Sorry for the delay, Lorn. I don't know how Word XP handles that task (it's a version I don't have--I have word 2007); I THINK open office will kern those files. In any event, the latest version of OO is later than Word. Sorry I don't have all the information you need. Steve.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:19 PM, LORN MACINTYRE < lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> 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/e16f14ab/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/20110108/07e2040e/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/20110109/9b118b2c/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/20110109/907f7dc9/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/20110109/8d11155b/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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