{"id":605,"date":"2017-05-01T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/?page_id=605"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:59:58","slug":"dtp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/dtp\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphics software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2711\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DorotheaLange.Poster-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-image-2711 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DorotheaLange.Poster-2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DorotheaLange.Poster-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DorotheaLange.Poster-2.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Layout with MS Word. Lots of problems with exact structure and details.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><b>If you are trying <\/b>to create print or interactive web publications, you should be using InDesign or an equivalent graphics\u00a0 application. Usually we don&#8217;t use Microsoft word for this.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Microsoft word<\/strong> allows for some alignment of text, text boxes and images, as in the Dorothea Lange poster.\u00a0 \u00a0However, details of juxtapositions get lost with the lack of control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adobe InDesign <\/strong>is the industry standard graphics assembly program for publication layouts of all kinds. It has strong controls over exact placement details.\u00a0 Adobe has an excellent step by step tutorial for creating publications\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/indesign\/tutorials.html?mv=product&amp;mv2=ind#\">that is located here.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>RU students can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/radford.service-now.com\/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0011791\">RU Virtual Computer lab<\/a> for most applications, but not InDesign, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viva.us\/en\/\"><strong>Viva Designer <\/strong><\/a>is a graphics application like InDesign. It can be downloaded\u00a0 for a free one month trial period.\u00a0More Adobe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/features\/indesign-alternatives\"> InDesign alternatives are described here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are trying to create print or interactive web publications, you should be using InDesign or an equivalent graphics\u00a0 application. Usually we don&#8217;t use Microsoft word for this. Microsoft word allows for some alignment of text, text boxes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/dtp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}