Thanks Ale, Thanks William and thanks Gregory and Peter ! Lots of helpful suggestions here :)
I am in Canada, near Toronto, Ontario. I have measured books that look to be about the right size. 9" X 7" would be a good size. I heard back from one printing company that I have worked with. They said these sizes are common: 8.5" x 5.5" 8.5" x 11" 9" x 12" Now that I think about it, I agree with Greg, A4 is too big so letter is out and 9"X12" even more so. 8.5" X 5.5" would be too small. I will keep shopping around. Peter's links are excellent and I have read these guides and will contact the suppliers mentioned in these articles. Several of their common sizes look perfect. I think I can use 9"X7" +/- 1/2 an inch so there are lots of options. Thanks again everyone, hopefully I will be able to Answer questions about Scribus in a few months and pay the list back ! -Patrick On 09/19/2016 12:45 PM, William Adams wrote: > 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> > ___ > 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 >
