Symbols and icons including disability and recycling symbols.

Free Clip Art of Food and Cooking
Find free food pictures suitable for print. Pictures of fruits, vegetables, breads, meats, food preparation, and cooking clip art in print-suitable formats, mostly non-GIF, all free.

Free Clip Art of Holidays and Recreation
Free, print-suitable clip art pictures related to holidays, religion, and recreational activities. Plus special events and a few other items that just don't fit anywhere else.

Free Clip Art of Maps and Transportation
Get maps, pictures of buildings, and landmarks. Most of the transportation related free clip art images are in print-suitable formats. The maps include printable and interactive maps. Some may come with usage restrictions or be for purchase but you'll find hundreds of maps of the world.

Free Clip Art of People
Print-suitable collections of free clip art images depicting people. Pictures show adults, children, business people, and families in a variety of situations including business and recreational activities and children in school or playing.

Free Clip Art
Find all kinds of free clip art pictures especially those suitable for print. Organized by subject. Download free clip art pictures in TIF, PCX, GIF and other graphics formats.

Free Corel WordPerfect Templates
Search for free Corel WordPerfect templates for business cards, signs, brochures, and more.

Free CorelDRAW Templates
Look for CorelDRAW templates for business cards, signs, brochures, and more.

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Free Fonts - A

Free Fonts - Alpha Index
Alphabetical listing of free fonts offered at the About Desktop Publishing Free Fonts Library.

Free Fonts for Download
Find free fonts organized in categories and special themed collections. Participate in polls, font discussion. Browse featured sites and type designers. Grab a dingbat. Mimic handwriting. Stick with the classics. Get trendy, retro, or go for the grunge. Download some free fonts.

Free Home Publishing Templates
Sift through a miscellaneous group of templates for consumer printing applications.

Free Macromedia Freehand Templates
Find and download free templates for business cards, brochures, labels, and more for Freehand.

Free Microsoft PowerPoint Templates
Create a powerful presentation for free. Download dozens of free templates for use with Microsoft PowerPoint.

Free Microsoft Publisher Templates
Jumpstart Microsoft Publisher document creation with free templates for certificates, newsletters, labels, business cards, and many other projects.

Free Microsoft Word Templates
Speed up document creation with free templates for Microsoft Word word processing software to create newsletters, letterhead, resumes, and other forms.

Free Miscellaneous DTP Templates
Jumpstart your designs and simplify creation of a variety of business documents including invoices and time sheets with templates in non-software specific formats.

Free Photos of Food and Cooking
Find food, fruits, vegetables, and scenes from a kitchen -- free pictures for desktop publishing.

Free Photos of Home or Office Objects
Download free pictures of objects from around the house and yard or found in a home office.

Free Photos of Landscapes and Landmarks
Locate free pictures of country landscapes, mountains, lakes, city skylines, and famous landmarks.

Free Photos of Plants and Flowers
Get free pictures of flowers, weeds, trees, and agriculture scenes for desktop publishing.

Free Photos of Transportation
Download free photographic pictures of cars, boats, planes, trains, and other modes of transportation.

Free Photos of Wild or Domestic Animals
Get free photographs of wild and domestic animals for desktop publishers. Download free pictures of zoo animals, pets, and jungle creatures.

Free Photos
Free photographs of people, places, and things organized in several categories. Use these free pictures for electronic or print publishing or comps.

Free QuarkXPress Templates
Look for templates for Quark products to create newsletters, business cards, brochures, and other documents.

Free Software and More
Free tools including software, type guides, and booklets for desktop publishers.

Free Teacher Templates
Locate free templates for use by teachers in and out of the classroom. Some are printable PDF files and others are program-specific.

Free Templates for Desktop Publishing
Find categorized links to mostly free templates for all your favorite programs. Jumpstart your business cards, brochures, labels, and other designs with templates for products from Adobe, Quark, Microsoft, and others. Both commercial and free templates for download.

Freebies for Desktop Publishing
Free fonts, free clip art for print, free booklets and tools especially for desktop publishers. Free templates to jumpstart designs and software especially for DTP.

Freelance Design and Publishing
Be your own boss.
Start DTP Business | Biz Plans | Contracts | MUCH MORE

Freelance Desktop Publishing in Canada
Issues specific to doing desktop publishing and graphic design in Canada. Starting and running a business, dealing with taxes, setting prices.

Frutiger
This clean, legible sans serif font from Adrian Frutiger was originally designed for signage but works quite well for text and display. It was drawn with a certain subtle unevenness that produced a font that is warmer, friendlier than Helvetica and other early sans serifs.

Futura
Longer ascenders and descenders than many similiar text sans serif faces plus its geometric consistency help give Futura its elegant and practical appearance. It comes in many weights and makes a handsome choice for text and display use.

Garamond
Typefaces bearing the Garamond name are not always based on the designs of Claude Garamond; however, they share certain characteristics of timeless beauty and readability.

General Categories of Software
Page Layout or Desktop publishing software falls into 4 broad categories: Professional (the bulk of this site), Business or Enterprise, SOHO (Small Business), and Home Publishing software for desktop publishing.

Gestalt Principles
"The sum of the whole is greater than its parts" is the idea behind the principle of gestalt. It's the perception of a composition as a whole. While each of the individual parts have meaning on their own, taken together, the meaning may change. Our perception of the piece is based on our understanding of all the bits and pieces working in unison.

