Where we left off: “Wouldn’t it be better to help those poor authors struggling to turn a word processor into a layout program?” I wondered. “Isn’t there some way I could help them create books more easily, ones that didn’t make people cringe, that...
It must have started even before the era of print on demand. It probably had its roots in the fabled past called the “Desktop Publishing Revolution.” Authors, sensing the freedom that would be theirs in just a few years, started to gravitate to the joys of...
Most self-publishers are concerned with book design for a few months during the production of their book. Book design is a specialty within the field of graphic design, in the same way that packaging design, or the design of signs are specialties. What this means is...
Hi, my name is Joel, and I’m an addict. Like a lot of you, my graphic design addiction started innocently enough. It was long ago, in a different and simpler time. There I was, designing brochures and advertisements, keeping the waxer hot and the t-squares lined...
Maybe you already know how to make a PDF book from your word processor. But that version likely won’t look a whole lot like the finished, printed book. The PDF version of your book has become a key component in the entire book production workflow. At different...