Re: Transfer from Ovation Pro to TechWriter

In message <4dbefdee11dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
David H Wild <dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4dbef6b489ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Alan Griffin <ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I can transfer it into Ovation Pro and then, using RiScript, turn it
> > > into PDF files which can be read on other platforms. If some publisher
> > > wants to buy his book PDF won't be sufficient;
>
> > I have just had a book of 120 pages of colour photos + text
> > published. It was written in Impression, printed as Postscript files and
> > turned into PDF files with ps2pdf. The printing firm did not seem to have
> > any problems with the PDF files.
>
> It's not the printer that bothers me; if my friend were to publish it
> himself that would probably be the best way to go. He hopes, though, to
> persuade a publisher to take it on, and publishers worry about things like
> House Style, and would want to be able to edit it.
>

A perennial set of problems. It depends on what the publisher is using.

At the PC end Word is just NOT suitable for serious publishing. However,
applications such as Pagemaker and LaTeX (the latter also found on RiscOS)
are.

First possibility is:

OvPro via PS and Riscript to PDF (I seem to remember some problems with
ps2pdf but stand to be corrected). Otherwise print via UniPrint to Adobe
Acrobat distiller to obtain PDF.

PDF can be loaded into Pagemaker, and presumably into InDesign (which is
increasingly used instead of Quark) on the Mac.

But the possibility here is for someone enterprising enough to write an
application to enable direct output to Tex format. Maybe from OvPro? We
need some sort of "glue" here. LaTeX will take images in EPS format, and DPs
image scanner can do that conversion (perhaps other applications also).

But if your printer is happy with the pre-print PDF straight from OvPro for
image setting, so much the better for our platform. A dialogue with the
publisher may be necessary if your friend is prepared to try all the exacting
typesetting work (and publisher/printers can be very finicky) to achieve
anywhere near house style. Remember this can mean specification of anything
from fonts to fancy headers. The publisher may not be happy even with the
way an alien application hyphenates, or does uneven columns, or math
equations, or colour separations.

I believe publishing is still an area where RiscOS can give very acceptable
results with some tweaking and minor changes to the applications we have.


--
Ian Fitzgerald
ianf at ozemail dot com dot au
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