#14862
PDF Security, Part V: Adding Passwords 
In this article, you'll add protection to your file so that no one can change its contents and so that unauthorized users can't open, use, or print the file.
PDFzone (2006). Design>Publishing>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#10828
Fixes and workarounds for Acrobat.
#22550
Personalized Color Communications
Four firms discuss the benefits of color variable data printing, such as creating marketing campaigns and experiencing up to a 40 percent rate of return.
Miley, Michael. PennWell (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Color
#14163
Photoshop 911 FAQ and Short Tips
Short, frequently asked questions from the PS 911 call records, including: Vignetting, Color from B&W, Reduced files become Jagged, End of file Errors, Convert Layer to Grayscale, Lost Clone Tool, and others.
Photoshop Tips and Tricks (2002). Design>Publishing>Graphic Design>Adobe Photoshop
#10822
A forum where Acrobat users can help each other get the best out of the product.
#22570
Polyester Plates Earn a Second Look
Yes, the 'poor man's CTP' still suffers from some early shortcomings, but four-color work on four-up equipment is becoming a short-run mainstay.
Toth, Debora. Graphic Arts Monthly (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Printing
#18344
Preflight Publications for Perfect Printing
Want to make friends with your service bureau and printer? Just bring them perfect files every time. Use the Save for Service Provider plug-in built into Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 , and you’ll never have to worry about last-minute calls from your service bureau or printer again. Here’s an example of how you can use this plug-in.
Adobe (2003). Design>Publishing>Document Design>Adobe PageMaker
#22583
Between 23 and 30 percent of all files submitted for print are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), a figure that's likely to grow.
Miley, Michael. PennWell (2003). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat
#10864
Printers' Tips to Desktop Publishers
This collection is a compilation of tips from many sources. As a sales rep for a commercial printer (Altman Printing Company), I have personally experienced most of these situations. If I had had something like this to give to each of my clients in the beginning, it sure would have made everyone's life a little easier!! Some of the tips below should be added to the back of your DTP Bible! If you don't follow some basic rules -- sooner or later you will realize: just because it comes up on your screen real pretty, and it prints to your laser printer just fine --- doesn't always mean that it is going to output correctly from a high-resolution imagesetter or print the same way!!
Foster, Julian A., Jr. Teleplex. Design>Publishing>Document Design>Printing
#22538
PDF is becoming the de facto standard for not only viewing documents onscreen but also for printing them on paper. Acrobat 6 Professional includes better printing and prepress tools than ever before. PDF pundit Ted Padova shows you how they work.
Padova, Ted. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat
#25154
Printing Primer for Graphic Designers
Originally published in 1989, this printing primer for digital artists has been updated and annotated for today's digital desktop publisher.
Design, Typography and Graphics (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress
#22701
PRISM: Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata
PRISM is an extensible XML metadata standard for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content from magazines, news, catalogs, books and mainstream journals.
#18831
Publish and Sell Your Book in Hypertext
Anyone who would like to publish a book should consider using Windows™ hypertext Help. Publishing in hypertext can help authors fulfill their creative urge. Conventional publishing methods can obstruct good writers from contributing to their respective field of interest. It is hard to get a book proposal accepted today. Competition is fierce, and writers must follow accepted protocols to have ideas considered. There is potential for writers who develop and produce Windows online Help systems. They are already 'experts' in a newly emerging technology. Using the Windows hypertext medium, writers can publish and sell their ideas without the hassles of the publishing industry.
Davis, Douglas W. STC Proceedings (1994). Design>Publishing>Online>Hypertext
#25885
Publish or Perish: Create an Out-of-the-Ordinary Booklet
Though form and function does not necessarily improve the content of your message it can improve the ease with which it is accessed--and design can effect how well it is understood.
Chuck Green. Ideabook.com (2005). Design>Publishing>Usability
#23092
Saving Paper: —It's Like Printing Money
Wofford demonstrates several methods for saving paper that can help technical communicators cut the costs of paper usage.
