From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15788 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:25:04 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040724202504.GA9909@muisje> References: <20040724194138.GG18318@swordfish> <20040724152139.36ca8b80@atipa.local> Reply-To: Siep Kroonenberg , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090704541 13517 80.91.224.253 (24 Jul 2004 21:29:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jul 24 23:28:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BoU4a-0002lR-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED49C12777; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:28:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21283-07; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:28:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7312312772; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:25:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B9412772 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:25:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21251-06-2 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:25:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from dep.oprit.rug.nl (unknown [129.125.36.9]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276491276F for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:25:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl (GN-HE001-COM03-200-159.kabela.oprit.rug.nl [129.125.200.159]) by dep.oprit.rug.nl (8.12.10.Beta2/8.12.10.Beta2) with SMTP id i6OLPOS1000129; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:25:24 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:25:04 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040724152139.36ca8b80@atipa.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15788 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15788 On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:41:38 -0600 > Matt Gushee wrote: > > > I am planning to publish a book that is typeset using ConTeXt, and > > very soon I am going to start contacting printers for estimates. Given > > that a shop prints from PDF files, does it matter that the PDFs are > > produced by ConTeXt? > > This has all been for digital printing and perfect-bound paperbacks. I > would like to know if an offset press generating folded and gathered > signatures takes the same pdf input. And where to go for sewn hardcovers > in small quantities and short run leatherbound books for "collector's > editions." I haven't explored those issues yet but will do so > eventually. > > -Bill The printshops that I dealt with were capable of imposing normally paginated pdfs into signatures for offset printing. I've never done imposition myself. -- Siep Kroonenberg