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<DIV>Again, thank you for your help. Will I be able to perform design functions such as kerning to print quality in Word XP before transferring the files into PDF format? Or should I bring the files into OpenOffice and edit them there?</DIV>
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<DIV>Lorn <BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> S B <sbinsandiego@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Scribus User Mailing List <scribus@lists.scribus.info><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, 9 January, 2011 21:04:18<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories<BR></FONT><BR>Lorn, I've not tried this with Word, but quite a bit depends on what pdf<BR>creator you are using. Are you using adobe acrobat? If so, that provides<BR>great control. If not, it should be fairly simple using one of the "cheap,"<BR>or "Free" products. Open Office will also convert to PDF in its latest<BR>iteration, and Word '07 (and doubtless later) also saves to PDF. If you<BR>can, I'd leave it in Word, and convert from there. If your novel doesn't<BR>include illustrations, it will probably be easier to do. I think
that if you<BR>want to do this for free, you'll be happiest bringing it into Open Office<BR>and then converting from there. You may wish to contact your printer and<BR>make sure that there are no differences he can't handle. As far as the crop<BR>marks and embedded fonts, normally you can choose to embed the fonts when<BR>you save or convert (whichever), and the crop marks--I'm not sure; normally<BR>if I save and tell the program to retain crop marks, I can then see them on<BR>the page, in gray. CMYK? "K" is black. Do you have anything BUT black? If<BR>you have illustrations, you have a choice between CMYK and RGB, normally.<BR>You may want to search Microsoft's knowledge base, and your help files, to<BR>be certain you're doing this correctly. I'm happy to help in any other way I<BR>can, but I'm not certain I know enough to provide accurate information.<BR>Good luck.<BR>Steve B.<BR><BR>On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, LORN
MACINTYRE <<BR><A href="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com" ymailto="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com">lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> Dear Steve,<BR>><BR>> Thank you for this valuable advice. I have 20 chapters (240 pages) of<BR>> text formatted with running headline and page number footers, written in<BR>> Word<BR>> XP. So how may I turn these into PDF files which can be commercially<BR>> printed,<BR>> with the printer's instructions thus: "one single file set up in page order<BR>> (excluding the cover or jacket, saved as single page to view and not as<BR>> double<BR>> page spreads., with fonts embedded, with crop marks selected so we know<BR>> where to<BR>> trim your text once it is printed. Minimu 10mm clear white space on all<BR>> sides.<BR>> Ensure that you are using CMYK workflow."<BR>><BR>> Regards,<BR>> Lorn<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
________________________________<BR>> From: S B <<A href="mailto:sbinsandiego@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:sbinsandiego@gmail.com">sbinsandiego@gmail.com</A>><BR>> To: Scribus User Mailing List <<A href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.info" ymailto="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.info">scribus@lists.scribus.info</A>><BR>> Sent: Saturday, 8 January, 2011 23:11:04<BR>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories<BR>><BR>> Lorn, I have not used Scribus for this purpose, but I used it for preparing<BR>> lessons for a class in church some time ago. It works very very well for<BR>> that. This is a similar applications, because the lessons I taught were<BR>> each fairly short, but the aggregate was fairly long. I didn't use any<BR>> sophisticated formatting, but I did use lots of illustrations and drawings.<BR>> It works well for that. I can't give you guidance as to the
processes,<BR>> because I actually WROTE the documents in Scribus rather than in a<BR>> word-processor. I guess I wonder why you would use Scribus as the<BR>> formatter<BR>> and not just use the word processing program. I know that many novels have<BR>> been created in Word or Open Office (and other word processors), so it does<BR>> interest me. I have a couple nonfiction books I've been working on that I<BR>> did in Word, and that worked out quite well, and it was easy to do.<BR>> Steve Bradley<BR>><BR>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, LORN MACINTYRE <<BR>> <A href="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com" ymailto="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com">lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> > I am endeavouring to use Scribus in order to edit a novel of 20 chapters,<BR>> > importing the files from Microsoft Word via OpenOffice in order to<BR>> preserve<BR>> >
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