The best Desktop Publishing books: Reddit reviews

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Ellen Lupton's book is the first recommended reading for my degree I guess thats a place to start will update when I get home and see the full list if you want to know what a uni recommends?

Link to amazon copy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1568989695/

I would recommend keeping the humidifier outside of the tent to humidify the room, rather than the tent (assuming you are pulling fresh air into the tent from the room). I also recommend getting THIS BOOK. It really helped me understand a lot more when I was starting out.

Unfortunately I haven't read it myself but "Thinking with type" seems to be a popular one lots of designers recommend to each other, doesn't seem that expensive on Amazon either.

^(Reason I haven't read it is that all the books I've read on design have been in my country's language (european))

www.growweedeasy.com is a good place to start but I would also recommend getting a book. This book is what really helped me understand a lot when I started growing https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932551467/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Stop Stealing Sheep, so good you pictured it twice ;-)

I'd include The Mac is not a typewriter as a great beginners book, and I'd discount Just my Type by Simon Garfield as he wrongly identified a font I used in a campaign as Comic Sans, it was Giant Sized Spectacular.

Not that I'm bitter about it though ;-)

Googling and glancing at it this seems decent:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

(I mostly learned LaTeX from Lamport's 1994 LaTex book in the mid 2000s, but wouldn't recommend it today.)

This is a slightly off-tangent recommendation but I never pass up an opportunity to share this:

https://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-2nd/dp/0201782634

I was gifted this book in 1993 and it absolutely upped my typesetting game to a whole new level. 99% of it is relevant today, 30 years later (yikes!).

I feel like for self-taught designers it’s a must have.

I recommend buying Lamport and reading it. Then write a paper using it. If you need stuff not in Lamport, then the LaTeX Companion is the go-to source.

Not what you wanted, but for reference these books are infinitely better than all the videos in the world plus stackoverflow.

Ed Rosenthal's marijuana growers handbook is one of the standards in self education in the needs of weed. Marijuana is an annual with a taproot. I'd imagine supporting every month and adding a rock under the roots each time would be a way to go about it.

Think of it as two domains: what you and how you say it.

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What you say

• Look at prior examples from the fund to see what's considered salient
• Note how stage, sector will influence what's relevant
• Be pithy
• Get feedback early and continuously on what information to include
• If necessary, use appendices or link other documents for details

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How you say it

• Learn basic graphic design skills
• Choose your platform (PowerPoint, Keynote, Slides) and dive into advanced features
• Consider books like this on slide design
• Check Pinterest or Google Images for inspiration (e.g., timeline designs)
• Consider getting a big monitor and a mouse to make doing layout less unpleasant

Awesome attitude! Read this book if your stuck: Logo Design Love

Also check out using grids. I’m not great with typography. I usually play it safe and stick with either Adobe Fonts or Hoefler Type.

Ellen is a renowned designer. And type is so critical in design and communications. Here’s a great one:

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Type-2nd-revised-expanded/dp/1568989695/ref=sr_1_3?crid=8GQVVMDR1H9R&keywords=ellen+lupton&qid=1636895769&qsid=141-0318947-1088864&sprefix=Ellen+lup%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-3&sres=194230319X%2C15689...

You can get Robert Bergmann grow Bible off his site for free if you sign up for email or something Here . They have physical copies if you prefer.

The Growers handbook is also popular.

Forums and sites like www.growweedeasy.com that has tutorials will be more up to date with things like equipment recommendations for example.

The LaTeX Companion was invaluable to me when I first tried learning LaTeX many years ago. You don't have to read it cover to cover, just read the parts you need as you go. I've almost worn my copy out from so much use. All the online documentation and tutorials are fine, but for me this book was the best way to get started.

Marijuana Grower's Handbook by Ed Rosenthal I have it, like it a lot, and it is the actual course book for Oaksterdam University's class.

A absolutely recommend a text-only format and to store it along with the source code in version control.

I've used reStructuredText for smaller documentations and LaTeX for larger ones. (I also used the LEO text editor to document a large library in HTML/chm, it is interesting but this leans more to the experimental side).

reStructuredText has some specific support which makes it more powerful than Markdown, for example it has extensive support for formatted code listings, and can add tables of content. It has many output options. You can convert it to wikitext, using the pandoc vonversion utility. Also, github can render it. There is a python pip package called restview which renders your document in the browser, including links, while you type it - this works very smoothly.