Get Text Into A Page Layout Program
Browse tips and tutorials for getting your text into your page layout software. Learn how to import or place plain text files, RTF files, tagged text, and other formats from an editor or word processor into a desktop publishing application.

Getting Graphics into DTP Programs
Tips for getting your graphics into your page layout program.

Giambattista Bodoni 1740–1813
Profiles and biographies of Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni. His typefaces were published posthumously in the two-volume Manuale Tipografico.

Gill Sans
Eric Gill's popular and highly legible sans serif comes in several weights for both text and display use.

Glossary Words - A
Agate, All Caps, Asymmetrical, and more

Glossary Words - B
Baseline, Blueline, Bullet, and more

Glossary Words - C
Camera Ready, Colophon, Creep, and more.

Glossary Words - D
Deck, Descender, DPI, and more

Glossary Words - E
Eggshell Finish, End Sign, Expert Characters, and more

Glossary Words - F
Finish, Flush, Folio, and more

Glossary Words - G
Grammage, Graph, Greeking, and more

Glossary Words - H
Halftone and more.

Glossary Words - I
Ink Embossing and more

Glossary Words - J
Jaggies and more

Glossary Words - K
Kerning, Keyline, and more

Glossary Words - L
Leading, Ligature, and more

Glossary Words - M
Masthead, Modern, and more.

Glossary Words - N
Nameplate and more.

Glossary Words - O
Old Style, Opacity, and more.

Glossary Words - P
Pica, PPI, Proof, and more.

Glossary Words - Q X Y Z
X-Height and more.

Glossary Words - R
Rag, Ream, and more.

Glossary Words - S
Serif, Signature, Stat, and more.

Glossary Words - T
Tail, Tooth, Trim Size, and more.

Glossary Words - U
Uppercase and more.

Glossary Words - V
Varnish and more.

Glossary Words - W
Wire Side and more.

Goudy
This popular typeface from Frederic W. Goudy has evolved over the years to include many weights and variations.

Graphics Glossary
Take a look at the terminology of graphics, especially as it applies to desktop publishing. Get definitions, examples, and tutorials.

Graphics Software for Desktop Publishing
Photo or Image editing programs and illustration programs are essential to most desktop publishing. Some illustration software also does double-duty as a page layout solution.

Graphics Tutorials

Gravure Printing
Learn more about rotogravure and its uses. Gravure printing is commonly used for labels and packaging, competing against flexography. Photogravure is a process used mostly for fine art prints.

Greeting Card and Envelope Design
Explore tips, ideas, and templates for designing and printing greeting cards, invitations. Select specialty software for creating all occasion cards.

Greeting Card Design Tutorials
Learn what it takes to design and print cards and invitations. This is general design advice, techniques to use, and money-saving tips for wedding invitations, holiday or special occasion printable greeting cards and self-made or decorated envelopes.

Greeting Card Software
Software designed specifically for making greeting cards. Some also do related items such as banners or posters.

Greeting Card Templates
Get templates, ideas, and inspiration for making your own greeting cards and invitations. Find printable greeting cards, pop-up templates, and PDF templates for special occasion and thank you cards.

Grids for Desktop Publishing
Learn what a grid is, formats for grids, and how to put together basic and complex grids, leading grids, and layouts. Use grids to provide page-to-page consistency, unify and align page elements, and provide design continuity across related documents.

Handwriting Fonts
Find handwriting fonts in print and cursive styles. Download fonts that mimic the handwriting of children or adults and stylized script styles. Locate school fonts for teaching proper handwriting.

Helvetica
One of the most popular and confusing typefaces, it was originally designed by Max Miedinger in 1957. The introduction of Helvetica Neue brought some order to the chaos with more design consistency among the various weights that had developed throughout the 60s and 70s. Helvetica works well for many applications from body text to billboards.

Hermann Zapf 1918-
Learn about his many typographic contributions including Palatino, Optima, and Melior.

Hinting in Font Design
For font designers, information on the hinting process. How it works.

Historical Fonts
Find Old English, Fraktur, and other medieval and historical old script fonts for download. Use these old-fashioned fonts as decorative drop caps, for certificates and awards, or to mimic an Old World style of writing.

History of Typography
Explore typographic history and the evolution of digital type. Learn the meaning behind certain characters and how the use of type has grown and changed.

Holiday Fonts
Say Be My Valentine, Merry Christmas, or Trick or Treat in fonts that echo the holiday theme. These holiday fonts include text and dingbat fonts for holidays and other special occasions.

Home Publishing • Creative Printing
Home publishing and creativity software for the home user and some small businesses. Create fun computer craft projects such as cards, calendars, and photo albums or print your own business cards and brochures.

How to Make Fonts
Digitial type design tips and tutorials. Making your own fonts.

ICC Profiles
ICC profiles provide a way to insure consistent color. These files are specific to each device on your system and contain information about how that device produces color. Get a profile for your monitor, printer, scanner, digital camera or other equipment.

Identify a Font
You have a font sample but can't figure out what font it is? Use these resources to zero in on the right font or something similar.

Identity Design
Design makeovers, examples, tips, and tools for business cards, logos, letterhead and other elements of corporate identity systems.

