...English 296A: Desktop Publishing and the Literary Magazine Instructor: Jim Manis Office: Administration Building, Room 205 Office Hours: (Anno... ...lish 296A: Desktop Publishing and the Literary Magazine Instructor: Jim Manis Office: Administration Building, Room 205 Office Hours: (Announce...

Background: By the mid 1980s the Macintosh, and to some extent the PC, had made desktop publishing a mainstay in the world of publishing professional quality documents. At this point a significant shift occurred in the production of published materials. A key element in this production moved from the hands of the printer to the editor. Simply put, editors no longer needed to rely on printers to create their documents. Production began to move from the printing houses to the editor's desktop. Layout, typesetting, and image control are now fully available to the editor. As a result, it is important that those who traditionally were involved in the creation of print (and now digital) information be introduced to the tools that make this possible....