Re: Transfer from Ovation Pro to TechWriter

"Chris Joseph" <chrisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> David H Wild <dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> But the publishing industry uses PDFs quite widely, and publishing
> companies therefore tend to have copies of Acrobat, which means that
> they can edit PDFs quite easily.

Whilst it is true that you can edit things, it might as well not be for
something of this nature. Even trying to do trivial things like removing a
couple of words is a nightmare as the following text will not reformat
itself.
My recommendation for the transition from OvPro would probably to download
the Windows versions, then simply copy/paste out to Word. I've not tried
this, but I'd expect the basic formatting to be preserved.


> So it isn't a problem unless you're
> dealing with a small publisher that uses a funny format. (Quark is
> Express the most common funny program, in this context, but most people
> who use that will have no problems with PDF.)

Nowadays Quark has lost the dominance it previously had (generally
attributed to their messing around with versions when OSX was released) and
Adobe InDesign is (in my opinion) a far better (and cheaper) product.
When I used to have to request technical articles from various authors to
be included in our publications, I used to ask for Microsoft Word format
where possible. This may seem somewhat perverse, but it was generally
something that the author could do simply (99% of articles were written
there), and then process for me to extract the information out was purely a
matter of copy, paste, edit, reformat.


R.


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