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Tag: design tips

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #6

Posted on August 30, 2011 by ctan / 3 Comments

DIGITAL BOOKS VERSUS PRINT BOOKS All the previous posts in this series have been about producing printed books, especially trade paperbacks. But now let’s...

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #5

Posted on August 29, 2011 by ctan / 0 Comment

Before I get to today’s topic, I just found out that John D. Berry’s ebooks on type and design are free for download: Dot-Font: Talking about Fonts ...

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #4

Posted on August 27, 2011 by ctan / 1 Comment

Let’s start with hyphenation today. USE HYPHENATION: DON’T AVOID IT I see a lot of small press books where they try to solve the problem of a word p...

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #3

Posted on August 26, 2011 by ctan / 0 Comment

Ok, now we get to the real stuff that no one tells you. Let’s say you’re using Quark or InDesign, you’ve flowed all the text of your novel or ...

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #2

Posted on August 25, 2011 by ctan / 7 Comments

Okay, so you’ve decided you’re going to design and typeset your own book. The first thing to note is that I have never come up with a way around nee...

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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers

Posted on August 24, 2011 by ctan / 2 Comments

Self-publishing and niche press publishing is going through an explosion right now, thanks to the ease with which modern tech lets us produce digital books and ...

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