...for all Your Desktop Publishing Needs...  Page Layout  The process of taking unformatted text and/or graphics and modifying them to produce pages that are ready to send to a printer  Your Type Too can handle page layout projects as small and simple as a business card or as large as a book containing hundreds of pages. Sizes can vary from business cards, through letter, legal, tabloid and custom sizes (for special projects such as boxes, catalogs, and promotional pieces. These pieces can be almost any size, cost being the only consideration).  Corel Ventura (formerly Ventura Publisher) is the program of choice for top quality desktop publishing work at Your Type Too. Ventura offers maximum typographic control and accuracy along with easy production of tables of contents, indexes and footnotes.  There is no better program for handling long structured documents. It allows the regeneration of tables of contents, indexes, lists of tables and figures, auto-numbering of hierarchical paragraphs and much more with simplicity, accuracy and speed.  Corel Draw is not intended for page layout projects although it suffices for documents of one or two pages. The main purpose of Draw is that of creating or modifying vector graphics as well as importing and working with bitmap graphics. It can therefore be used to create, modify or reproduce existing graphics. Its single page layout capabilities are excellent.

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Pagemaker 6.5 is also useful for page layout, in particular short documents. Documents being transferred from the Macintosh to the PC and vice-versa will reatin most of their formatting in Pagemaker. The remaining problems are often easily corrected.  Microsoft Word handles both search-and-replace and editing with ease. Although it can also be used for page layout (and is), it is not recommended. Corporate adoption has propelled Word into an area which it only just. Complex documents can develop problems. Many facilities required in creating a page layout are not available.  If editing of the document by the client is important, in view of it's widespread adoption, then Word may be the choice to make.     Each page layout project will go through the following steps: Begin with a word processor or text file  Create a layout template       The desktop publisher, with the client's input, creates a suitable  layout for the project in hand. This process can take from a few minutes  to a number of hours, depending on complexity  Format the text  Add the graphics  Print an editor's proof. The editor then proofs and correct  Double check layout and correct as necessary  Second round edits. Proof and edit a second time  Prepare final proof  Produce camera ready art or suitable disk files for the printer.  Home  Page  Top of File