Daily Dose of DTP: 2. Paging All Designers

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Daily Dose of DTP 2. Paging All Designers From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing It's a verb. It's a noun. It's what we do and what is created when doing desktop publishing. Today we're exploring the multiple meanings of page layout -- the heart of desktop publishing. Some business people consider a business plan an essential component of doing business. It gives them direction and focus. In desktop publishing we need a plan as well. Our page layout is that plan. It shows us where things go and how it all fits together. As with business plans, our page layout may change over time. We'll move things around, add new pieces, take parts away depending on what we need to accomplish. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorial s (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Today's Definition Page Layout It also goes by names like page composition and document design. It's at the heart of desktop publishing but it was around long before desktop publishing existed. Today's Trivia Pasting Without Sticky Fingers Many page layout programs use a pasteboard analogy. Your page sits in the middle of the pasteboard. You can move blocks of text and images off the page and leave them sitting on the pasteboard. You can pan or zoom out to view what's on the pasteboard. It's a convenient holding area while playing with your design and it's one way that desktop publishing software differs from word processing software. Q&A What is a Text Frame and How is it Used in DTP? All objects placed on the page or the pasteboard in a desktop publishing software application have a sometimes invisible bounding box or frame around the object - the name used by the software application may vary... Learn more. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement