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1. Inddesign forum with incatalog manual#
2. Inddesign forum with incatalog software#

Nevertheless I have used TeX/LaTeX for papers, a great many handouts and several grants and found that I could follow the Tufte guidelines and place figures alongside relevant text rather easily. TeX's biggest drawback is that it is not a WYSIWYG application and that visual formatting is done iteratively. TeX and it's derivatives LateX and ConTeXt are often used to produce scientific publications especially those that have a lot of equations and they excel at producing structured documents such as textbooks (many Springer-Verlag and Cambridge University Press titles are produced from camera ready copy or PDFs provided by the author and generated using TeX).

Inddesign forum with incatalog software#

I'd also like to suggest an addition to the list of software that can be used to produce a book. The latter offers an excellent if a little dated guide to the industrial process of producing a book. Both are excellent guides to the design and production of a book. I would like to add Adrian Wilson's The design of books and Hugh Williamson's Methods of book design.

Inddesign forum with incatalog manual#

I heartily agree with Dr Tufte on looking at Ruari McLean's work especially Ruari McLean's The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography and also at Robert Bringhurst's The elements of typographic style. One strategy to do this relatively inexpensively is to find a recent MFA in book design and typography, show them exactly what you want by means of exemplars, and work with them closely on the page layout to insure, among other things, that the images fall properly in relation to the text.īut the first and most important step is to identify good examples of what you want just go through your library. If you have colleagues in medical illustration and medical informatics, they might be able to suggest a designer. Book design at a high level requires a great deal of professional skill and hard work, and, I believe, close collaboration with the author. You can get help from nearly any student of graphic design, who will know XPress or InDesign. To do the book yourself requires the use of a serious page-layout program, either Quark XPress or Adobe InDesign, backed up by PhotoShop and Illustrator. Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style is superb. Ruari McLean has published several excellent books on book design and typography. Textbook design these days tends toward over-produced, self-conscious, content-unconscious arrangements. Even better find out who designed those books and turn the job over to a professional whose work you respect. Find a few well-designed books in your field (that is, medicine and science) and follow those architectures.