> One question that I wanted to ask guys into publishing in this list. How > far does a PDF go into helping typesetting people? I mean yesterday I > created a small ad in Openoffice for some occasion and exported it into > PDF. I was of the impression that this was the input that the printing > press people need. However, when I talked with the press guy (albeit a > real small timer), he insisted on scanning a printout of the same, or a > pagemaker document. Is it just this guys lack of knowledge or does PDFs > only helps big time publishing houses?
This guy appears to be too small to know about PDF. He's probably the kind of guy who believes "DTP" is synonymous with "Pagemaker", and "computer" is synonymous with "Windows." I've seen slightly larger publishing and printing houses (those big enough to do books and magazines, not just flyers) totally dependent on Postscript, and now PDF. They actually buy Postscript fonts costing lots of money, and do all their page composition and galley proofs using high-end Postscript engines, and distinguish between Postscript fonts optimised for different printing engines (high speed printing presses and your "heavy duty" HP laser printer will need different optimised versions of fonts to get the same image), and so on. Quite a few of them use Macs for the back-end work. And these guys never use PageMaker on Windows. Many of them use Quark Express, some use Frame Maker, etc. Shuvam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