Wofford, Tracey Norden. Intercom (2004). Design>Publishing>Online
#18343
Simplify Your Life With Templates
Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 includes more than 300 templates. Just open the Templates palette, select a category, choose a template, replace the placeholders with your content, and you’re done. You’ll get professional-looking results every time without fussing over special layouts or worrying about choosing appropriate fonts.
Adobe (2003). Design>Publishing>Document Design>Adobe PageMaker
#25059
Small Scale, Big Impact: Creating an Employee Newsletter
Every few weeks we receive a flyer about a 'seminar' or a 'workshop' on newsletters -- now to write them, how to design them, how to produce them, how to improve them. Although we haven’t actually attended any of these seminars, they travel to many major cities, and the list of topics covered and the testimonials printed in the flyers are impressive. This phenomenon of the successful traveling newsletter seminar suggests that A) lots of people (hence organizations) are interested in creating or improving newsletters, and B) there’s lots to be learned about newsletters.
Anderson, Pamela A., Sally Nereson, and Dorothy J. Wiemann. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Document Design>Publishing>Newsletters
#22593
Acrobat's annotation tools are valuable for marking-up and commenting on design layouts and digital comps no matter where your client is located. Acrobat 6.0 goes a step further by integrating e-mail comment tracking for more efficient review cycles. Learn how to tap into these powerful features.
Knowlton, Gray. Creative Pro (2003). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Workflow
#19468
Implementing structured authoring with XML allows organizations to create better content. The addition of hierarchy and metadata to content improves reuse and content management. These benefits, however, must be weighed against the time and money required to implement a structured authoring approach. The business case is compelling for larger writing organizations; they will be the first to adopt structured authoring. Over time, improvements in available tools will reduce the cost of implementing structured authoring and make it affordable for smaller organizations.
O'Keefe, Sarah S. Scriptorium (2002). Design>Publishing>Information Design>XML
#22546
Everyone who has worked with color proofs knows that proofing systems are fundamentally flawed. A color proofer represents the output of the offset press.
PrintMedia (2004). Design>Publishing>Prepress
#26142
What Shall We Do With the Publications?
Publications pages are often among the most popular pages on web sites, particularly government sites. But this handy convention has turned into a problem.
McAlpine, Rachel. Quality Web Content (2004). Articles>Web Design>Publishing>Online
#19665
'Blogs,' or Web logs, are the newest form of one-way and interactive online communication to hit the Internet. Most people would agree that a 'blog' is a regularly updated set of Web pages with a chronological set of thoughts and links. Starting around 1999, the blog movement has gained so much momentum that hundreds of thousands of Web logs and many different styles of blog now exist.
Archee, Raymond K. Intercom (2003). Articles>Web Design>Publishing>Blogging
#22746
After spending a week of toil and labor in the Semantic Web mines, I've returned to the surface, to the sweetness and light of the XML developer community. And what do I find but a crisis about the XML part of the technical book publishing industry, as well as a monster thread about character entity names.
Clark, Kendall Grant. XML.com (2003). Articles>Publishing>Information Design>XML
#32344
Mediatization or Mediation? Alternative Understandings of the Emergent Space of Digital Storytelling 
This article reviews the social potential of digital storytelling, and in particular its potential to contribute to the strengthening of democracy. Through answering this question, it seeks to test out the relative strengths and weaknesses of two competing concepts for grasping the wider consequences of media for the social world: the concept of mediatization and the concept of mediation. It is argued that mediatization (developed, for example, by Stig Hjarvard and Winfried Schulz) is stronger at addressing aspects of media textuality, suggesting that a unitary media-based logic is at work. In spite of its apparent vagueness, mediation (developed in particular by Roger Silverstone) provides more flexibility for thinking about the open-ended and dialectical social transformations which, as with the printed book, may come in time to be articulated with the new form of digital storytelling.
Couldry, Nick. New Media and Society (2008). Articles>Web Design>Publishing>Online
#33400
What Do Movable Type and XML Have in Common?
Compares Gutenberg's invention of the movable type to the creation of XML. But where movable type changed the “economics of a mechanical process,” XML changed the “economics of content authoring, formatting, and customization.”
O'Keefe, Sarah S. Intercom (2008). Articles>Information Design>Publishing>XML
