Using InDesign Manual 2025

An AWPC font is a TrueType font that is compatible with Walsworth’s yearbook printing processes. AWPC fonts are the only fonts not required to be submitted with yearbook page files. For your convenience, Walsworth supplies schools with more than 100 different font families that may be used on your yearbook pages. You can use any font that does not appear on Walsworth’s unsupported fonts list, located in the Installing Fonts section of The Process Manual (which can be found at yearbookhelp.com), provided you have purchased it and/or obtained the appropriate copyright permission. You must submit those on or before your first page deadline so they can be checked for reproduction quality. Because of the many ways fonts can be created, some downloadable Internet fonts or discount font collections may not correctly reproduce on our presses. For quality and cost reasons, we always recommend using AWPC fonts. Typically, you will want to choose only a few font families for your yearbook. Consistently using the same display and body fonts — fonts for headlines and copy respectively — will make reading your book easier. Decide on your fonts at the beginning of the year as part of your planning steps. Note that when you install the Walsworth Enhancements, AWPC Times and AWPC Helvetica font families are automatically installed as defaults. Any other AWPC font you want to use will have to be manually installed to your workstation. When you use AWPC fonts on your pages, they are automatically matched up when they get to Walsworth, making it unnecessary to send in the fonts with your page files. To see the Walsworth AWPC fonts, locate the AWPC Fonts PDF found in Yearbook Help or in the Yearbook Blueprint in your Planning Kit.

Disaster recovery Here is a scary thought: what happens to the yearbook files on the computer if the hard drive fails? Sometimes an experienced technician can recover the files, but in many cases, they are gone for good. Unless your school has installed an external backup device to each workstation, all files on a workstation are at risk. So, how do you protect all your hard work from possible disaster? The best course of action is to have a master WPCYB folder on a network server where, each day, you copy saved files out to the master folder. Your IT administrator likely will backup the server data files every night, ensuring your files are protected and recoverable. Note that while you can save and work on all your files directly from a network server, and many schools do so successfully, there is a small risk that a file could become corrupt. Also, should you decide to save your yearbook files directly to a server, do not delete the WPCYB folder from the workstation drives. These folders are required by the Walsworth Enhancements plug-in. Deletion of these folders will cause the Enhancement plug-in to fail.

Fonts In the early days of computer-generated text, fonts were limited and font images often looked pixelated, or like tiny blocks stacked to

look like a letter. As font technologies evolved, Apple, Inc. developed a scalable text-drawing process – vector font – which made the letters display and print the same. These types of fonts were later named TrueType fonts and they ushered in the power of desktop publishing software.

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