2011/9/27 Richard Heck <[email protected]> > On 09/27/2011 11:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I thought there was somewhere on the wiki that people listed their > >> LyX-created books and linked to them, but I can't find it now.... > >> > > This page [1], I guess. > > Liviu > > > > [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications > > > Someone, not necessarily you, should probably re-organize this, dividing > it (at least) into books versus articles. The number of articles written > with LyX must be astronomical; the number of books, especially books > actually printed from LyX-generated PDFs, must be much smaller. > > Richard > > > Actually my biggest problem was that the PDF:s produced by LyX were impossible to use for the printing. I had to make a postscript file in LyX and convert it in Adobe Distiller to PDF with the printing house's settings. I suppose that it should be possible to have the correct settings directly in LyX, but it was too much trouble and since the printing house never had heard of LyX or LaTeX they could not assist me. The whole printing industry uses Adobe's software.
I think that a guide on how to make prepress originals directly in LyX would be great, but perhaps very hard to write, since all printing houses use their own prepress settings. The documentation is poor and very advanced when one scouts EPS2PDF, Ghostscript and other programs used behind the scene.
