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TC 424: The Computer in TC (Winter 2008)

TC 424: The Computer in TC (Winter 2008). Week 6 : Continuing with Adobe InDesign. What will we cover today?. Re-cap Week 5 issues with importing content into InDesign Discussion of graphics formats, and the recommended use of each Some advanced formatting techniques Generating a PDF

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TC 424: The Computer in TC (Winter 2008)

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  1. TC 424: The Computer in TC(Winter 2008) Week 6: Continuing with Adobe InDesign

  2. What will we cover today? Re-cap Week 5 issues with importing content into InDesign Discussion of graphics formats, and the recommended use of each Some advanced formatting techniques Generating a PDF Backing your content out to MSFT Word and RTF More than you ever wanted to know…

  3. So, what happened last week with importing my content into InDesign anyway? A few of you encountered C++ runtime errors What caused it, and how do you troubleshoot things like this? Figures didn’t import via the RTF optimally, which required relinking and resizing of the graphics, as well as a paragraph style adjustment to the leading What caused this to happen, and how can I avoid in the future? General sense of confusion?

  4. Graphics; making sense of the alphabet soup GIF; graphics interchange format. Developed by CompuServe as a small byte count graphics format. The only one to support transparencies in web-presentation until the use of PNG’s in the late 1990’s. JPG (also JPEG); joint graphics experts group. Created as an alternative to the GIF format to render more image clarity within a compressed file. However, the compression comes at the cost of image clarity. Cannot include transparency. PNG; portable network graphics. An improvement on the JPG image, which utilizes lossless image compression, and may include transparencies as with a GIF file. TIFF (also TIF); tagged image file format. Originally created by Aldus, and later acquired by Adobe. Developed for use as a file format for use in desktop publishing applications. Retains more image resolution that PNG files, but cannot include line art. EPS (also EPSF); encapsulated PostScript. A self-contained, reasonably predictable PostScript document that describes an image or drawing, that can be placed within another PostScript document. This is the only format of the five presented here that may contained vector (bezier curve) image data as well as rastar (pixel-based) image data.

  5. Graphics; what kind should I be using? Ask your production staff My recommendations; Print-resolution graphics; EPS If image compression is required (though I can’t think why this would be necessary) high-resolution TIF files would be acceptable (but not in graphics that contain text that must remain clear and legible). Web/online ready graphics (in order of preference); PNG, JPG, GIF

  6. Let’s talk formatting Paragraph styles palette Character styles palette Object styles palette Master pages

  7. Creating a PDF What is a PDF, and why do we use it? Portable Document Format Cross-platform compatibility Broad install-base Standard for print publishing, as well as having good online interactive capabilities and file compression WYSIWYG

  8. Repurposing your InDesign content in a word processor Export file as RTF Open in Word

  9. More than you ever wanted to know… • The first true keyboard-operated typesetting machine was invented by German-born immigrant, Ottmer Mergentheler, in 1886 • The company Mergentheler wouldlater found—Mergentheler LinotypeCompany—reportedly got its namewhen Mergentheler was demonstratinghis machine to New York Tribuneeditor, Whitelaw Reid. Upon asuccessful demonstration byMergentheler, Reid is said to haveexclaimed, “Ottmar, you’ve set aline o’ type!”

  10. What did we cover today? Why things worked out somewhat less than ideally last week Graphics formats Formatting palettes and master pages Saving a PDF and exporting an RTF from InDesign Introduced Ottmar Mergentheler and the Linotype machine—the greatest invention sliced cheese.

  11. What we’ll cover next week Alex?...

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