Dates:
29-30 September 2008 (a two-day course)
Price:
£619+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
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This course is all about understanding the impact of different software on digital files. You’ll get an in-depth view of digital workflow, learn how to troubleshoot problems and how to specify requirements for freelance copy-editors and designers.
You’ll learn about image creation, page layout and pre-press files and be better able to manage the complex flow of files and responsibilities. Using the latest software, you’ll learn:
- how electronic manuscripts affect the design and typography of text in QuarkXPress or InDesign
- how images are manipulated in Photoshop to ensure they are correctly presented in the page layout software
- how to check page layout files from designers.
Practical examples will be used to illustrate common problems and their solutions.
Programme
- Text: Microsoft Word
- Characters, glyphs and fonts in the manuscript
- Authors’ common errors and how to correct them
- Tables
- File naming and storage
- Styles and formatting
- Specifying author’s delivery of electronic files
- Specifying and carrying out copy-editing
- Images: Adobe Photoshop
- Resolution for colour and black and white images
- Colour modes and why and when to select them
- File formats what they mean, what to avoid and when to use which format
- Changing size of images
- Specifying image requirements
- Creating simple clipping paths
- Page layout: QuarkXPress/InDesign
- How page layout software imports and works with (a) text and (b) images
- Fonts in page layout files
- Colour in images created in page layout programmes
- Checking received files
- Collect for output and reports
- Pre-flighting and converting to PDF
- Pre-press: Adobe Acrobat
- Checking PDF files
- Amending PDF files
- Using PDF files for proofing
- Using Word 2003 for proofing
Your tutor
Sally Hughes is a freelance trainer and consultant who specialises in DTP applications, typography and document design. She works with both Mac and PC platforms and has authored a report on the use of IT in editorial practice. Sally also teaches on the PTC’s InDesign and Acrobat courses, as well as being a lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.
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Dates: 29-30 September 2008
Price: £619+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).
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