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Real World Adobe InDesign CS3
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Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner
October 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
912 pages
22h 40m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 4. Type

Ole’s sordid tale: “Late night. The pale glow from the monochrome monitor of my Compugraphic phototypesetter. The smell of the office standard ‘French Vanilla’ coffee—warming, now, for several hours and resembling nothing so much as battery acid. The gentle snoring of one of the staff writers, who is curled up in the warmth of the unit that holds the spinning filmstrips containing the fonts I’m using to set his story.

“These are the things I think of when I hear the word ‘typesetting’—they’re memories from my job at Seattle’s free rock and roll newspaper The Rocket, circa 1982. Desktop publishing didn’t exist yet, and digital (as opposed to photo) typesetting systems—with their WYSIWYG displays—were rare. The codes and characters ...

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