So I thought I'd ask several
of our typesetters on Reedsy a simple question: Is the importance of «typesetting» being underestimated, and why?
As the granddaughter
of a typesetter who worked before the advent of computers, I can assure Scott that the wrong end of the...
I can't imagine that most readers are looking for anything else, so to get hung up on it seems like trying to appeal to a small percentage
of typesetter fetishists.
Would appear you know something
of the typesetter's world.
Not exact matches
Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance
of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives
of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a
typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom
of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear
of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.
Can you imagine God's creation
of the world as a sort
of book set in type by the printer; everything is in the right place and makes good sense when one reads it; and then while the
typesetter is gone, a scoundrel confuses the type.
Will you accuse the
typesetter of setting up a madman's book?
He was a
typesetter for 20 years at American Typesetting Co. in Chicago and then at J.M. Bundscho Typographer Co.
of Chicago for 17 years until his retirement in 1991, his wife, Joan Grabarek, said.
As well as the core tasks
of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal
of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers,
typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progress.
They are assigned to an issue
of the journal, go back to the
typesetter to have proof corrections made, and eventually go to press.
* FAO
typesetter: short form
of title: Non-native speakers
of English in the classroom
If you're working in - house, then, you can simply ask
typesetters to deliver ebook files in addition to print - ready files at the end
of the pre-press process.
In the poor indie's case, the
typesetter sometimes crammed a lot
of words on a line, indicating a tracking
of -20 % or more.
I could bore you with the history
of the em and talk about the old days when
typesetters like myself would work with lead characters, but to make things easy for you, simply think
of one em as the space taken up by the character M.
Companies that simply print and / or distribute your book (either electronically or physically) provide a vital service to self - publishers, as do freelance editors,
typesetters, indexers, and marketers, but none
of these services is themselves the publisher.
I know you'd have to pay someone, but it could be 6 - 8 hours
of your time in order to get things the way Amazon requires while a Fiverr
typesetter would do it in less time and you could use that time to work on your book marketing strategy.
My technical penchant, as well as my background as a
typesetter, were also the reason why I focussed on the technical aspects
of eBooks and wrote extensively about it.
Automated pagination in existing ereaders ignores quite a few details that print
typesetters pay a lot
of attention to.
One world Publications have used Siliconchips as one
of our main
typesetters (both for print and ebooks) for a number
of years, and we have always found their service to be excellent, professional, accurate and fast.
If any additional proofing errors have arisen during the checking
of your eBook, make sure your
typesetter adds the corrections to your paperback interior as well.
We've laid out each part
of the process in logical steps for the new designer and
typesetter.
«The Publisher» pays most
of that to the editor, the cover artist, proofreader, the
typesetter, and so forth.
The rest
of the average $ 7.95 cost
of a paperback goes to the author, the editor, the publicist, the cover artist, the
typesetter, and
of course the bookseller needs his cut too, regardless
of whether it is an e-book seller or a paper book seller.
This requires a special skill set, different from an editor's, because a good
typesetter is absolutely dictionary proof, which means he has internalized the correct spelling and exact meaning
of roughly 500,000 words, plus all
of their proper tenses, inflections and cases.
I certainly won't fault anybody for paying a professional
typesetter to do that (I probably COULD do it myself but whether I really want to take the time when I get to the point
of being ready for print... that remains to be seen).
I have looked at Vallum and wanted to know whether you have used this for the page design / typeset
of your print book to generate print - ready pdf files for printers especially as the amount I paid the
typesetter is the same price as the product (yikes... can't keep doing that).
To make a piece
of writing truly unique, working with a book interior designer (or
typesetter) can make a real difference.
I am a copyeditor and a
typesetter of print books, and have been editing and typesetting (using InDesign) for more than six years.
Adept Content Solutions has a large network
of experienced translators, project managers, editors, proofreaders, indexers,
typesetters, and programmers that assist our team to deliver elegant results.
I enjoy the writing, not so much the editing and business end
of finding a copy editor or a graphic artist for covers or a
typesetter to upload docs.
We have spec'd type for hot metal and written style sheets for computer
typesetters, and we were there at the beginning
of desktop.
As a freelance book designer and
typesetter (non-fiction and academic) for the past 30 years, I've become acutely sensitive to the nuances each publisher brings to the puzzling art
of page makeup.
Our skilled Book compositor and
typesetters will create a formatted print layout design for the theme and genre
of your Book.
Given the low profit you make on an individual book and the quantity you have to sell to break even, it's difficult to justify the costs
of editors,
typesetters, and cover designers.
I became a one - person art department [with the help
of a 110 - word - per - minute
typesetter].
With over 250
of Tezuka Productions» works untapped to the rest
of the manga reading world, it's the Digital Manga Guild's privilege, pride and joy to be able to undertake this huge localization task and to help fulfill every manga translator, editor, and
typesetter's dream to work on such high profile projects.
Most
of us have to also be programmers, book cover artists,
typesetters, and indeed specialists in everything.
Of course, it's hard for an author, publisher, or even a reader to perceive a
typesetter's work, but that's actually the point: type is not meant to be noticed, it is meant to subliminally enhance the reader's experience, and even create a subconscious atmosphere for the story.
I'd bet that the Pratchett / Snuff typo was the result
of using an optional hyphenation code or a non-breaking space or something equally silly; installed by a lazy
typesetter to fix a run in a dead tree edition, missed when generating the output epub because it was (a) standards compliant (i.e. used the right character codeset), (b) invisible to the naked eye when previewing the DTP file on screen, and (c) the epub reader they looked at the file in didn't have the same bug as Amazon's file filter and displayed it correctly.
I think authors should study grammar enough to do that mundane job on their own, or run their work past a person who has a sound grip on that subject so that those kinds
of mistakes are eliminated for the
typesetters.
They can't simply send a Word doc to a
typesetter (or page compositor), they have to create XML files and have to either pay new employees to do this or job it out to another company, they need to invest in technology or pay new vendors to create mobi, epub, and all sorts
of different files used by different e-book sellers.
In this stage, which occurs towards the end
of book production, the
typesetter arranges the book's interior to create the best reading experience.
Born in Dublin, Scully was raised in a working - class district
of South London where he apprenticed as a
typesetter at a commercial printing shop.
At age fifteen, he apprenticed as a
typesetter at a commercial printing shop and has retained a love
of printmaking ever since.
Ernst integrates and bridges the two major influences
of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, infused with the painstaking detail he learned as a
typesetter.
Outside
of the initial partners, the need for secretaries,
typesetters, paralegals, and experts may be needed.
Coordinated the printing
of financial reports with Advisers, Legal, Auditors,
Typesetters and printers.
The Production department is responsible for coordinating the production and manufacturing
of each book: making a schedule, trafficking materials between design and editorial / managing editorial, estimating costs, creating purchase orders and communicating with
typesetters and printers.
Displays
of objects in
typesetters» trays and carefully arranged framed pictures bring even more interest.