BKWP6PPK.RVW 940121 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 or Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com Bob Donegon bobd@aw.com John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com Tom Stone, Editor, Higher Education Division tomsto@aw.com 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 "The WordPerfect 6 Print & Presentation Kit", Solomon, 1993, 0-201-62261-0, U$28.95/C$37.95 If you are a rank newcomer to the publication of presentation documents, this is a reasonably good start. The first part of the book covers some of the basics of design. The material is simple, and mostly common sense. It is by no means extensive: the author starts the book by boasting that she has no training in design, and, unfortunately, it shows. It also assumes that you have access to extensive resources in the way of printers, scanners, clip-art and fonts: there is no discussion of how to "make do" or maximize what you may have. If you are not a WordPerfect user, not to worry. Part 1 has nothing at all to do with WordPerfect. Part 2 does, but you won't be missing much. Part 3 supposedly does, but you should be able to figure out how to do it in your system. If you *are* a WordPerfect user, you won't be getting an awful lot of presentation help here. Many of the aspects that are discussed in detail aren't related to desktop publishing (such as how to use the button bar). Those aspects that are important to publishing seem to have a surprising lack of detail. The aspect of "boxes" (which is what WordPerfect uses for graphics and many special effects) is covered in a scant twenty pages, despite its vital important to presentation. The material seems to be little more than a reworking of the manual. There is nothing in the way of tips, tricks, shortcomings, or workarounds. (Wordperfect users had also better be using version 6.0: although, as with other program users, you may be able to figure it out, there is no reference to earlier versions of the program at all.) The third part of the book gives supposed samples of things to do for yourself. Again, this section has little to do with the WordPerfect program, and is pretty standard boilerplate stuff. An outline for a brochure, for example, suggests printing in landscape with narrow margins and three columns for a "three-fold" page. Not exactly rocket science. Those who are just starting out in desktop publishing with WordPerfect 6.0 may find some tips here. Those who have turned out a newsletter to their own satisfaction probably don't need it. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKWP6PPK.RVW 940121 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" (Oct. '94) Springer-Verlag