Garbage In, Gorgeous Out : Text & Graphics Translation

Garnett, Walt

ISBN 10: 0079118941 / ISBN 13: 9780079118943

Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, Whitby, ON, Canada, 1994

About this Item

420 pages. Twelve Chapters: Disk translation, How a disk works, Software text translation, Text translation details, Last-ditch text translation, Extracting graphics from text files, Graphics formats, Translating bitmapped images, TIFF and .TIF images, Translating vector images, Last-ditch graphics translation and Quickies and other stuff. Also includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, References, Details on icluded programs, Glossary, Index and About The Author. Disk included that contains data conversion utilities. File translation made fast and easy. Covers TIFF, PCX, PICT, GIF, IGS, DXF, PostScript and other graphics file formats. Includes conversion tips for Word, WordPerfect, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Freehand, Photoshop, CorelDRAW! and Illustration. When the commercial packages let you down and all else fails, this practical reference comes to the resuce with sections on last-ditch text and graphics translation techniques.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Garbage In, Gorgeous Out : Text & Graphics Translation
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, Whitby, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0079118941
• ISBN 13: 9780079118943
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A practical guide to translating text for anyone involved in electronic publishing. The book covers translation from Macs to PCs and PCs to Macs, as well as between applications (or different versions of the same applications).