Why do you want to use Fontographer? For the fun of it When I received the opportunity to go back to my roots, and see what the new Fontographer was like, I was a little concerned. I had just spent nine years painfully teaching myself to letterspace by hand, to write OpenType features, and to become accustomed to the tool set of FontLab. Don't get me wrong, FontLab is a great program and I am grateful for what I have learned. There are still a few features of FontLab that, as a professional font designer, I cannot do without. But I was taken by surprise. Fontographer brought the fun back It is still the same marvelous program with which I first learned to design fonts. The drawing interface is still clean, clear, and elegant. I still works the way I have learned to work over the past two decades of digital graphic design. I found pure joy in drawing again. Fontographer is a wonderful drawing experience. It has been a real joy to experience that fun again. After nearly a decade in FontLab, font design is fun again. To quote from the book: "Fontographer is an application which appeals to experienced graphics designers with a background in PostScript illustration... The majority of designers working in the mid-1990s had a copy of Fontographer...and everyone probably used it at least a little]. Fontographer had and still has] a unique and intuitive set of drawing tools that enable amateurs of that era to enter the world of font design. I'm talking amateurs in the sense that John Baskerville considered himself an amateur-as I also consider myself, though I am certainly not in Baskerville's league. For me, font design is a beloved sideline with which I indulge myself. It's become a treasured tool I use in my current trade-book writing, designing, and production." Welcome ...to an experiment in font design Not a horribly auspicious way to start out a book is it? It is the way I start out my FontLab book, but things have changed since then. I had lost my experimental, creative edge-entering into font production as a career. Now after writing this book, I find that I really do not like font design as a career (writing and book design do that for me), but I still love it as a creative expression. Nevertheless, it is still an experiment. All of my font designs are experiments. Honestly, as a font designer, my only credentials are experience and practice tied to a growing body of customers who have purchased my experiments. Since going full-time with Hackberry Font Foundry and the Radiqx Press publishing house in 2009 I have learned a lot. Mainly I have learned that my personal vision is simply that-personal. I am not claiming superiority to anyone. In fact, I am an amateur in the old British sense of the word. I'm really into it. I've gotten quite experienced. But I have no interest in what the industry says must be done. Most of the modern fashionable font designs seem far too overdone and nearly pretentious to my eye. Showing off is for kids. My focus is simply on getting good fonts I can use and which meet my needs. They are designed as simply and easily as possible. I am merely sharing what I have learned as an alternative to design school training. For me, self-taught is not a hostile epithet but a way of life.

How can I make it better the next time? This is the plaintive question I get every time after I have set up, formatted, and uploaded a book for a new author. It is also one of the most common questions I see while socially networking. There are three basic underlying concepts 1. Producing a print version of your book 2. Dealing with the size of your production budget 3. Producing a manuscript which can be easily formatted Let's take the first concept: Many new self-publishing authors believe that they do not need a print version. Most eventually want a printed copy to give to friends, an excellent reviewer, or in giveaway promotions. Let's get it out in the open: Preparing a print version of your book in Word or any other word processor is virtually impossible There are some good resources. But, you do not want the help of a Word user, untrained in graphic design, formatting your book. They may get it working, but the professionalism needed to earn reader trust will not be there. The best way if you must use Word] is to buy a Word template from a book designer you trust. How much do you want to spend on ebook production? This is important to consider. Many writers will tell you about the thousands of dollars needed to publish a book. Guy Kawasaki in APE talks about four to five thousand dollars, and he is doing all the production himself. Many of us do not have nearly those resources. Without money, it will take time. Publishing a book is an immensely complex project. The skillsets needed are large, and require practice and experience. My contention is that, with study and practice, you can publish your books for free. Your only costs will be a small monthly fee for your software plus online access. In addition, you will need to learn a lot about an industry which is relatively unknown to the general public: publishing. Some of the skill sets needed 1. Writing 2. Editing & proofing 3. Typography 4. Cover design 5. Print requirements: high quality, high resolution 6. Proper formatting for uploading 7. Book marketing: content, genre, & niche 8. Online social networking One of them is an area you can learn by yourself-easily. That is typography. I'm getting ready to release a small book to help you learn the basics of typography, plus covering some of what can be done with Word. You will quickly discover that many of the core typographic issues cannot be accomplished in Word or any other word processor. Professional book design requires InDesign InDesign and QuarkXPress] are really the only software applications which are developed for professional designers. These applications are designed to do skill sets two through six in the list above. Because they are designed to produce this work, they do it better, faster, and much more efficiently. For book design, nothing is better than InDesign. It handles skill sets one through seven because it includes a built-in word processor]. The key skill, virtually unknown outside of graphic design, is how to present the words so they can be read effortlessly and easily understood. There is a basic level of competency which must be reached. For professional book production, you need to understand the core of professional book design: typography. That is the purpose of this book. It will teach you the basics you need to be able to use in a professional Word template, to give your manuscript to a trained book designer, or to produce it yourself. I've written other, far more detailed books which cover the entire process. My goal is to save you money and time You can pay an copyeditor to clean up the writing for you, but that can easily cost $300 to a couple thousand dollars. It still will not help solve the typographic requirements which enable you to give your readers an enjoyable reading experience. At present, I publish several books a year. My only expenses are what I pay for online access. You can learn how to do that al

