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Desktop Publishing with WordPerfect for 5.0 and 5.1
Second Edition by Roger C. Parker
review by Marshall R. Madole
OKC-PC User's Group
I decided to review this book for a couple of reasons. First, I have
WordPerfect 5.0 and second, I have done some publishing using
commercial programs such as First Publisher 3.0 and Express Publisher.
After using WordPerfect, I am very pleased with the results. I have a
Cordata XT compatible at home with a Star NX-1000 Rainbow and a AST
486 with a Laserjet III at work. I like using my home system for the
ability of using color. Unfortunately, the book doesn't cover color
printing, probably because most publishing is in black and white.
The book is very well written with easy to follow instructions and
plenty of samples to compare your work to as you are creating your
publication. It tells you what key to press and the response you
should get. For example, some books will tell you to select fonts,
this book will say "Press (CTRL-F8)(FONT)" which is excellent for
novice users of WordPerfect who like myself need a keypad aid or chart
to remember what keys are what.
The organization of the book is arranged very orderly starting with
an overview and proceeding on to chapter two which covers basic
publishing fundamentals. Chapter four is one of my personal favorites,
using graphics. Using the utilities that come with WordPerfect, I find
that I can screen capture about any graphic and use it in my document.
Although the book doesn't cover capture and conversion, it does cover
in detail about rotating, sizing and placement of graphics within
your publication. I liked the part about adding shading to a box for
a background of your graphic. It also covers creating a box and adding
shading such as a headline or sidebar that you would find in more
costly publications. Also covered is creating a table of contents;
tracking of tables, charts and graphs; and creating an index;
footnotes and creating a master document. A master document is for
when you are working on a large document and if you delete a paragraph
or enter new words, the repagination process will slow you down
considerably. The same thing happens when spell checking a large
document. The master document feature will allow you to create a
relatively small master document that includes numerous subdocuments
such as individual chapters in a book.
Section two covers design tips and tricks and gives information on
creating flyers, letterheads, business cards, newsletters, catalogs,
menus, invoices, purchase orders and price lists. After using both
commercial publishing packages and WordPerfect, I would use
WordPerfect for the majority of my work for the following reasons;
more typefaces and fonts available, shading, the features normally
incorporated in a word processing package such as a spell checker and
formatting options. I don't have access to expensive publishing
packages such as Aldus, but I firmly believe that WordPerfect can do
just about any publishing project that you might have and this book
would make a welcome edition to any library.