Illustration and Photo Techniques
Tutorials and tips for modifying and creating vector and raster images and working with photographs.

Imposition
Impose your files, create printer's spreads, booklets. Tips to get your pages in the right order for printing.

Inkjet Printing
Drop-on-demand, thermal, piezoelectric, and continuous flow inkjet technologies and applications are explained and explored here. Get tips for better inkjet printing.

Input Devices - Keyboard, Mouse, Tablet
Mouse or Tablet? QWERTY keyboard or Dvorak? Choose the best input device for your desktop publishing needs.

Install Fonts | Solve Font Problems
How to install fonts on Mac and PC. How to avoid, diagnose, or resolve font conflicts and printer errors when using digital type.

Internet Marketing
How and why to use the Internet and the Web to market your desktop publishing business.

Introduction to PostScript
Simply put, PostScript is a programming or page description language. It is a way of describing what a page should look like. Learn about PostScript, the language of desktop publishing, and find out how to solve common PostScript errors.

Iron-on Transfer Crafts and Software
Create iron-on t-shirt designs and other fabric iron-ons with these tips, templates, and software.

Jan Tschichold 1902-1974
An early advocate of sans serif typefaces and assymmetrical design. His classical typeface, Sabon, was commissioned by Monotype, Linotype, and Stempel and remains popular today.

Johannes Gutenberg c. 1397-1468
Known for the Gutenberg Bible, he is credited as the inventor of moveable type and the birth of modern typesetting and printing.

John Baskerville 1706–1775
Read profiles and biographies of this English type designer and printer of the 18th Century.

Kid's Home Publishing/Creative Printing
Explore design and graphics programs for children, teens, and home users. These programs usually feature more helpful wizards, activities aimed at younger children, and simplified controls.

Labels Design and Printing
Browse design tips and guidelines for designing and printing labels. Get general design and production tips plus information on specific types of labels such as package, fabric, and wine labels.

Land the Assignment, Keep the Client
Once you find a potential customer for your desktop publishing business how do you convince them to hire you? Learn how to interview clients, show your portfolio, and get the assignment. Once hired, get tips on keeping clients and working with difficult clients.

Language Fonts Beyond Western Europe
Where to find fonts for character sets other than Latin-1 or Western European languages (English, French, Spanish, etc.) including Arabic, Japanese, Cyrillic, Central and Eastern European, Hebrew, and Greek.

Laser Printing
Understand the technology behind laser printing and learn how to troubleshoot laser printer problems.

Letterhead Design Tutorials & Templates
Design better letterhead and corporate stationery and faxes as part of your business identity system with these tips, templates, and tutorials.

Letterpress
It's the oldest form of printing, also known as relief printing. Not in widespread use, learn about how letterpress printing works and its current uses.

Logo Design Tutorials
The most prominent identity item for many businesses is the logo. It appears on almost all printed materials. Explore these logo design tutorials and techniques to help you design the best logo for your business or your clients.

Logos and Trademarks Usage Guidelines
Brand usage guidelines and downloads of company logos direct from their Web sites.

Mac Desktop Publishing Software
Browse selections of Mac OS desktop publishing software. Find information and help with the major programs, utilities, and other desktop publishing software products for the Macintosh.

Macintosh Cross-Platform Software
Programs for working with PC files on a Mac.

Macintosh Word Processors

Magazine Design and Publishing
Browse magazine design and production tips. Find publications for magazine publishers, makeovers, and trends in magazine publishing.

Marketing and Promotion
Finding clients for your desktop publishing business, marketing and promotion ideas. Write the perfect press release. Get publicity. Get your name in front of potential clients. Market your desktop publishing business cost effectively.

Measuring Type
Learn how to measure and specify type. Find typography tutorials all about points and picas.

Medium/Large Collections of Free Fonts
Where to find freeware fonts. Medium and large freeware font depositories. Mostly original collections (but not all).

Memory and Storage Devices
How much memory do you need? How big of a hard drive is big enough for doing desktop publishing? Should you get a ZIP drive? Here's help in deciding which storage peripherals to buy.

Microsoft PowerPoint Templates to Buy
Purchase professional designed PowerPoint templates individually or on CD. Some collections are offered in themes or can be customized for your company. Some vendors offer free samples.

Microsoft PowerPoint Templates
Simplify the creation of stunning presentations with these Microsoft PowerPoint templates and background graphics. Many are free while some commercial vendors offer free samples. Learn how to use templates with PowerPoint.

Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Tutorials
Create better presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint with tips and tutorials from About Business Software.

Microsoft Publisher Courses and Seminars
Find formal training, classes, schools, and professional seminars for learning Microsoft Publisher, online and off.

Microsoft Publisher Tutorials & Training
Find everything you need to help you master this software including Microsoft Publisher tutorials, templates, plus online and offline classes for Microsoft Publisher.

Microsoft Publisher Tutorials - 98
Still using Publisher 98? Find tutorials and FAQs for this older version of Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing software.

Microsoft Publisher Tutorials -2000/2002
Browse tutorials and FAQs related to Microsoft Publisher 2000 and 2002. Learn how to use all the features of this popular mid-level desktop publishing program.

Microsoft Software - Desktop Publishing
Your starting point for information, tutorials, training, and templates for Microsoft software for desktop publishing including Publisher and PowerPoint.

