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From: Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 06:47:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727064740.0712cfe4@atipa.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040727061509.GB17632@swordfish>

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:15:09 -0600
Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote:

> > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile
> > simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be
> > the paper size. Easy. 
> 
> You're referring to just the interior, right? I would think that
> covers have to have a bit of bleed, no?

For the front and back covers I've just used the interior paper size.
Given a page count the printer specifies the spine width, and perhaps
they allow a little exapansion there?

For the cover I create a single PDF file with the panels joined as so:

    back|spine|front

-Bill
-- 
Sattre Press                                      Pagan Papers
http://sattre-press.com/                    by Kenneth Grahame
info@sattre-press.com          http://sattre-press.com/pp.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-24 19:41 ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses Matt Gushee
2004-07-24 20:21 ` Bill McClain
2004-07-24 20:25   ` Siep Kroonenberg
2004-07-25  9:57 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-07-25 10:01 ` Mats Broberg
2004-07-25 11:58   ` Adam Lindsay
2004-07-25 12:03     ` Mats Broberg
2004-07-27  6:15       ` ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks! Matt Gushee
2004-07-27  6:33         ` Brooks Moses
2004-07-27  9:27           ` Siep Kroonenberg
2004-07-27 11:53           ` George N. White III
2004-07-27 15:28             ` Downsampling images in pdfTeX Mats Broberg
2004-07-27 17:47               ` George N. White III
2004-07-27 19:36                 ` Vit Zyka
2004-07-28 15:54                 ` Peter Münster
2004-07-27  7:36         ` ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks! Tobias Hilbricht
2004-07-27 11:47         ` Bill McClain [this message]
2004-07-27 15:51         ` Mats Broberg

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