Digital Workflow: Making the Most of the Software
Dates:
5-6 May & 20-21 September 2010 (a two-day course)
Please contact us for dates or complete the booking form below to indicate your interest.
Price:
£490+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
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Mistakes can be costly and cause severe delays to a project. This course aims to minimise such problems. Practical examples will be used throughout to illustrate common problems and their solutions.
At each point in the pre-publication process it is important to understand how the software used affects the electronic file and interacts with other software packages used. Text may be delivered by an author in a word processing file, and formatting embedded in this file could cause problems when importing into a page layout package or when the file is converted to PDF.
Similarly, digital images need to have the correct format, size, resolution, colour models and so on, in order to be used effectively in the final layout. These and many other examples are covered in-depth during this course.
In addition to a clear understanding of digital workflow, you will learn how to troubleshoot problems and how to specify requirements for freelancers.
Programme
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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 authors' 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 the size of images
- Specifying image requirements
- Creating simple clipping paths
- Page layout: QuarkXPress/InDesign
- How page layout software imports and works with text and 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 specialising in design and layout software, typography and document design. She has authored a report on the use of information technology in editorial practice and written a book 'Design and Typography in Easy Steps'.
Sally maintains close links with the publishing industry and provides in-house training to companies such as Oxford and Cambridge University presses, Lion Hudson plc and Elsevier. She holds a part time appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Department of 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: 5-6 May & 20-21 September 2010
Price: £490+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
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