Sorry for the delay, Lorn. <div>I don't know how Word XP handles that task (it's a version I don't have--I have word 2007); I THINK open office will kern those files. In any event, the latest version of OO is later than Word. </div>
<div>Sorry I don't have all the information you need.</div><div>Steve.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:19 PM, LORN MACINTYRE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com">lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear Steve,<br>
<br>
Again, thank you for your help. Will I be able to perform design functions such<br>
as kerning to print quality in Word XP before transferring the files into PDF<br>
format? Or should I bring the files into OpenOffice and edit them there?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Regards,<br>
Lorn<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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From: S B <<a href="mailto:sbinsandiego@gmail.com">sbinsandiego@gmail.com</a>><br>
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</div>Sent: Sunday, 9 January, 2011 21:04:18<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories<br>
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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>
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On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, LORN MACINTYRE <<br>
<a href="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com">lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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">sbinsandiego@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> 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">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>
> > the<br>
> > formatting. There seems to be little information on the web about this<br>
> type<br>
> > of<br>
> > project, so it would be good to hear from subscribers who have already<br>
> done<br>
> > this<br>
> > for a novel or short story collection, so that I can profit from their<br>
> > experience and perhaps eventually put together a step-by-step process<br>
> which<br>
> > will<br>
> > help other writers and save time and frustration with regard to font<br>
> > choices,<br>
> > kerning, etc.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks in anticipation,<br>
> > Scottie<br>
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