This book shows you how you can create your own brochures, books and documents.It is a concept book written to show you how different programs could fill your specific needs.
You will get an introduction to word processing programs, fonts, file formats and the concept of WYSIWYG.
You will be shown how colour is handled by commercial printing houses. You will learn how to create portable documents which can be read on different computer operating systems and can also be used to send documents to commercial printers.
There is a general chapter called "Soup to Nuts" Publishing Programs. Then, you will then be taken on a tour of the heavyweights in software publishing and layout programs which will help you to create books, newsletters, brochures and advertising material.
Learn about some specialty programs for research papers and foreign language texts.
Find out how voice dictation software can save you countless hours and how Optical Character Recognition can help you scan and import written text on paper into your word processing documents.
Finally, there is a chapter on managing your documents.
