DTP Principles book in online reprint

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Interesting. At a glance, it looks more useful and informative than the Kiwi/Aussie $300 one I bought a year ago. Sawadee on 4/4/05 9:39AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I read this when I received it some time ago as a RiscWorld subscriber. It's a really very useful resource and I learnt a lot from it. Now that it's freely available, there shouldn't be any excuse for any RISC OS user anywhere producing bad design! flypig on 4/4/05 12:46PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

What a shame its in PDF format rather than OvPro. It is almost unreadable with our file viewer - and very slow. It does look good enough to buy - perhaps APL could bundle the OvPro file with the book so we can tinker with the DTP and practice getting it wrong! cynic on 4/4/05 1:34PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

In reply to Cynic: Copy the PDF to a RAM disc, it speed's it up greatly. IvanDobski on 4/4/05 5:36PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

That doesn't improve the font rendering though! cynic on 5/4/05 12:06PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

cynic: Select 'No type3 font' in the display menu. Grek1 on 5/4/05 6:25PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Thanks Grek1 That's much more legible! Still very slow - even from a RAM disc. Please can we have the OvPro original to download? cynic on 5/4/05 7:57PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I can't supply the original Ovation Pro document because, aside from issues of copyright, it makes use of a number of commercial fonts which I wouldn't be able to distribute with it. Anyone who downloaded the previous PDF and suffered from problems of display quality and performance, though, should visit my new page for DTP Principles, linked in the article above, and grab one of the new versions instead. The HQ version is the best for general-purpose use, whilst the LQ version is optimised for !PDF and will both look a lot better and work a lot faster than the previous release. Rule of thumb: if you use Windows, Mac OS or RiScript 5 on RISC OS, use the HQ version of the PDF. If you use RiScript 4 or !PDF on RISC OS, use the LQ version instead. RichardHallas on 22/4/05 2:37PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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