About Desktop Publishing: Double Trouble in Page Layout?

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Desktop Publishing Desktop Publishing Get Started Choose Software Templates From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing In the grand scheme of things, Comic Sans, a few typos, and a small dose of ransom note design isn't all that life-threatening. But in our day-to-day life little details do make a difference. Please update your email contacts: desktoppub.guide@about.com is no longer a valid address. Please use desktoppub@aboutguide.com Thanks! Seeing Double Repetition is a valid principle of design. But doubling up on the text isn't necessarily a good thing as I discuss in this mini-rant on pull-quotes and captions. Don't Use Double Hard Returns You've got that fancy page layout software. Why are you using it like a typewriter? Search Related Topics:  desktop publishing rules  word processing  paragraph spacing Duplex It (the Fancy Double) Double-sided printing can save paper and money and of course if you print your own brochures and newsletters you definitely want to double up with duplex printing. Search Related Topics:  duplex printing  desktop printing  Back-to-Back Booklets Here's a handy chart for when you're trying to impose pages for a booklet. Search Related Topics:  imposition  booklets  page numbers Related Searches Desktop Publishing Design Software Desktop Software Free Software Microsoft Software Featured Articles Build a Better Brochure Can You Write? Get Personal With QR Codes Hurray for the Hypho? 2 Minute Tutorial: Gestalt Acronyms & Abbreviations: FPO   More from About.com Run Your First 5K Even couch potatoes can be ready for a 5K with just a couple months of training. Read more...> Help! I'm Too Busy Time and stress management tips to help you feel as though you have more time. Read more...> This newsletter is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Desktop Publishing newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2013 About.com   When Doubling Up is Good Double Parellel Folds Double Quotation Marks Double-storey a   Follow me on: Advertisement