April 1, 2010
Everybody’s formatting, but nobody’s styling. And that’s my problem. You see, I get files from authors all the time. I get the files while the book’s being editing, and I use those to make estimates and do design samples. After editing is finished, I get the final files to import into the layout to create [...]
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January 19, 2010
I’ve been seeing a lot of the books self-publishers are producing on their own. Most of these books are “typeset” with Microsoft Word or another word processing program. The problem is that these programs are the direct descendents of typewriters, not typesetting systems. They were originally meant to mimic the “look and feel” of the [...]
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