End the confusion God's people have been sold a bill of goods. If you think about it at all, evolution could not be true. If this young earth is really billions of years old, then God is a liar. You know that isn't true. This book tells the tale of God's creation lovingly, by a man who only recently came to his senses. It had been obvious when he visited the Grand Canyon that this hadn't happened over countless millennia. It had happened quickly with a massive flood of water. God made man. We didn't come from apes. The first two chapters of Genesis make excellent scientific sense when you understand how God did it and why He did it in the order it was done. It's amazing how clear it is when a believer explains how it works. Join David on a glorious trip through the 7,000 years of creation. Yes, there is only one millennium left for this one. Then this training place is dissolved in fire and replaced with what we commonly call heaven. God calls it a new creation. Rejoice in the glory of what He has done for us

The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to heart: and devout, merciful people are taken away, no one understanding that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come Isaiah 57:1] Here begins a tale of wonder as the plans of the Lord are revealed to a church which had not considered the wisdom and complexity of God's love for us. We are asked to open our hearts and minds to accept the very real possibility that Jesus meant what He said by telling us that no one knows the day nor the hour. All we need to do is remember how the religious of the day missed it when Jesus came to the manger. In fact, as you know, few figured it out until after He had risen back to be with the Father. It may look outrageous, but it's possible We must be open to the very real possibility that we really do not know how it's going to happen. We only know that the King is coming soon

When it comes to book production, InDesign is your best tool for graphic production. Even Photoshop are commonly put in a special graphic container produced in InDesign, exported as a PDF, and then placed into the book. InDesign is the best graphics tool for book production
This book, which is an updated excerpt from David's two best sellers "Writing In InDesign" and "Practical, Professional Self-Publishing Handbook," show book designers how to use InDesign effectively and efficiently for the graphic production needed for their book designs.
It covers formats needed and ebook requirements, the use of object styles, basic drawing techniques, and so on. The book is in full-color, because most books sold are now ebooks in full color.
David has been self-publishing books since the mid-1990s and was a very early adopter of Lulu, then Createspace, then Kindle KDP, Scribd, Nook, Kobo, and Smashwords. Few writers have the breadth of experience is the new paradigm of self-published indie authors.
This book will help you.

Learning how to teach scripture with power Bible studies are a primary and often the best way to introduce someone to knowledge of the Lord. Though it is true that only the Holy Spirit can bring a person to repentance and salvation, it is also true that the scriptures are inspired by God and useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. They correct us when we are wrong and teach us to do what is right. Though it is true that the Bible does not save us. It is one of the best ways to lead a person into enough knowledge about the Lord so that they wish to know the Lord Jesus personally. Jesus saves-only Jesus. But He also anointed the writers of the Bible to give us the truth about creation, humanity, and divinity. This book shares nearly forty years of experience in leading Bible studies to you. It shows you how to proceed so that the Holy Spirit can actually lead your Bible study. This is the only way you can actually be used to transform people's lives. We have no power in ourselves except for the power of God which lives in us. You need to learn to tap that power-allowing it to flow through you to touch people and transform their lives. The power is in the Lord. Learn to teach the bible with the power to transform lives This book has tips and techniques from a man who has been focused on teaching scripture for almost 40 years. This is not some wimpy guide, but practical instuction on how to allow the Holy Spirit to transform your Bible study into a tool to help your students grow spiritually beyond what they ever expected. These techniques will change lives including yours as the teacher].

This book is direct and to the point. In it we share a word the church does not want to hear in this modern age of political correctness. But we really need to consider the implications. "You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it." Matthew 7:13-14 NLT] We must start with the narrowness. Many people are made nervous by this. It is obvious that most pastors and priests are. How can you build a church by telling the people things like this? It is not good to talk about exclusiveness. This is certainly part of the narrowness of the gate. In modern America this is where we get into trouble very quickly from the PC media police. Jesus could not have made it more clear. This aspect of the narrowness is made clear by many things he said. If you are into the words of Jesus typeset in red ink-these are in red. He lays it out boldly-in a way that cannot be ignored. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved." John 10:9 NLT] However, it is obvious to us all that today many local church pastors have trouble saying that Jesus is the gate, the door to the life abundant. It is commonly not preached because the whole approach sounds a bit narrow-minded. But it is much stronger than that. As you will see in this book, many powerful, active church members will find themselves outside with no way to enter heaven. You need to read this book.