This is something which is dependent on: - your printer - the size of the press - the available paper sizes - the capacity of the folding equipment - the optimal signature size
and of course the desired format for the design. The best thing to do in the absence of specific instructions is to begin w/ a commercial book format which is common / widespread and the quality and production values of which match the desired finished product --- mimic that. At least you'll know that the book is commercially feasible to produce. Alternately, look up self-publishing books / techniques and match the book format / design to one of those. William On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:29 PM, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > hi > > On 19/09/16 16:11, Patrick wrote: > >> Hi Everyone >> >> This is my first post here. I am just getting started with Scribus. I am >> creating a dictionary of sorts for children that will have a child >> friendly respelling system so that they will know how to pronounce a word. >> >> I can probably use a variety of page sizes. I have reached out to >> printers in my local area to try and find out what is common and >> therefor cheap. >> >> It looks like Scribus defaults to A4. Would A4, 2 fold be the most >> common ? Are there other sizes that are more common? If this was A4, I >> would estimate a fairly large book, around 500 pages as the respelling >> system I have, takes up a great deal of space vs the adult versions such >> as IPA(international phonetic alphabet). >> >> Thanks for reading my post-Patrick >> > > you correctly want to find out what is the most common size in your area... > > but when you're asking for our help, you're not saying in which area you > are :-) > > and it also depends on the type of book you want to produce and how you > will print it. > > anyway, afaik the DIN A format is not always in use for books... even > outside of the US... but it depends much on the type of book... > > ciao > a.l.e > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20160919/295cda5d/attachment.html>
