Category: Desktop Publishing

By David Sawyer McFarland

Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 deals a wealthy atmosphere for development specialist websites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, fresh HTML code, and dynamic database-driven website production instruments. It comes with every little thing other than might be crucial function of all: a published manual.
Enter Dreamweaver MX 2004: The lacking handbook, the ebook that allows either first-time and skilled internet designers to deliver lovely, interactive websites to existence. What units this re-creation aside is the crystal-clear writing, welcome humor, and particular positive aspects like these:
- stay examples. With a step by step annotated educational, readers stick with the development of a cutting-edge advertisement site, entire with Flash buttons, Cascading sort Sheets, and dynamic databases.
- methods of the exchange. The ebook is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.
- layout suggestions. Readers can create any smooth net characteristic, together with kinds, animations, pop-up home windows, and extra. This booklet enables you to comprehend which browsers, occasions, and audiences are acceptable for each.
With over 500 illustrations, a hand made index, and the readability of idea that has made bestsellers of each lacking handbook to this point, this version is the last word atlas for Dreamweaver MX 2004.

By Michael Topic

* New criteria, Schemes, Protocols* Implementation Musts * MPEG-4, MPEG-7 With unusual ability, Michael Topic's very good consultant takes you inside of latest crucial killer app. greater than simply an implementation guide-though it definitely is that, full of wanted information at the newest codecs and standards-Streaming Media Demystified bargains a whole photograph of the appliance that would quickly threaten television's dominance because the fundamental transmitter of video. you need to learn THIS booklet IF- * you must be on best of the serious program that brings seamless interactive video and audio to the net * Glitchless, seamless, and nearly easy streaming media over either cord and instant 3G sounds strong to you * you are an govt at any enterprise with a stake within the net or in broadcasting * you want to understand every thing in regards to the software that may force the good fortune or failure of broadband * you need to grasp the compression suggestions and IP trafficking tools that make streaming media move * you wish a prepared resource of information on codecs, applied sciences, and the way to lead them to paintings * you would like to preview the influence of an software anticipated for use by means of seventy five% of broadcasting and e-commerce enterprises through 2003 * You make investments funds or time in any enterprise concerned with communications, leisure, or electronic expertise * you will want a considerate, professional research of markets, audiences, appliances-who they're, what they are going to watch, and what they will watch it on * you are endlessly eager about sizzling functions within the electronic revolution In Streaming Media Demystified you discover: * content material supply suggestions * Interactive multimedia * Video and audio compression * MPEG-4 * Metadata and MPEG-7 * electronic rights administration and MPEG-21 With destiny power greater than tv, streaming video over the web is the fundamental software for broadband and 3G. This e-book takes you inside of a billion-dollar expertise.

By David D. Busch

Written from a photographer's perspective, "Digital Retouching and Compositing: Photographers' consultant" solves each snap-shooter's real-life difficulties painlessly. It distills complicated issues all the way down to a number of pages of clarification and straightforward steps so clients can fast and dramatically switch the way in which images glance. The e-book is split into 3 elements: studying the fundamentals, sensible Retouching, and Compositing Magic. each one part builds at the final in order that readers can develop into happy with making designated decisions, doing uncomplicated retouching, and adjusting tones and colours earlier than leaping into significant subject matters like retouching pix or developing lifelike composites.

By Donna L. Baker

Adobe Acrobat is without doubt one of the most generally well-known instruments for rfile administration, place of work communications, and enhanced workflow, and Acrobat eight is the main strong model but, introducing new instruments for shared reports, developing computerized kinds, license administration, extra defense, and so on. Now that PDF has turn into the ever present digital rfile structure, industries as diversified as engineering, criminal, production, and executive all depend on Acrobat to make their initiatives run smoother and extra successfully. right here to aid advisor you, Acrobat professional Donna Baker provides real-life situations so that you can practice to any state of affairs during which record regulate and administration is an argument. With functional suggestion, productiveness suggestions, and step by step instructions for utilizing the most recent Acrobat positive aspects, Acrobat eight within the workplace may also help you realize the wide functions of this “what-can’t-it-do?” software program. between different precious positive aspects, this booklet additionally • indicates you the way to exploit Acrobat in real-life occasions to enhance productiveness, rate reductions, and verbal exchange. • Covers the recent beneficial properties in Acrobat eight, together with shared reviewing, Acrobat attach (an on-line assembly room), auto-recognition shape fields, new merging and record optimizing instruments, redaction instruments. • Describes the best way to most sensible mix new and present Acrobat instruments to complete approximately any place of work verbal exchange job. • contains a significant other site at www.donnabaker.ca/downloads.html that includes resource documents for examples within the ebook, plus bonus tasks and case research chapters.

