Book layout design process

The book layout design process mainly includes the following processes:

1. standard layout creation: page page number settings, margins, page center settings, page number type settings, font settings

2. header settings, footnote form

3. illustrations, illustrated tables of the typographic form.

4. All levels of the title of the font size, occupies the line and layout forms such as: (centered, front space, back to the form of line, etc.).

5. The font and font size of the text.

6. Typographic form of annexed parts other than the text (schedules, charts, references, etc.).

Extended information:

Books are laid out in pages. Each page consists of different sizes of text, charts, etc. in accordance with uniform technical specifications. In the same book, regardless of its format and content, the body must be unified font size, line length, line spacing, etc., to maintain the basic consistency of the center of the page. Mainly deal with the title, page number, text, notes and charts and graphs of the relationship between each other, so that the composition of the layout is clear, coordinated, beautiful, easy to read.

Science and technology books and textbooks for colleges and universities more than 16 books, these books often have more formulas, charts and other content, small layout is not easy to layout, in addition to the number of pages is also more, and thus more suitable for the 16-page format.

Magazines and periodicals to be more than the content of the book, the layout format and organization of more columns (double columns to four columns), the font size can be flexible, version of the heart of the book can be arranged with a larger version of the comparison.

For the convenience of printing and machine binding pages, the number of pages is mostly 32, 48, 64 and other numbers that can be divided by 16, using a simple "horseback binding".

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