[OT] publishing formats

From: Benjamin Cramer (truempyi@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 21:47:57 AEST


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:40:11 -0500, Ted Goranson, tedg@SIRIUS-BETA.COM, wrote:

>>  >You can't
>>  >use *any* program as a story editor in Quark -- not without
>>  >re-placing the story. And Quark is the page layout program
>>  >real publishers use.
>>
>>SOME real publishers use. Lots of real publishers use PM. Lots of real
>>publishers use both. Some quite unreal publishers use PM or both!
>
>The publishers I've worked with use FrameMaker. But that world is
>going to PDF. Supply PDF with CMYK trapping and you're set.
>
>Best, Ted
>


PDF???  Why don't they just take postscript files?  Much less subject to
operator error when creating them (I've gotten more than a few PDF files
with all the graphics downsampled to 72 dpi).

Ben


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