Online Reference
To help you with other aspects of design and printing, we have assembled a list of sites that offer helpful information explaining important design and printing terms and processes.
About.com offers a comprehensive section covering a wide range of topics associated with desktop publishing, printing, prepress and file preparation, some software packages and more.
Topics include:
- Prepress
- Preflight checks
- Proofs
- PDFs
- Papers
- Color
- Folding
To get started, go to desktoppub.about.com.
About.com also offers tutorials for the following software:
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe PageMaker
- CorelDraw
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Word
- QuarkXPress
To access the tutorials, go to: desktoppub.about.com/cs/softwaretutorials.
For articles about a variety of commercial printing subjects, such as paper, prepress, proofing and file preparation, go to www.printingindustry.com.
Learn more about color, color matching, color separations, RGB and CMYK at 80211-planet.webopedia.com /TERM/C/CMYK
Many software manufacturers produce useful magazines and newsletters chock full of practical tips for their software products and many of these can be accessed online. For information about Adobe products, check out Adobe Magazine. You have to subscribe for the current editions, but you can access their article archives for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/
adobemag/pastissues.html.
