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From: jchester@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Henry S. Horn)
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Subject: Re:  References on book binding, design, and fonts
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Date: 20 Jun 88 16:22:26 GMT
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A good place to start might be "Graphic Design for the Electronic Age"
by Jan V. White.  It was just published, and in my mind at least, strikes
a nice balance between the out of date books that show you photos of 
typesetters with amazing 32 character displays and "gee whiz" desktop
publishing books written by people with a shaky grasp on design fundamentals.
 
It, of course, is not perfect.  At one point it's stated firmly that the
ability to print on a laser printer in the four possible orientations
(parallel to the edge of the page) requires four sets of font pixel files.
So much for PostScript and other high level PDLs.  Anyway, except for printers
that do both sides of the page in one pass, worrying about four orientations
is meaningless.  :-)
 
--Jon Radel
jonradel@icecream.princeton.edu

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