Microsoft Word Tips and Tutorials
Tech support, tips, and tutorials for Microsoft Word software especially instructions for doing fancy or complex layouts and desktop publishing with Word.

Miscellaneous Free Photos
Browse a selection of textures, backgrounds, and objects not classified elsewhere. Free pictures for desktop publishing including sites that offer a multitude of free or public domain images in many different categories.

Monitors
A good monitor is probably a more important piece of desktop publishing hardware than a large hard drive. Get advice on buying a monitor for desktop publishing and graphics work.

Myriad
You'lll find a myriad of uses for this 1990s era Adobe Originals typeface. Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, and other Adobe staff had a hand in the design.

Newsletter Content
Find out how and where to find and use newsletter content. Try out free and 'for money' sources of newsletter articles, fillers, and photos. Get advice on the type of newsletter content that appeals to specific audiences.

Newsletter Design
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Newsletter Planning and Strategy
Explore steps and methods for newsletter planning from start to finish. Learn how to develop newsletter strategies and a focus for different types of newsletters.

Newsletters
Design, edit, and publish newsletters.

Newspaper Design and Publishing
Browse newspaper design and production tips for editors and graphic designers. Newspaper publishing topics include using dummies and grids, type selection, page layout, illustrations, writing, photojournalism, and production advice.

Nicholas Jenson 1420-1480
His style of roman type is the letterforms to which we are most accustomed.

Non-English Word Processors
These programs for Macintosh and Windows are designed for non-English languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and Spanish.

Non-Mac/PC Word Processors (Linux, etc.)
Word proccessors for DOS, Linux, Unix, OS/2 and other non-Windows, non-Mac operating systems.

Office Furniture, Machines, Gadgets
Beyond computer hardware and software, desktop publishing may require a myriad of other types of equipment including paper shredders, paper trimmers, desks, lamps, drafting tables, and chairs. Here's advice on making the most of these office items.

Offset Lithography
Find descriptions, uses, and tips for sheetfed and web offset printing, the type of printing most people think of when talking about commercial printing.

Optima
Hermann Zapf created Optima with tapered strokes that are almost like serif faces, but without the serifs. A classy choice for text and display use.

Overall Desktop Publishing Resources
In addition to the extensive resources of this site, find more articles, discussion, links, reviews, and editorials for Mac and PC designers at these great all-around sites.

Package Design
Explore tips and ideas for designing and producing product packaging including boxes. Get inspiration from winning package designs and makeovers. Learn about software and other tools for package design.

Packaging and Label Design
Find tips, software, tools for creating boxes, labels, bags, and other product packages. Explore printing technologies for packaging, guidelines for label design.

Packaging Production
Explore tools and printing technologies for packaging. Learn about flexography vs. gravure printing processes, types of packaging available for products.

Page Layout and Design Glossary
Learn the components of a page and the process of design and page layout through definitions, examples, and tutorials.

Page Layout
Beyond the technical operation of the software, good design needs the right colors, exciting layout ideas, and tried and true elements such as balance, contrast, and white space. Grids tie the elements of a design together and provide a framework for the page layout.

PageMaker Graphics Tutorials
Tutorials, shortcuts, tips, and tricks for working with graphics in Adobe PageMaker software.

PageMaker PDF Tutorials
Working with the PDF format and Adobe PageMaker -- tips, tutorials.

PageMaker Prepress, Printing Tutorials
Tutorials, shortcuts, tips, and tricks for performing prepress tasks and printing from Adobe PageMaker software.

PageMaker Scripts, Scripting Tutorials
Tutorials, shortcuts, tips, and tricks for using Scripts in Adobe PageMaker software.

PageMaker Setup, Production Tutorials
Tutorials and tips for setting up Adobe PageMaker and general production advice.

PageMaker Text and Type Tutorials
Tips and tutorials for working with text or manipulating type in PageMaker.

PageMaker Web/HTML Tutorials
Tutorials for working with Web and HTML features of Adobe PageMaker.

Palatino
A widely-used font for both body text and display type, it was designed originally by Hermann Zapf. Part of its widespread use may stem from its inclusion — along with Helvetica and Times — with the Mac OS.

PANTONE Color Guides and Chips
The PANTONE Matching System (PMS) is the dominant spot color printing system in the United States. Pantone, Inc. sells color guides (known as swatch books) and chips for both their spot colors and for process color printing. Learn more about Pantone colors and where to obtain swatch books.

Paper and Paper-related Products
Whether you print from your desktop printer or go commercial, you need paper. Choose the right paper for the project.

Paper Selection
Get tips on paper selection and creative uses for paper in design. Learn how to select the right paper for laser, inkjet, or offset printing.

Paper Specifications
Learn about paper sizes, printing specifications, scoring, cutting, and folding paper for desktop publishing projects.

PC and Windows Cross-Platform Software
Programs for working with Mac files on PC.

PDF - Portable Document Format
All about creating, viewing, printing, and troubleshooting Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Using PDF for prepress.

PDF - Software for Creation & Management
Whether you need to view, print, create, or manage PDF files here are a variety of software solutions from Acrobat Distiller to free printer drivers for PDF export.

PDF - What it is and how to use it
An overview of the PDF format and ways it can be used. Learn about its benefits, its future, its place in electronic publishing.