By Edward J. Cody

Speedy grasp this tremendous strong and robust enterprise intelligence device become familiar with an important, often used, and complicated good points of Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting eleven A step by step consultant choked with screenshots and transparent causes discover the positive aspects of dashboards, experiences, pivots, and charts how you can construct complex info types and queries, and the way to import exterior info set into your research intimately Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting is among the many items within the Oracle firm functionality administration software program suite, an industry-leading company intelligence software program package deal. the first concentration of the Interactive Reporting product is to supply powerful relational querying and knowledge research functions. It additionally presents the aptitude to disseminate info all through an firm. there's a very steep studying curve for many clients of this software. This booklet examines the facility of the Interactive Reporting internet purchaser software program, targeting the most important positive factors of every component to the product. The author's event in constructing and helping Interactive Reporting clients is especially good documented during this booklet. The aim is to teach you on each priceless function of the product, permitting you to collect details from numerous assets and technique it to provide significant effects that assist you to identify difficulties and learn tendencies helpful for enterprise judgements. The publication starts off with a brief advent to the product interface and the EPM Workspace, with rationalization of uploading and provisioning. It then takes you thru every one part from construction a question and information version to development graphical screens of the information in a logical series. The document sections and interactive dashboards also are mentioned at size. The publication additionally covers complex beneficial properties of the product and offers you with the data essential to construct the basis for growing advanced queries and computations utilizing the product. Demonstrates the foremost functionalities of the Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting software program with an in depth view of every part and an advent to dashboard layout What you are going to examine from this booklet Navigate the Workspace with examples for uploading and provisioning Interactive Reporting records learn how to construct facts types and queries, and import exterior information achieve in-depth knowing of leveraging user-defined SQL within the product learn how to learn information within the consequence, desk, and Pivot sections discover different chart kinds and techniques for including chart content material construct document sections together with info from a number of queries and various charts and pivots Create interactive dashboards and configure interactive elements strategy it is a hands-on walkthrough, from amassing info to making a report back to the presentation sections. It allows you to get acquainted with the software program and provides an in-depth realizing of the way to simply unharness the robust performance of the software program. accordingly it is possible for you to to exploit the strong functionalities of Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting eleven to force very important enterprise judgements. the fashion of the publication lets you use it as a consultant to stroll via each one bankruptcy or as reference fabric if you paintings with the software program. Who this ebook is written for This ebook is for all Oracle Hyperion Interactive reporting clients from amateur to complex. if you end up suffering whereas utilizing this device otherwise you are new to the instrument, this e-book will advisor you thru and make the educational technique incremental.

By Jürgen Gulbins

Wenn bei den heutigen Möglichkeiten des Desktop-Publishings Typographie nicht optimum gestaltet wird, liegt es meist daran, daß grundlegende handwerkliche Regeln nicht bekannt sind und ihre Bedeutung übersehen wird. Dieses Buch möchte dies ändern. Um exzellente Ergebnisse zu erhalten, sind typographische Kenntnisse einfach ein Muß. Das Buch gibt dazu eine Einführung in die Typographie, erklärt und vermittelt die wesentlichen Gestaltungsregeln und schildert die für den Gestalter notwendigen Hintergründe. Ganz praktisch wird gezeigt, wie sich all dies bei der Erstellung von Dokumenten mit dem laptop umsetzen läßt.
Die zweite Auflage geht neben den Distributionsformaten HTML und PDF auch auf die Gestaltung von Diagrammen und Präsentationsfolien ein und gibt einen Einstieg in die Verwendung von Farbe in Dokumenten.
Das fundierte Fachwissen der Autorin über Typographie sowie die langjährige Erfahrung des Autors im Bücherschreiben ergänzen sich hier excellent und tragen wesentlich zu shape und Kompetenz des Buches bei.

By Dave Shea

Proving as soon as and for all that standards-compliant layout doesn't equivalent boring layout, this inspiring tome makes use of examples from the landmark CSS Zen backyard website because the starting place for discussions on find out how to create appealing, innovative CSS-based sites. by utilizing the Zen backyard websites as examples of the way CSS layout ideas and ways should be utilized to precise net demanding situations, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag supply an eye-opening examine the diversity of layout tools made attainable through CSS (Cascading kind Sheets). by the point you might have comprehensive perusing the amount, you will have a brand new realizing of the graphically wealthy, absolutely available websites that CSS layout allows. In sections on layout, format, imagery, typography, results, and topics, Dave and Molly take you thru each section of the layout method - from amazing a smart stability among textual content and photos to making eye-popping lighting tricks (no scripting required).

By Lisa A. Bucki

What greater manner for readers to benefit the latest model of Flash than with the short & effortless sequence! Macromedia Flash MX 2004 speedy & effortless internet improvement provides solution-oriented options for developing dynamic animations and photos for the net. via illustrated step-by step directions, this name demonstrates the applied sciences of Macromedia Flash 2004 whereas offering useful functions to boot. masking either the home windows and Mac models, readers will research vital Flash abilities similar to utilizing symbols and tweening, utilizing vector-based content material for swifter downloads, and optimizing animations for the internet. utilizing a hands-on method of yield quick effects and downloadable pattern records to perform suggestions, this booklet is appropriate for either newbies and present clients meaning to research the most recent gains of Flash.

By Howard Wettstein

The overdue twentieth century observed nice flow within the philosophy of language, usually severe of the fathers of the subject--Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Russell--but occasionally supportive of (or even protective approximately) the paintings of the fathers. Howard Wettstein's sympathies lie with the critics. yet he says that they have got usually misconceived their serious undertaking, treating it in ways in which are technically concentrated and that omit the deeper implications in their innovative problem. Wettstein argues that Wittgenstein--a determine with whom the critics of Frege and Russell tend to be unsympathetic--laid the root for far of what's particularly progressive during this past due twentieth century flow.

The topic itself may be of serious curiosity, on account that philosophy of language has functioned as a type of starting place for far of twentieth century philosophy. yet in reality it continues to be an issue for experts, because the rules are tough and the mode of presentation is usually particularly technical. during this booklet, Wettstein brings the non-specialist into the dialog (especially in early chapters); he additionally reconceives the controversy in a manner that avoids technical formula. The Magic Prism is meant for pro philosophers, graduate scholars, and top department undergraduates.

By Lisa A. Bucki

Do not spend it slow wading via manuals to profit Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004. Spend it doing what you do most sensible - developing websites! The hands-on method of "Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 speedy & effortless internet improvement" could have you up and working very quickly. monitor via display, use this entire advisor to customise Fireworks MX 2004, use layers to control pictures, optimize and export pics, upload animation on your pix, create and increase pop-up menus, and use instruments and filters to create subtle pix. by the point you are accomplished, you will be developing awesome internet pictures with more advantageous functionality and speedier obtain occasions. much less time, much less attempt, extra effects!