On Sunday 09 January 2011 17:19:32 LORN MACINTYRE wrote: > Dear Steve, > > Again, thank you for your help. Will I be able to perform design > functions such as kerning to print quality in Word XP before > transferring the files into PDF format? Or should I bring the files > into OpenOffice and edit them there? > > Regards, > Lorn > > > > > ________________________________ > From: S B <sbinsandiego at gmail.com> > To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Sent: Sunday, 9 January, 2011 21:04:18 > Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories > > Lorn, I've not tried this with Word, but quite a bit depends on > what pdf creator you are using. Are you using adobe acrobat? If > so, that provides great control. If not, it should be fairly > simple using one of the "cheap," or "Free" products. Open Office > will also convert to PDF in its latest iteration, and Word '07 (and > doubtless later) also saves to PDF. If you can, I'd leave it in > Word, and convert from there. If your novel doesn't include > illustrations, it will probably be easier to do. I think that if > you want to do this for free, you'll be happiest bringing it into > Open Office and then converting from there. You may wish to > contact your printer and make sure that there are no differences he > can't handle. As far as the crop marks and embedded fonts, > normally you can choose to embed the fonts when you save or convert > (whichever), and the crop marks--I'm not sure; normally if I save > and tell the program to retain crop marks, I can then see them on > the page, in gray. CMYK? "K" is black. Do you have anything BUT > black? If you have illustrations, you have a choice between CMYK > and RGB, normally. You may want to search Microsoft's knowledge > base, and your help files, to be certain you're doing this > correctly. I'm happy to help in any other way I can, but I'm not > certain I know enough to provide accurate information. Good luck. > Steve B. > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, LORN MACINTYRE < > > lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> wrote: > > Dear Steve, > > > > Thank you for this valuable advice. I have 20 chapters (240 > > pages) of text formatted with running headline and page number > > footers, written in Word > > XP. So how may I turn these into PDF files which can be > > commercially printed, > > with the printer's instructions thus: "one single file set up in > > page order (excluding the cover or jacket, saved as single page > > to view and not as double > > page spreads., with fonts embedded, with crop marks selected so > > we know where to > > trim your text once it is printed. Minimu 10mm clear white space > > on all sides. > > Ensure that you are using CMYK workflow." > > > > Regards, > > Lorn > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: S B <sbinsandiego at gmail.com> > > To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > > Sent: Saturday, 8 January, 2011 23:11:04 > > Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories > > > > Lorn, I have not used Scribus for this purpose, but I used it for > > preparing lessons for a class in church some time ago. It works > > very very well for that. This is a similar applications, because > > the lessons I taught were each fairly short, but the aggregate > > was fairly long. I didn't use any sophisticated formatting, but > > I did use lots of illustrations and drawings. It works well for > > that. I can't give you guidance as to the processes, because I > > actually WROTE the documents in Scribus rather than in a > > word-processor. I guess I wonder why you would use Scribus as > > the formatter > > and not just use the word processing program. I know that many > > novels have been created in Word or Open Office (and other word > > processors), so it does interest me. I have a couple nonfiction > > books I've been working on that I did in Word, and that worked > > out quite well, and it was easy to do. Steve Bradley > > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, LORN MACINTYRE < > > > > lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> wrote: > > > I am endeavouring to use Scribus in order to edit a novel of 20 > > > chapters, importing the files from Microsoft Word via > > > OpenOffice in order to > > > > preserve > > > > > the > > > formatting. There seems to be little information on the web > > > about this > > > > type > > > > > of > > > project, so it would be good to hear from subscribers who have > > > already > > > > done > > > > > this > > > for a novel or short story collection, so that I can profit > > > from their experience and perhaps eventually put together a > > > step-by-step process > > > > which > > > > > will > > > help other writers and save time and frustration with regard to > > > font choices, > > > kerning, etc. > > > > > > > > > Thanks in anticipation, > > > Scottie > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > > URL: < > > > >http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110105/e > >16f14ab/attachment.htm m > > > > >m > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > scribus mailing list > > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > < > >http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110108/0 > >7e2040e/attachment.htm m > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > >http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110109/9 > >b118b2c/attachment.htm m > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110109/9 >07f7dc9/attachment.htm> > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110109/8 >d11155b/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Although Scribus is not ideal for running heads etc. if it were my project (and I didn't want to use pdftex for some reason) I would start from the raw text in Scribus, setting up master pages left and right with running heads, page numbers, linked text frames on each page and so on. Then I would import raw text. With proper typesetting you don't need to use kerning in body text. Scribus has that capability but there are more elegant and less tedious solutions. I have examples of TeX, OO Writer and Scribus text for a novel here: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/compare.pdf Unfortunately I don't have MSWord or InDesign so I can't add examples for those products. But you can run up your own sample in MSWord and compare it to the others. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