With LaTeX, code listings (I guess you don't need them here) be done using the "minted" Package. What makes LaTeX extremely good specifically for the purpose of documentation is, apart from a very consistent formatting, its support for a keyword index. And this is something you really need to make information discoverable in a large documentation. It is actually fun to build it. You can compile documents to different paper sizes, one in B5 which fits well as a PDF on a medium screen, and one for printing on A4 paper, for example. With the right font settings, it looks really really good and top notch readable.

Book recommendation (and a good example on how to do it well) : Leslie Lamport, LaTeX, A Document Preparation System.

Edit: Also, I have good experiences with inkscape for graphics. Readers love graphics.

Edit: Racket's scribble has been mentioned. I think it is good.

I grow in soil and watching Cali Green vids taught me quite a bit. Then I got a book by Ed Rosenthal to teach me the science. The main thing to remember is there is no correct way to grow and to only listen to one or two people. There are tons of products out there and you don’t need your grow transforming into a alchemical lab.

You should already be prepared. In case you’re not:

https://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Growers-Handbook-Complete-Cultivation/dp/0932551467

Great! Thanks for the quick reply. I also found this book > https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Type-2nd-revised-expanded/dp/1568989695

I would highly recommend getting this book. There are a lot of good websites, too, but I've personally learned more from that book than from any of the websites.

Thinking with type second edition https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Type-2nd-revised-expanded/dp/1568989695

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers (German and English Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/3721201450/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_w1MtCb7YYFE0J

Ed Rosenthal for the win! Best Book out here

Ed's Boks Of Badass-ness

Slidology... https://www.amazon.com/slide-ology-Science-Creating-Presentations/dp/0596522347/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1513028896&sr=8-6&keywords=presentation Nancy Duarte did other books (e.g. Resonate). There is plenty of practical and good stuff in there. She also gives trainnigs and a lot of great leadership guys I met, had a Duarte training.

You should probably start with Leslie Lamport's classic. It's clear, thorough, and concise. It also has a reference section in the back where you can look things up quickly if you forget some particular syntax. Plus the drawings in the book are really cute! After reading this book you can move on to some of the more modern tutorials people have linked to.

DKNG has some awesome videos about poster design process. Check out their Vimeo page You should definitely ditch PowerPoint. Have you played around w/ Illustrator at all?

There used to be a really killer site called gigposters.com that shut down last year. Not sure what the best place on the web is for poster inspiration now. A few good design books to check out:

[Thinking With Type](www.amazon.com/dp/1568989695/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_X0PbAbTMZCJ18)

[Hand Job: A Catalog of Type](www.amazon.com/dp/1568986262/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_c3PbAb8RH44GN)

[Making and Breaking the Grid](www.amazon.com/dp/163159284X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_l6PbAbFG91SE7)

[Gig Posters](www.amazon.com/dp/1594743266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_T9PbAbBN07K80)

Link of the book :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321985206/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=inkbot05-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0321985206&linkId=b05fbd7ab1b9acec082c4f5f61b362ba

yes Leds work really well because they Emit light in that very specific Frequency, other White lights are a mix of light wavelengths, Leds put out PURE blue which is very high energy, uses the most also. and red or etc, that one wavelength is very very strong compared to the bulb doing the entire spectrum. The UVB recommendation is from Ed Rosenthal and Chongs book;[ https://www.amazon.ca/Marijuana-Growers-Handbook-Complete-Cultivation/dp/0932551467/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488433978&sr=8-1&keywords=ed+rosenthal ] which you should buy on amazon, It doesnt affect chlorophyll, but apparently it forms strong cells in other ways, Do your own test, two clones side by side trial, one exposed to UVB. The book says your bud will be more potent under the uvb.

Gotta ask the extremely obvious question, are you using a grid?

I was designing my (print) portfolio recently, and this book has been of terrific help. You'll find useful ideas there for web design as well.

There are also some hard limits on how wide a line is compared to the font size. As in, the maximum number of letters on a single line. I think it's about 45-60 letters, but I could be mistaken. But this is the sort of thing that could be researched when "deciding widths".

It is an improvement!

If you are interested in learning more about this topic, Thinking With Type provides a useful foundation. I'm sure that, in 2016, there are other publications that have eclipsed the popularity of this one; I just haven't gone book shopping in a while.

Find a good book. I have one (I think it's this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201362996/ref=cm_sw_r_taa_ZBGxxbFYM23S2) and the fact it shows you a ton of packages and how to use them fantastic. I haven't come across a tutorial that has remotely as much info as that book.