What's new?

Our latest book: Type & Layout. This is subtitled Are you communicating or just making pretty shapes. In it Colin Wheildon details his research into what in terms of choices in typefaces and layout affects the number of readers you will have for a flyer, magazine, newspaper, advertisement or any printed material.

A new field for us opens with a book which has been well established for several years: Fences - for Town and Country is already a leading book in its field, and is now published by The Worsley Press. This will be followed shortly by another John Stacpoole book, What Timber Will I Use? More details on this book will be available in mid April.

We have also changed our web site menus, with more dteailed, drop down menus on each page, which we hope makes it easier to move around this site.

Looking for an ad booking system for a publication? This is a list of the firms which make them.

We have reorganised our media section, which includes many articles on subjects covered by our books - with just a mention of us, not a hard sell.

Just published: the substantially revised fourth edition of How to Start and Produce a Magazine or Newsletter.

PageMaker dead? Not quite -- read our take on the recent industry news reports. OK there won't be a PM8, but there could be a 7.1 and there is still support for the many, many thousands of users.

We have a new set of pages for our book Pathway to Publication which will be of special interest to writers.

Our book Publish Your Book: a guide to self-publishing has also been updated and there's a PDF of substantial extracts which you can download.

For PageMaker users there is now a SmartCase script on our PageMaker scripts page. This gives a selected range of text, for a title, initial caps for most words but not for some prepositions, articles and conjunctions. The list of exceptions can be customised.

Also on the same page is a PageMaker script to apply different styles to the text between tabs. Ideal for creating tables without using TableEditor.

We now have a distributor in the UK, Eyelevel Books. This means that not only can payments be made in UK pounds but, even more importantly that stocks of our books are now held in Britain for immediate despatch. Our books are distributed in the USA by Florida Academic Press.

You can now order on line using a secure order facility from either the US, UK or Australia in UK£, US$ or Australian$. Go to out web store and select the section for the UK, US, Australia, NZ or the rest of the world. We can now assure anyone ordering our books that there credit card details are securely encrypted between entry on your computer and receipt in our office. (Wherever you are you can order from either the US or Australia -- just check the exchange rates for the best deal).

An article on this site, The DTP contenders: which page layout program for you?, gives a very brief guide to many of the page layout programs currently available with a one paragraph summary and, in most cases, a link to further information from an independent source.