PDF for Prepress
Why to use the PDF format for prepress and printing. How to properly prepare your PDF files for printing.

PDF Tips and Discussion
Troubleshooting advice, tips, and discussion lists for the PDF format.

PDF Tutorials
How to create and work with PDF files in a variety of programs.

Periodicals Design and Publishing
Find newsletter, newspaper, and magazine design, production, and publishing resources including tips, tools, makeovers, advice for editors and designers. Offers article ideas and content for periodicals including marketing and employee communications.

Pictures for Desktop Publishing
Find free and commercial sources of clip art and photos for use in desktop publishing and graphic design. This is the top level directory to all the images for desktop publishing covered on this site.

Postcard Design Tutorials
Get tips, tutorials, and ideas for designing and using postcards. Learn how to use postcards as a marketing device, create postcard size newsletters, and make sure your postcard design meets postal requirements.

PostScript (Type 1) Fonts
Free TrueType fonts are plentiful on this site and on the Web. However free Type 1 PostScript fonts are harder to locate. These sites feature those elusive PostScript fonts.

PostScript and PCL Comparison
Both PostScript and PCL are page description languages. Some printers use both. Learn about the differences and similarities of these two technologies and how they affect your printing.

PostScript for Prepress and Printing
View, print, convert PostScript files. Software to print to non-PostScript printers. Troubleshooting tips.

PostScript Software Solutions
View PostScript and EPS files, print PostScript files from non-PostScript printers. View, print, fax, and convert PS files.

PostScript Type 1 vs. TrueType Fonts
Similarities, differences, and best choice between PostScript Type 1 and TrueType Fonts.

Prepress and Printing Glossary
Get a better understanding of prepress procedures, printing processes, and finishing techniques with these definitions and lessons. Improve your prepress vocabulary.

Prepress Collection & Preflight Software
Software for collecting and preflighting your files to insure the best final output from your service bureau or printer. Automate the process of performing preflight checks and preparing files for service bureau output.

Prepress Tutorials & Preflight File Prep
Ensure your files print right by preparing them properly before they go to the printer. Avoid common prepress problems with fonts and graphics using these checklists, guidelines, and prepress tutorials.

Presentations
Get tips and tutorials on designing effective presentations and presentation graphics.

Pricing your Desktop Publishing Services
Learn how to set the right price for design and production services, raise your rates, and discuss pricing options with your desktop publishing clients. Explore the pros and cons of hourly vs. project rates, collecting bills, late fees, and flexible fee schedules.

Principles of Design
The principles of design include balance, contrast, white space, and proximity. Learn how each of these principles of design work independently and in conjunction with the others in page layout and graphic design.

Print to Web Transition
Resources for desktop publishers moving from print to the Web or repurposing content for electronic distribution.

Printer Drivers
Control how your documents print by using the correct printer driver for your output device. Learn about what a printer driver is, how it works, and find out where to download and install the ones you need.

Printers and Service Bureaus
When you need to go beyond desktop printing you'll need the services of a service bureau and/or commercial printer. Find where print providers and print buyers meet online, locate an authorized service bureau.

Printing & Finishing
This is the top level printing directory:
Commercial Printing | Desktop Printing | Working with Printers/Service Bureaus | MORE

Printing Inks Technologies and Tips
Learn about the different types of inks used in desktop printers and commercial printing technologies. Find out how a few inks can produce millions of colors.

Printing Presses and Platemaking
You may never see one but understanding the commercial printing process requires at least a passing knowledge of the types of printing presses used to print your project. Learn about sheet-fed and web presses, platemaking, cylinders, and other printing press topics.

Printing Tutorials
When you need to go beyond desktop printing you'll need the services of a service bureau and/or commercial printer. Get tips for working with commercial service providers as well as timesaving printing advice and help with desktop printing too.

Pro Bono Design
How and why (or why not) to give away your design and desktop publishing services.

Process Color
Also known as CMYK (or CYMK) or 4-color, learn how to specify and print process colors. Other related issues include Euroscale, SWOP, Trumatch, and Hexachrome colors.

Professional Desktop Publishing Software
When you need to go beyond wizards and desktop printing, these are the high-end, advanced page layout tools used for desktop publishing.

Professional/Educational Resources
Find professional associations, classes, magazines, lesson plans, and information on copyright issues that affect designers.

Promotional Items Templates & Tutorials
Get tips and tutorials on designing a variety of promotional items including posters, product data sheets, fliers, leave-behinds. Find templates to jumpstart your designs.

Promotional or Marketing Newsletters
Market your own business or help other businesses market their products or services with a promotional newsletter. Also known as a marketing newsletter, a promotional newsletter is typically sent to current or prospective customers free of charge. Not strictly a sales pitch, the promotional newsletter does strive to turn prospects into customers and customers into repeat customers.

Proofreading
There's more to proofreading that just correcting typos. Learn how to proofread properly, tips and tricks for catching more errors, how to use proofreaders' marks, and the role of proofreading in desktop publishing.

Proofs and Press Checks
Explore different methods of proofing your desktop publishing documents including color proofs, bluelines, digital proofs, off-press and composite proofing, how to read a proof, what to look for on a press check.

Protect Your Work from Infringement
As a designer or desktop publisher learn how to protect your own hard work from copyright infringement.

