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Hasib · Oct 7, 2002, 02:10 PM

Hello Mac users:

Do you have any recommendations for books [beginning to intermediate level] on the following topics?

1. Technical documents/user manuals.
2. Page layout (for print, not web).

I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks!
Hasib..

godzookie2k · Oct 7, 2002, 05:26 PM

Elements of Typographical Style, Robert Bringhurst

make it your bible.

Grid Systems

also make it your bible.

also, Graphic Master 7

Make it your bible.

Hasib · Oct 7, 2002, 05:57 PM

Thanks godzookie2k.

I can't assure that I'll make them my bibles, but I'll definitely check them out.

Regards,
Hasib.

godzookie2k · Oct 7, 2002, 07:31 PM

NO, MAN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAAAAANNNNNDD

uhm... ok make em your <insert holy book of choice here>

j/k

Hasib · Oct 7, 2002, 08:03 PM

Well, I'm starting to get the picture. But please do understand that I'm not a graphic designer. I just need to write training/user manuals at work. But I would like to write good ones.

Is it ok to start with the first book you suggested and then get the other two if I want to baptize myself in serious typography?

Hasib..

godzookie2k · Oct 7, 2002, 08:40 PM

Ahhh, WRITING training manuals...not designing training manuals.

these might help. the books above are more towards page layout...baptism begins with the elements of type style book.

http://www.teamandtask.com/bookstore/bkbuscom.htm

http://www.studiob.com/content.asp?cID=156

Chicago Manual of Style is a good idea too.

sorry about the mix up.

Hasib · Oct 7, 2002, 08:56 PM

Thanks a bunch godzookie2k. Certainly looks likes books I can use.

I really appreciate it.

Hasib..

arrested502 · Oct 9, 2002, 04:14 AM

I wrote some S.O.P.'s for a former Pre-Press and Typography job I worked at. I was researching some specialized software to work with QuarkXPress and a Database. I pretty-much documented my findings as I went along. But I admit it helps to also be one of the designers/artists. I'd have been hard pressed to develop any S.O.P.'s without knowing the job first-hand myself. If I didn't know the job myself, I'd definitely be looking for plenty of input from the people that do. All-in-all it was a somewhat tedius process because I worked on the S.O.P.'s at home in my own time. Eventually I had people trained to work that way and then I got canned from that job

No good deed goes un-punished

Ahh don't mind me, I'm just rambling. It's late and I should be getting some sleep.