Sentences with phrase «typesetters use»

STOP the presses: Richard Woods writes in to correct Paul Allen's claim that typesetters used «mutt» and «nut» as seemingly useless guard words when discussing «em» or «en» sized lengths (15 July).

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The next step was to design letterhead and use it to apply for credit from printers, typesetters, paper suppliers, and such.

Example, the typesetter credited in the «Deathly Hallows» colophon shared what settings he used for laying out that book in InDesign.

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.

ISBN should not be used to identify files that only pass between publishers and typesetters or e-book conversion services, nor should it identify abstract entities such as textual works (content).

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.

Once you've fixed the inconsistencies, you can confidently send your manuscript into production — either by working with a typesetter, or using a free tool such as the

Once you've fixed the inconsistencies, you can confidently send your manuscript into production — either by working with a typesetter, or using a free tool such as the Reedsy Book Editor to export your ebook.

That said, to make it easier on your typesetter and to reduce your cost, I suggest you learn the basics when it comes to which are the best fonts to use in your book and which ones you should avoid at all cost.

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).

I am a copyeditor and a typesetter of print books, and have been editing and typesetting (using InDesign) for more than six years.

What publishers provided was access to important capital goods (printers, Adobe Indesign and other expensive tools) and the skills to use those goods (typesetters, Indesign designers, cover designers).

I used to be a typesetter in my spare time, so the books have beautiful drop initials in them.

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.

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.

I think editors and / or typesetters for the Magazine just decided to voice the information using their own little avatars.

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up... [more]

Even if judges used Multimarkdown to write judgments in plain text rather than Word, it would be a simple, consistent conversion process to HTML for CanLII and PDF, with professional typesetters (or even just CSS designers) worrying about double - spacing online or single - spacing in PDF, font choices, whitespace, etc..

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up to page in print trays, and then the presses rolled.

In the early 1980s, professional typesetters or electronic typewriters were used to create résumés and these documents were almost always more than one page in length.

Create Resume Claudia Wingate 100 Broadway LaneNew Parkland, CA, 91010Cell: [phone] [email protected] Professional Summary Detail oriented Typesetter and Graphic Design student skilled at producing printed material using the latest technology.