Proximity - Principles of Design
Grouping like objects and separating unlike elements is using proximity in design to show relationships and importance.

Publication Art - Technical Illustration
Put the art in the chart with these tips and tutorials for creating technical illustrations for publications.

Publication Artwork - Covers, Jackets
Tutorials and advice offered on how to prepare artwork for book covers, dust jackets, and non-technical illustrations for books and magazines.

Publisher Tutorials - Importing Text
Get your word processing text into Microsoft Publisher with these tips and tutorials.

Quark | Everything About Quark Software
This is your starting point for information, tutorials, training, and templates for Quark software for desktop publishing primarily QuarkXPress, plus XTensions.

QuarkXPress Tutorials - Graphics
Browse detailed tutorials for working with photos and using the drawing tools in QuarkXPress software.

QuarkXPress Tutorials - HTML and Web
Learn how to prepare QuarkXPress files for the Web. Convert QuarkXPress documents to HTML.

QuarkXPress Tutorials - Importing Text
Import your word processing text into QuarkXPress with these tips and tutorials.

QuarkXPress Tutorials - Tables, Indexes
Work with indexes and create tables more efficiently in QuarkXPress.

QuarkXPress Tutorials - Text and Type
Work with text, fine-tune your type in QuarkXPress. Learn how to adjust leading, word and letter spacing. Use anchors and text chains.

QuarkXPress Tutorials and Training
Look for tips, tutorials product support, downloads, templates,and publications for QuarkXPress. Find formal and informal training classes and seminars both online and offline for this popular desktop publishing program.

QuarkXPress Tutorials
Whether you need to master a specific text-related technique or want to learn everything possible about the program, these online QuarkXPress tutorials will help you master the program.

QuarkXPress Tutorials-Prepress, Printing
Get your QuarkXPress files ready for printing with these tutorials. Create PostScript files, trap your files.

QuarkXPress Tutorials-Setup & Production
Provides program and page setup and production tips. Set preferences, work with QuarkXPress tools, and do the initial setup for your document. Tweak the overall layout.

QuarkXPress XTensions
Extending the reach of QuarkXPress with all types of XTensions.

Relationship Newsletters
Find tips and creative design ideas for publishers of non-subscription relationship newsletters. Examples of this type of newsletter are club newsletters, employee newsletters, and alumni newsletters. Design and write effective newsletters for employees, clubs, or other organizations.

Resolution
As it is used in desktop publishing, resolution refers to the dots of ink or electronic pixels that make up a picture whether it is printed on paper or displayed on-screen.

RIP - Raster Image Processor
RIP is the process and the means of turning vector digital information such as a PostScript file into a high-resolution raster image for printing. Understanding RIP can help you prepare files that print and print right.

Rulers, Guides, Charts, Special Tools
A select group of tools to make your desktop publishing easier, especially non-software items.

Sabon
Designed in the 1960s by Jan Tschichold, it's based on Garamond types. Those commissioning the font design specified that it should be "suitable for all printing purposes" — and it is.

Scanners
Find illustrations and explanations to help you understand scanners and how they work. Get nformation on types of scanners, resolution, and choosing a scanner for graphics and design work.

Scanning & Optical Character Recognition
How to scan words and then turn them into editable text.

Scanning and Graphics Tutorials
Learn about scanners, scanning techniques including OCR, choosing and using graphics acquired from scanning, digital photography, or other means in desktop publishing.

Scanning Photos from Books and Magazines
Explore ways to remove moiré patterns and get better looking images when scanning photos from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed materials which often produce moiré interference patterns.

Scanning Resolution, Scaling, File Size
Getting a great scan by understanding resolution, bit depth, file formats and sizes, and scaling options.

Scanning Special Effects and Projects
Creative scanning projects and tips on scanning 3D objects, books, and other articles. Ideas for using scanned photos.

Scanning Tutorials
Everything a beginner needs to get started scanning plus advanced tips and tricks for black and white and color scanning and special effects.
OCR | Moire | Special Effects | Resolution | MORE

Sci-Fi and Alien Fonts
Get your Star Trek and Babylon 5 fonts, space aliens, and futuristic or space age fonts here. Write your messages in Klingon or Bajoran alien fonts. Make a science fiction movie poster with sci-fi and alien fonts.

Scrapbooks
Scrapbooking fans can do much of their hobby with their computer. Get tips and templates here for scrapbooks, family albums, and memory books.

Screen Captures
Get tips for the best possible screen captures and using screen capture images. Learn about specialty software you can use or how to use the built-in capabilities of your OS to make screen shots.

Self-Publishing Basics for Periodicals
Learn the basics of how to start a newsletter, magazine, or newspaper publishing business. These articles are specifically for those just getting starting or thinking of getting into self-publishing.

Self-Publishing Books
Tips for self-publishing books.

Self-Publishing Greeting Cards
Find tips on writing for greeting card publishers or getting your own custom-designed cards published. Learn how to start a home-based greeting card business.

Self-Publishing
Self-publishing periodicals including newsletters, plus booklets and books.

Shareware/Freeware Font Collections
Most of these sites have fairly large collections of shareware and/or freeware fonts. These are sites that collect fonts from all over, and are not necessarily font author sites.

