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Layout
The process of taking unformatted text
and/or graphics and modifying them to produce pages that are ready to send
to a printer
Your Type Too can handle page
layout projects as small and simple as a business card or as large as a
book containing hundreds of pages. Sizes can vary from business cards,
through letter, legal, tabloid and custom sizes (for special projects such
as boxes, catalogs, and promotional pieces. These pieces can be almost
any size, cost being the only consideration).
 Corel
Ventura (formerly Ventura Publisher) is
the program of choice for top quality desktop publishing work at Your Type
Too. Ventura offers maximum typographic control and accuracy along with
easy production of tables of contents, indexes and footnotes.
There is no better program for handling
long structured documents. It allows the regeneration of tables of contents,
indexes, lists of tables and figures, auto-numbering of hierarchical paragraphs
and much more with simplicity, accuracy and speed.
 Corel
Draw is not intended for page layout projects
although it suffices for documents of one or two pages. The main purpose
of Draw is that of creating or modifying vector graphics as well as importing
and working with bitmap graphics. It can therefore be used to create, modify
or reproduce existing graphics. Its single page layout capabilities are
excellent.
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Pagemaker 6.5 is
also useful for page layout, in particular short documents. Documents being
transferred from the Macintosh to the PC and vice-versa will reatin most
of their formatting in Pagemaker. The remaining problems are often easily
corrected.
 Microsoft
Word handles both search-and-replace and
editing with ease. Although it can also be used for page layout (and is),
it is not recommended. Corporate adoption has propelled Word into an area
which it only just. Complex documents can develop problems. Many facilities
required in creating a page layout are not available.
If editing of the document by the client
is important, in view of it's widespread adoption, then Word may be the
choice to make.
Each page layout project will
go through the following steps:
Begin with a word processor or text file
Create a layout template
The desktop publisher,
with the client's input, creates a suitable
layout for the project in hand. This process
can take from a few minutes
to a number of hours, depending on complexity
Format the text
Add the graphics
Print an editor's proof. The editor then proofs and
correct
Double check layout and correct as necessary
Second round edits. Proof and edit a second time
Prepare final proof
Produce camera ready art or suitable disk files for
the printer.
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