Desktop Publishing

Aldus Corp. introduced PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh computer in 1985, and the application revolutionized publishing. After hot-lead type, large computers printed the text for newspapers on...

You can publish anything you do in InDesign or QuarkXPress (QXP) as a website graphic or page, or export it as a portable document file (PDF) for distribution electronically. You can print and...

A logo is a graphic design representing a company, product, rock band or other entity. A well-designed logo is eye-catching and memorable. Think of the McDonald's golden arches logo or the...

The horror genre earns the entertainment industry millions of dollars a year in revenue. Fans of the genre flock to movie theaters to see the latest horror flicks, they rent horror DVDs, buy their...

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editing program. Vector graphics are images created by a series of points and lines rather than individual pixels you see in rasterized or bitmap graphics....

Bake sales are a great way to raise money for your favorite cause. You can have one for a club or organization, a school event or trip, for a specific person or your local church. In order for it...

Brochures are valuable tools for advertising and promotion. They use a combination of graphics and text to describe a product or event, usually for the purpose of selling something. Some types of...

Brochure designers are highly sought after in the world of graphics design. You don’t need a college degree to become a brochure designer, just the knowledge and tools to get started. It’s...

Brochures are utilized for a number of reasons. Businesses make brochures to advertise products, services, specials, or an event such as an open house. A brochure may also be used to get the word...

Ask any graphic artist what computer platform they prefer working on, and the majority of them will say Mac. Making a flier on a Mac is simple, mostly because the required software is...

Postcards can be an important and versatile marketing tool. They can be used in a number of ways. They can announce a move from one location to another, let customers in on an upcoming special,...

Flyers can be used for a myriad of reasons in business. Use them to call attention to the business when it is new or when it is running a special. Use flyers to draw attention to an event or a...

Many small businesses simply can't afford to hire expensive marketing and advertising companies to help them design and produce their marketing materials. However, with a little bit of knowledge,...

I like to spice up my documents with backgrounds and ideas from various sources. I use Microsoft Publisher to incorporate photos and various forms and documents. But when I need to share them...

Each graphic or block of text in a Microsoft Publisher document is a layer within that document. You can choose to order these layers so certain graphics or blocks of text are behind or in front...

Microsoft Publisher allows you to create your own, quality publications. But sometimes, when you are working on an uncompleted draft, you need to do a lot of printing for editing and previewing...

After creating a wonderful piece of graphics, it is disheartening to have the size be too large to email. There are easy steps to minimize file size without compromising quality.

An attractive graphic can draw a great deal of attention to a product or business. Anyone with a small, Internet-based business can enjoy the benefits of professional-looking, designed graphics....

Webpage design is easier than you would think; however, first time web authors may find designing a webpage to be a daunting task. Fortunately, with the help of software and a little bit of...

Grouping items, such as a graphic and an article in a newsletter, allows you to reposition the entire piece in one step without displacing its components. These instructions are for QuarkXpress...

One of PageMaker's many enhanced features is the Rotate tool, which lets you rotate text and graphics on the page for greater design capability. Both PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 include this feature.

Sometimes it's easier to move separate objects on a page - a picture and a text caption, for example - when the application views them as one object. This is called grouping. You can easily group...

PageMaker makes it easy to insert graphics (drawings, clip art, and photographs) into PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 documents. Graphics enhance the design of a document's pages and also can make complex...

PageMaker 6.5 makes it easy to move text and graphics from one PageMaker file to another while retaining the original file's integrity.