Signage and Signmaking
Tips on designing signs of all kinds, including retail signage, road signs, and personal signs.

Silkscreen | Screen Printing
Screen or silkscreen printing is popular for t-shirts but works for many other non-textile projects as well. Learn more about the variations of screen printing.

Small Collections of Original Free Fonts
Sites with small collections of (usually) original free fonts. Due to non-distribution restrictions, some of these fonts are not found at the larger font repositories.

Software and Hardware for DTP
This is the top level directory to all the software and hardware used in desktop publishing:
Hardware | Software

Software Tips for Color Separations
Create color separations and have them print correctly from your software.

SOHO Desktop Publishing Software
Here are desktop publishing programs for the do-it-yourself SOHO business owner. These programs contain some of the functionality of the advanced, professional-level tools but include more templates and wizards to help novice users.

SOHO Desktop Publishing
Sometimes small businesses of all kinds prefer to take the do-it-yourself route when creating marketing and advertising materials. Find the software and design advice that will enable you to create a good impression.

Special Categories of Software
While the main application for desktop publishing is page layout software, there are also special purpose software programs and utilities.

Special, Extended, and Expert Characters
Explore the use (or abuse) of ligatures, small caps, old style figures, and other fine typographical features through tutorials and essays. Learn how to use accent marks and access special and extended characters in fonts.

Spot Color
Learn how spot colors are specified and used in desktop publishing with emphasis on PANTONE, the dominant spot color printing system in the United States. Other spot color systems include TOYO, DIC, and ANPA.

Standards in Typeface Design
Design standards and FAQs for digital type designers.

Starting a Desktop Publishing Business
Learn step by step how to start a desktop publishing business. Get advice on naming your business and the structure it should take, overview of types of design and publishing businesses, developing a business plan, pricing your services, and other other start-up essentials.

Stochastic
Also called frequency modulation (FM) screening, stochastic screening uses same size dots but varies the density to create an image that is closer to continuous tone than conventional halftone processes.

Stock Photos Vendors
These collections and services offer royalty-free stock and restricted use photographic images. Find pictures for print and Web publishing, including comps. Browse online catalogs by theme, photographer, or use. Preview and purchase individual pictures or image collections on CD. Offerings vary by vendor.

Stone Serif
A relatively "young" design from the late 1980s, the whole family with its coordinated serif, sans serif, and informal families work well for mixing and matching styles.

Targets and Test Images for Calibration
Whether visually or with color management software, target images provide a range of color and grayscale for calibrating monitors, printers, scanners, and digital cameras. Find free and commercial scanner targets, their reference files, and other test images.

Taxes and Desktop Publishing
Explore tax matters including income tax, social security, self-employment taxes, state taxes, paying quarterly estimated taxes, and sales taxes for desktop publishing businesses. In addition to US specific details, find tax resources for Canada and other countries as well.

Technical Issues with Using Digital Type
Barcode, Unicode, TrueType, PostScript, Multiple Master, OpenType fonts, and other technologies examined.

Technical Writing for Desktop Publishers
Writing and book indexing help for desktop publishers.

Terms of Usage for Clip Art, Fonts
Go right to the source and find out how and when you can use the images you've acquired.

Text Composition Tutorials
Text composition deals with how fonts are arranged on the page. It involves manipulating text placement and altering the visual appearance of the text.

Text Wraps
Get tips and tutorials for text wraps in page layout software.

Thermography
Learn how, when, and why to use thermography or raised printing and explanations of the types of thermography.

Times
Possibly overused but a good basic face nonetheless. Originally designed for newspaper use, Times, Times New Roman, and other variations are designed to be easily readable and legible as body text — a neutral font.

Top Picks of Clip Art and Fonts
Get the right pictures and typefaces for your projects with these collections and sources for quality clip art, photos, fonts, and related items.

Top Picks of Macintosh Software
The best beginner, advanced, budget, and specialty software packages for all kinds of desktop publishing on the Macintosh platform.

Top Picks of Paper and Paper Products
Desktop publishers use lots of paper. Find the best papers for your next project or paper-related tools and accessories to make your paper use easier or more fun.

Top Picks of Windows Software
The best beginner, advanced, budget, and specialty software packages for all kinds of desktop publishing on the Windows platform.

Top Picks
Guide selections of recommended software, books, clip art and other desktop publishing tools in a variety of categories.

Traditional Graphic Design & Prepress
Desktop publishing software does it all - almost. But before PageMaker there were e-scales, paste-up, and other non-computer ways of putting together a design for printing. Some of these skills still have their place in today's world. Others are simply "nice to know" trivia facts.

Trapping
Get definitions, illustrations, and tutorials for understanding trapping and how and when it is necessary.

TV and Movie Fonts
Find free fonts based on the type used in the titles and credits of television shows and movies. Get the look of "Friends" or "Charmed" or shows from the 50s and 60s with free TV fonts. Make your own movie poster for "Austin Powers" or "Godzilla" using free movie fonts.

Type and Font Copyright Issues
Copyright issues facing designers and users of digital type.

Type Legibility and Readability
Learn about what makes type legible and easy to read -- from type size to line length to specific fonts designed for readability. Explore alignment, typographic studies, and legibility vs. readability.

