Budget DTP
on RISC OS
Budget DTP on RISC OS
by Roger Amos
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This book was originally published by Dabs Press in 1992 as 'Budget DTP on the Acorn Archimedes and A3000' and is reproduced here with their permission. This HTML version is Copyright © Alligata Media 2006. All rights reserved. We have changed the title of the book as it applies to all computers running RISC OS not just the early ARM2 machines.
Contents
1: Introduction
2: What is DTP?
A Short History of Mechanised Writing
The Typewriter
The Wordprocessor
Desktop Publishing
3 : Hardware and Software Needed and Recommended
Outline Fonts
Manipulating Outline Fonts
4 : A Quick Taste
5 : !Draw In Depth
Objects
The Main Menu
Misc
Save
Style
Enter
Select
Zoom
Grid
Misc Menu
Info
New view
Paper limits
Print
The Toolbox
Select Mode
The Four Types of 'Object'
1. Path Objects
Text Handling in !Draw
2. Text Objects
3. Text area objects
4. Sprites
6 : Creating the text
The Header and \ Commands
\! Version line
\A Alignment
\B Set background colour
\C Set text colour
\D Set number of columns or boxes
\F Define font
\L Set line spacing
\M Set margins
\P Set paragraph spacing
\U Underline
\V Vertical move
\<CR> Start new line
\- Soft hyphen
\ [font number] Change font
\\ Insert \ character
\; Comment
Paragraphs and <CR> Characters
7 : The Font System
Outline Fonts and Bitmap Fonts.
Anti-aliasing
Outline Fonts
How Outline Fonts are Organised
Renaming Fonts
Handling Large Collections of Fonts
Varieties of Typeface
The Character Set
8: Page Layout
Multi-Page Documents
Page Layouts
Columns
Leading
Style sheets
How To Create Some Special Effects
Tables
Drawings
Drop shadows
Pie charts
Bar charts
Drop capitals
Paragraph indents
Hanging indents
Vertical, slanted, inverted and mirror-image print
Reversed text
9 : Sprites, !Paint and Clip Art
Using Sprites in !Draw
Sources of sprites
Scanners and Video Digitisers
Clip Art
Sprite attributes and sprite files
Using !Paint
Get screen area
Editing existing sprites and creating new ones
The Sprite File Menu
The Sprite Menu
The "Paint" Menu
The "Edit" Menu
10: Understanding Printers
9-pin Dot Matrix Printers
24-pin Dot Matrix Printers
Ink jet printers
Laser printers
Printer drivers
How the printer driver works
Using a "Distant Printer"
11: Reproducing Your Work
How many copies?
Photocopiers
Offset litho printing
Preparing work for photocopying or printing
Full Colour work
Spot colour
12: Trouble Shooting
Problems in !Edit and in Text File Transfer to !Dr
!Edit crashes on startup
Bad font number error
Wrong font used in text area object
Unable to load font
Line numbers in text files
Problems in !Draw
Wrong font used in text object
Text wrong shape in text object
Rules print out crooked, although straight on disp
Transferred object is missing
Scrolling and/or printing is slow
Cannot "select" an object (1)
Cannot "select" an object (2)
Cannot edit path object
Words missing
Problems with Printing
Printer delivers gobbledegook
Lines of text missing from printout
Descenders not printed
Dot matrix printout is distorted
13 : The Next Step
Full-feature DTP software
Appendix
A Glossary of DTP, Printing and Typographical Term
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