Still Stepping into Brochure Printing
Once you've set up your document for your color brochure printing do-it-yourself project, you enter the text that you want on each page of your brochure. You can do this in a number of ways. The more text you have in proportion to the amount of artwork in your brochure printing project, the easier your text entry is going to be.
If you don't have a ton of text on each page you may want to just type the text into the brochure template yourself. You can also import it from another program, or copy it. There are four different text methods that you should consider, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. You can enter your text as plain text files, as rich text files (RTF), as files that are tab delimited or files whose text is tagged.
Once you've entered your text into the template for the brochure, you will need to format that text. Here is where you line up your text the way you want it to look and in the right places on the brochure. You indicate the typeface you are wanting in your brochure, the style, the point size of the type, and the spacing. Don't worry that it has to be exact. You'll have plenty of opportunity to play with it later. Just consider this your preliminary text layout pattern for your color brochure printing and have fun with it. Embellish if you feel the urge to brave some of the brochure printing elements, such as fancier fonts or drop caps, for example.
Now that you have your text in the document, with preliminary sizing and spacing, enter your graphics into your color brochure printing project. One thing we should note here is that were you to create a brochure that has more graphics than text (not recommended while you're still learning brochure printing) you'd put the graphics in first and then work the text in around it.
To add your graphics to your working brochure, you have a few method choices. Just like the text you can import, you can copy from another program or you can create from scratch right in your brochure's template. Now you start playing with your graphics. Your text is already in your brochure so you have to size and space your art so that the text wraps around it in an attractive and effective way. You're undoubtedly going to end up resizing your graphics time and again, and may end up needing to crop some, in order to get this right.
Once you've prettied up your brochure, it's time to proofread the first draft. This is first draft brochure printing time. And, no matter how accomplished an editor, writer, designer or proofreader you believe you are, have someone else proofread your brochure as well.
Once you believe it's exactly as you want it to be, it's really color brochure printing time.
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