Instant style

Article Abstract:

Quark Inc's Style desktop publishing software package may be a good investment for a small company needing convenient access to corporate communications materials. However, design inflexibility makes Style inadvisable as a stand-alone page-layout program. The program offers more than 70 templates, complete and fully formatted documents which the user simply fills in over greeked text. Designs are snappy and contemporary. The best are in document sets that create a corporate identity package: letterheads, business cards, envelopes, memos, reports and invoices, for example. The other part of the program appears to be a modification of Quark's Xpress; however the changes in type handling, color, and other features limit Xpress's flexibility. The templates can be modified but results are usually unsuccessful from a design standpoint.

Product information, Evaluation, Quark Inc., Style (Computer program)

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Word forms: with a little planning, you can design forms with Microsoft Word on the Mac

Article Abstract:

Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh, the word processing package, can function to create simple forms. The program has both word processing and rudimentary graphics capabilities: it can box paragraphs, import graphics, and draw lines. Moreover, Word 3.0 is appealing because many desktop publishers are already familiar with it. Setting up a form, however, requires some planning and adapting, so that a user can move among data-entry fields efficiently. The trick is to design data-entry points so that moving from one to another requires only a couple of keystrokes. A form for an imaginary photostat service is used to demonstrate how to accomplish this.

Usage, Business forms, Word processing, column, Forms, Microsoft Word 3.0 (Word processing software)

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Color on the spot

Article Abstract:

Desktop publishing programs and quick-print shops can work together to produce color pages easily and inexpensively. Although newer programs expressively advertise their color capabilities, an older program that can copy a line of text or a graphic image into the same position on a separate page can create a color overlay. Pages that contain only one color element are even simpler. The customer need only supply the print shop with two laser printouts: one containing everything that is printed in black, and the other containing the color element. Issues involved in planning a publication, choosing tints, shading, and mixing colors are also discussed.

Commercial printing, not elsewhere classified, Business planning, Graphics software, Text processing software, Color, Graphic arts, Offset Printing

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