On Friday 22 March 2002 09:15, sda wrote: > As someone involved in publishing - not many pre-press shops will > accept raw .ps files from a client. Pre-press systems are so > complicated now days, that usually files should be in the accepted > publishing standard apps, <ie> FrameMaker, Quark, InDesign or PDF. > Files are "flightchecked" to ensure quality and acceptability for > the publishers pre-press systems. Anything else submitted will > drive the costs for the client up considerably. The one indication > that this must be a small shop is the fact they accept M$ > publisher. Anybody with publishing experience would rather accept > raw LaTex then M$ publisher. TeX/LaTex is not an accepted standard > in the industry only amongst academics. The older typsetters whom > have extensive experience in TeX, would never go back now that the > true WYSIWYG apps like the above are available. Unfortunately > nothing in the Linux world is adequate for print publishing and/or > layout.
A question - why wouldn't publishers who accept PDF not accept PS, since all they have to do is run pstopdf on it? Is there a difference between PDF files generated in this way and those produced by other apps? Robin -- "Give me the views, and I'll give you the arguments." - Chrysippus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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