Type Tutorials - Using Fonts in DTP
Dig into advanced tips and techniques for using type. Find typography tutorials on using expert characters including diacriticals and ligatures. Get type and page layout tips, advice on increasing readability with proper use of type, and copyright issues facing type designers and type users.

Typeface Classifications
The basic classifications of type, what they look like and how they evolved.

Types of Graphic Images
Part of choosing the right clip art image or photo is knowing what role that image plays in the final design. Discover the types of graphic images including metaphors, illustrations that educate, and images that grab attention or organize information.

Typewriter Fonts
Make your computer mimic an old typewriter. Find and download crisp and clean or distressed and grungy typewriter fonts in serif and sans serif faces.

Typography Glossary
Explore the world of typography and digital type through words, definitions, and mini-tutorials on using fonts in desktop publishing.

Typography on Screen
Writing and reading on-screen differs from print so typography online has its own idiosyncrasies. Learn what you can and cannot control and which type treatments work best for Web, email, and other non-print forms of communication.

Typography Rules, Typesetting Guidelines
Get familiar with the basic rules of typography and general typesetting guidelines. Avoid beginner mistakes when setting type and using fonts.

Typography Tutorials - Spacing
Peruse typography tutorials and articles on effectively using line spacing and letter spacing. Learn how to kern headlines, set leading, and use tracking.

Typography Tutorials - Type Anatomy
Get a handle on basic terms of typography and the parts of a letter, the elements that make up our alphabets. Typography tutorials focus on the anatomy of type.

Typography Tutorials - Type Styles
Tutorials teach how to use various styles of type including bold, italics, bold italic, underlining, superscript, and other options.

Univers
Similiar to the ever-popular Helvetica, there are 21 typefaces in Adrian Frutiger's Univers family. The full range of consistently developed weights makes it a versatile choice that mixes and matches well for text and display.

Using Commercial Printers
How to find the right printer and how to choose between different types of printing for your desktop published job.

Using Page Layout Software
How page layout or desktop publishing software differs from other software, common tools and procedures.

Using Service Bureaus
Find out what a service bureau is, what it does, and how to work effectively with one.

Using Symbols, Signs, and Icons
Learn what different graphic symbols represent and how to choose and use symbols, icons, and other graphic representations effectively in print and electronic publications or signage.

Variable Data Printing
Discover resources and ways to use on-demand and variable data printing.

Videos, CD-ROMs for Adobe InDesign
Videos and CD-ROMs for learning desktop publishing with Adobe InDesign software.

Videos, CD-ROMs for Microsoft Publisher
Videos and CD-ROMs for learning desktop publishing with Microsoft Publisher software.

Visual Monitor Calibration Tests
For many users, a few simple adjustments to contrast and brightness are sufficient for their color management needs. These tests and instructions offer a variety of options for calibrating a monitor without calibration tools or custom profiles.

Watermarks
How to create watermarks for documents and graphics for security or as a decorative or informational element.

Web Color
Understand and use color effectively on the Web. Learn how to select browser safe color palettes, non-dithering palettes, and choose readable color combinations. Download Color Lookup Tables (CLUT) in a variety of formats.

Web Page Design Tutorials and Advice
Find resources for desktop publishers who are also designing Web pages. Web publishing is a natural transition for many print publishers. Learn how to design perfect online publications.

Wedding and Anniversary Projects
Pick up tips and find materials for creating wedding invitations and related bridal and wedding materials with computer software and printing.

What You Need to Know Before You Buy
Discover what you need to know before buying desktop publishing software including what features to look for in desktop publishing software programs. Get buying advice for desktop publishing tools.

What's New at About Desktop Publishing
Check here to see the newest links to desktop publishing information on other Web sites and the newest lessons, tutorials, reviews, and special features from your Guide.

White Space - Principles of Design
Put white space into your design to give it some breathing room and make it less cramped, confusing, or overwhelming.

Why & How to Hire a Desktop Publisher
When you don't want to do it yourself, find out what to look for and what to ask when hiring and working with a professional desktop publisher or graphic designer.

William Caslon 1692–1766
One of this English type designer's highly legible designs were used to print the United States Declaration of Independence.

William Caxton c. 1421–1491
From textiles to printing, this English printer produced the first printed book in English to make extensive use of woodcuts. Learn more from these profiles and biographies.

Windows Bitmap and Vector Graphics
Specifications and tips for the BMP, PCX, CGM, and WMF graphics file formats for Windows.

Windows Desktop Publishing Software
Windows users have tons of choices for desktop publishing software from home use to professional. Here are some of the top choices plus utilities and related desktop publishing software products.

Windows Word Processors

Women in Typography
While few have their names immortalized in type, unlike their male counterparts including Garamond, Gill, Bodini, and Frutiger, these women have all made or continue to make significant contributions to typography.

Word Processing
At its most basic level, word processing is typing. However, it generally involves some degree of formatting and may also involve integration of graphics. Word processing software is often used in conjunction with dedicated page layout programs to work with large amounts of text.

Word Processors

Work-at-Home Desktop Publishing
Learn how to run a desktop publishing from home, work long distance with customers, survive without co-workers, and general advice for work-at-home self-employment.

Writing & Editing
Desktop publishing often involves writing material for yourself or others as well as self-editing, editing, and proofreading. Learn basic grammar, writing, copywriting, and technical writing skills, how to edit and proofread.

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