-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21/06/12 21:12, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > > > 2012/6/21 Rainer M Krug <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> The editorial work was done with free software in Linux Kubuntu. >> > > Very nice - could you possibly elaborate a bit which programs you used for > what? > > > > > Of course he usual suspects: GIMP for image manipulation, LibreOffice for > recieving and > communicating with the authors early on, none of them used LaTeX/LyX. In the > humanities it is > common to recieve papers written in 20+ year old word processors and LibO is > very good to open > and convert such nasty things. I converted all files to plain text and > imported them to LyX. I > tested some conversion tools from LibO to LaTeX, but I think it is faster to > use plain .txt. Of > course this depends on the kind of papers, quality of the text, kind of > publication and so on. > > PDFMod is a very good program to manipulate and split PDF-files. Very useful > to extract each > paper when sending the papers back to authors. > > KDE may be somewhat heavy and perhaps not my favourite desktop environment, > but it has several > very useful scripts for Dolphin accessible from the right click menu. The > scripts handle > manipulating PDF:s, conversion of images and textfiles. Very useful things > when producing a > book and as a scholar in the humanities I am able to remember just a limited > number of terminal > commands. These scripts have saved me many hours and I do recommend KDE for > heavy work. > > In the end I had to make a Postscript file and this was the only hickup. I > could not produce > the ps file in Linux but everything worked perfectly in Windows. I still > don't know what went > wrong in Linux, but I'll have another look on it now when I have no dead line > and send a bug > report if applicable. > > The ps file was converted to PDF in Adobe Distiller (another Windows victory) > with the settings > of the printing house. > > The printing house had never heard about LaTeX and is heavily entrenched in > Adobes software. > Still they accepted my PDF right off and our cooperation was very smooth. I > think that they > were surprised and impressed when I told them that the book had been made in > Linux with free > software that doesn't cost a single krona (Swedish coin). > > The cover was made by a specialist in InDesign and thus not produced in > Linux. I think it is > hard to replace InDesign for this, since the printing house expects an open > InDesign file for > final adjustments. > > I have typeset several academic books in InDesign before, but I must say that > the process is > simpler and with fewer hurdles in LaTeX and especially in LyX, despite the > fact that I am still > learning the program. This was my second book project in LyX. Nowadays I do > all my writing in > LyX and only use LibO Writer when I have to submit papers in word processor > format. > > My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and that > more printing > houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer support and advice.
Thanks for the list of tools and how you used them together - very useful reading. It is effectively the same tools I use, only that I use pdftk instead of PDFMod. Thanks a lot, Rainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/kHLgACgkQoYgNqgF2egqNJwCfRs7cyKkzCx8UeO/3saF54h1m s6UAn0tVHcnWl1CGxNEqTQQXLzbQsl0a =K6ko -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
