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Understanding Windows Draw

Peter Kent

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Web Publisher's 3D & Animation Design Guide for Windows: Your Visual, Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Amazing 3D and Animated Web Pages

Mary Jo Fahey

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Editorial Review:

Features easy-to-create VRML from 3D applications, and instructions for setting up a 3D chat environment for retailing, gaming, schoolrooms, or virtual companies. Takes the reader from start to finish of the included samples of 3D and animation projects. Contains a close-up look at how famous artists, Hollywood directors, and corporations are using 3D and animation in their work and on their Web sites. Gives the user advance information on how the cable companies plan to increase bandwidth with cable modems. Features step-by-step instructions on creating GIF animations, and includes a guide to inexpensive software used to add animation to a Netscape Web page. Reviews the latest VRML browsers, and shows how to choose the right one for each computer.

Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF

Bruce Page, Diana Holm

List Price: $39.95 By: John Wiley & Sons Amazon Marketplace: 12 new & used starting at $0.44

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Great book, but I felt it's too late 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Web publishing with Adobe Acrobat should be a fine book. I received quite a few good tips from it; however I noticed some problems with the topic being outdated. Shame on me for not noticing that it was published in 1996. In the cyberspace world, this may as well have been published a century ago. Please give us an update - so much has changed in the last 6 years!

Editorial Review:

This book will enable you to start and maintain a cutting-edge Web publishing venture using Adobe's Acrobat software and the PDF electronic publishing format. You'll learn to produce electronic documents that retain their high-quality design, whether they're distributed through your Web site or other electronic media. Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF teaches you all the major Web Acrobat publishing techniques, including how to: Prepare information for multimedia publishing via PDF and the Web. Create PDF documents with both Acrobat and traditional desktop publishing tools (Quark, Pagemaker, Word). Configure a Web server to manage interwoven PDF and HTML documents and indexed sets of PDF files. Publish PDF documents on CD-ROM, and via Lotus Notes and other networks.

Publish It on the Web!: Windows Version

Bryan Pfaffenberger

List Price: $34.95 By: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Amazon Marketplace: 18 new & used starting at $0.01

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Informative and enjoyable 5 out of 5 stars.
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I would recommend this book to people who have browsed the web and now want to get involved in writing their own web pages. I love the fact its Macintosh oriented! Also, this book takes you through a (brief) history of hypertext, html, etc. and explains (briefly) the controversies between purists and standardizers - I have a better understanding of where all this came from. Pfaffenberger is an excellent and entertaining writer - maybe a little tiny bit simplistic in some ways but not condescendingly patronizing and very thorough. After having looked through several books including "HTML for Dummies" (definitely condescending) and another thick book professing to give you everything you need to know on running a website (which was written by a compendium of people and assumed you understood all sorts of things) - I would say this is a great starting point. (I rated a 9 because I feel there is ALWAYS room for improvement...)

Editorial Review:

Exploring every facet of Web publishing beginning with an in-depth exploration of Web publishers' connectivity options, this book covers all the technical and procedural aspects of Web publishing--including the use of the HTML markup language and HTML editors. It explains how to integrate multimedia applications such as Adobe Photoshop and includes tips and how-to instructions for creating MPEG videos, scanned GIF and JPEG images.