Acknowledgements. Overview. Meet the bits & Bytes Players. DTP 101 - THE BIG PICTURE. 1. Pressing Problems. The Printing Challenge. Pressing problems of putting ink on paper.

The basic challenge of printing. New language skills eI New technical challenges. Image reproduction challenges. Text and line art. Tonal images. The challenge of color. Changing printing technologies. Reduce & simplify.

Making RIP-ready files. 2. Terms Of Endearment. Electronic Publishing Terms. Half the battle. 3. Peaceful Coexistence. Electronic Publishing Culture.

Effect of the postscript revolution. File preparation: whose responsibility? Partnering. Convergent technologies. 4. Electronic Publishing Systems. DTP History. Computers revealed: parts and functions. Motherboard (green).

RAM (Random Access Memory). Storage memory (large). Storage memory (small). Expansion slot. CPU (Central Processing Unit). Video board. SCSI, printer, and modem ports. Keyboard, mouse, digitizing tablet.

Electronic components publishing & systems capabilities. Electronic Publishing Systems Diagram. Types of Computer Systems. Central computers. Mainframes. Desktop computers. Macintosh. PCs (personal computers).

Peripheral devices and software. Servers. Others. Silicon Graphics and Suns. Clones. What to buy? 5. Software. Operating Systems and Applications.

Types of software. Operating systems. Desktop views. Icons. Menus. Windows. Location windows. Document windows.

Information and dialog boxes. Applications. Document creation. Cross-platform Acrobat PDF. Resources. Utilities. Minimizing your system. DTP 201 - FILE FUNDAMENTALS.

6. bits & Bytes. Two ways to view the world. Analog vs. digital devices & data. Basic computer language. Graphic formats. Text formats.

Computerese Defined. The basics of bits, Bytes, & ASCII. bit & Bytes. ASCII. ASCII code character translations. Examples of ASCII code word translations. 7. Basic Computer Skills & Habits.

Basic Computer Skills. Four basic skills. Point. Point and single click. Point and double click. Point click, hold, & drag. Advanced skills. Back to the keyboard.

Keyboard position. Think layers. Window layers. Page element layers. Keep organized. System files. Application files. Document files.

Font files. Utility files. Safety habits. Saving. Backup and archiving. Viruses. Performance tips. Be a minimalist.

Keep file sizes small. Never work off of floppies. Archiving. Virtual memory or scratch disk. Preference files. 8. Resolving Resolution. What is resolution? Resolution vs.

file size. Dots, spots, & pixels. Resolution Comparison. Multibit contone images. Resolution Glossary. Digital computer language. File size terminology. Scan or input resolution vs.

file size. Output or print resolution. Halftone dots. Halftoning. where it occurs. DPI vs. LPI vs. shades of gray.

Optical resolution vs. interpolation. A final word about file sizes. A final resolution. 9. Grappling With Graphics. Types of graphic files. Bitmap/raster vs.

outline/vector images. Compound images. Graphic file formats. Graphic file types. File format vs. file size. Cross platform file exchange. Pixel depth.

Working with graphics. Bitmapped TIFF graphics. Vector EPS graphics. Ou.