Class#: Day, Date Week
9: Tuesday, June 10 5
AM PM First come first serve -- run your ideas by me. When you get approval on one, start setting up your document.
Page Layout: Units of measurement, margins, facing pages
Lab: Setting up a book document.
Under "edit>preferences" is where you choose your units of measurement. Do this before you create your new document.
Check the "facing pages" box, and set your inside (spine) and outside (the other edge) margins.
AM PM Lab: Book
Collect for output
Demo: Page layout programs have a very useful utility that collects all of your image files and fonts in one place so that you can make sure you get them all on to a disc for a service provider. Quark "collects for output." InDesign calls it by the industry terms "preflight" and "package." Pagemaker calls it "save for service provider" and it is under the Utilities menu instead of the file menu.
Uunderstand the concept, and recognize the terms, so you can find the correct command and benifit from the utility when the time comes.
Homework: Go to a bookstore with a wide selection of software manuals (Borders, B&N, BAM) and look for answers to the "general questions" or "specific queries" you have about the software that we have been using. Look for the same answer from several different publishers -- see which books "speak" to you.
Note: If you don't have any "questions," look up the difference in the way Quark and InDesign handle paragraph flow; a.k.a. the linking and unlinking of text boxes.
1. Write up a short list of the questions you had (even if you didn't have them until you started reading the book,) and the answers you found (short.)
2. Write down bibliographic information for each answer you get.
3. Indicate your favorite manual for each software on the cover page of your assignment
Design Software: Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, Quark XPress4.1, In Design 2.0
Operating System: Mac OS9, PC Windows 2000