Starting your desktop publishing project at the endWritten by Granny's Mettle
The only place where you can find beginning to start at end is during a typical desktop publishing project. As one designer would relate, for all practical purposes, process of culling information starts at end in printing process.These are technical aspects of design for desktop publishing. Let's remember and review them: Step 1 > Gather information from printer. This part of process is even before you start composing your document file. You have to understand and consider how your commercial printer will reproduce your file. There are different strokes for different folks. Different presses have different production requirements, and each company has its own way of doing things. It doesn't matter if your printer is a service bureau or not. The issues that you have to consider are reproducing color, screen frequency and angle, type of output, and scanning photographs. It is best to ask your commercial printer on these so that you could already tailor your document file according to specifications of printer and avoid costly errors later on. Step 2 > Get information from your service bureau. You need to combine requirements of both your printer and your service bureau. After knowing what your printer needs, nest step is to gather information from firm that will output your file on a high-resolution imagesetter. Information you need to find out are: platform and software support, equipment profile, font availability, compatible characters, program files versus printer files, linking versus embedding graphics, scanning photographs, resolution, color trapping, maximum dimensions, and assigning responsibility.
| | Must Have Gadgets For Notebook Owners (Part 2 of 2)Written by Notebook Computer Infocenter
An Optical MouseNotebooks are normally equipped with touch pads which can be awkward. There's no substitute for mouse. Notebooks are predominantly used on a static, flat surface. With wireless broadband hotspots mushrooming all over nation's transit locations, table tops have become as much mobile computing desktops as surfaces on which lattes sit. The touch pads on notebooks are also rather vulnerable to damage by static electricity, which is a common occurrence in aircraft cabins, carpeted airport lounges and offices and will become a big problem when you’re on road and lose function of your primary pointing device. A good optical mouse - wired or wireless - must be able to track movement on varying tabletop surfaces. Optical mice traditionally had problems with glossy, transparent, or light-colored surfaces, but technology has advanced to a level that these problems are almost non-existent. Although wireless mice are trend these days, stick to a wired optical mouse by virtue that it does not require additional power or equipment to operate; as in batteries or receivers for wireless ones. You don't need extra equipment in your already-overloaded and heavy notebook bag! A Multi-Device Charger/Power Adapter Notebooks do come with their own AC-to-DC power adapters, but notebook owners typically carry a cell phone, PDA and digital camera in addition to notebook. It’s almost impossible to carry charging devices of all these things. Do yourself a favor by getting a multi-device charging/power adapter. Some of them even have capability to simultaneously charge and power an additional gadget or two, giving you an extra benefit of keeping your most-used gadgets well charged up for action.
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