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Article: Desktop Publishing Bible.
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* 1/2 Stockford, James., ed. Desktop
Publishing Bible.Indianapolis,IN:
Howard W. Sams & Company,
1987. 448pp.
This compendium of 26 essays ostensibly on the subject of desktop publishing (dtp), ultimately leaves the reader, who is sincerely interested in the subject, hungering for something more substantial. It provides a better understanding of traditional publishing practices and techniques than is really necessary to use dtp effectively, and has relatively little that is specific to dtp per se.
Arguably, dtp is a broad subject that embodies both technical and creative specialities - art layout and design, ...