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December 3, 2009 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Typography: letter spacing vs word spacing in book typography #51118
Dwayne Harris
MemberHey Magenta–I'm in book publishing as well. And with your column width I don't see how you could have too many loose lines. I think 28p8 is very good.
I would definitely use the paragraph composer. And with that being said, I'd set your hyphenation for only one hyphen limit (two if worse comes to worse). Then slide the slider over to “less hyphenation.” I think it will definitely give you what you want.
I'm not sure what your H&Js are, but you can always tweak them. I usually use 80% minimum, 95% optimum, and 120% for maximum. Our clients don't like letterspacing or allow it, although we sometimes manually kern an entire paragraph with a -5 or so to pull a line back.
In any event–I would definitely use the paragraph composer. If you use single composer you'll be doing a lot of tweaking of lines and it will take you twice as long to do the job.
doc
MemberWhat OS? Any upgrades recently? Check and make sure you have the latest print drivers.
I'm off to check out your link and see what advice is.
doc
{EDIT: I went to the link and saw that your question was answered–it was an old driver}
MemberDave–apologies for going off topic, but why do the photos/pics open up in the wrong app? InDesign bug or Apple's? I never have any problems since I made sure artwork opened up in the correct app via the “get info” dialogue box.
{as an aside–I'm still getting that math thing}
doc
MemberWhat OS? Any upgrades recently? Check and make sure you have the latest print drivers.
I'm off to check out your link and see what advice is.
doc
{EDIT: I went to the link and saw that your question was answered–it was an old driver}
MemberDave–apologies for going off topic, but why do the photos/pics open up in the wrong app? InDesign bug or Apple's? I never have any problems since I made sure artwork opened up in the correct app via the “get info” dialogue box.
{as an aside–I'm still getting that math thing}
doc
MemberI'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on a Mac w/Snow Leopard (10.6.1). And I still get the math thing. For some reason I was logged out and had to log in. But I logged out again and logged back in and the math thing is still there.
As an aside, I have to figure out 2 + 4 :( :D
MemberI'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on a Mac w/Snow Leopard (10.6.1). And I still get the math thing. For some reason I was logged out and had to log in. But I logged out again and logged back in and the math thing is still there.
As an aside, I have to figure out 2 + 4 :( :D
MemberI remember years ago when true type was frowned upon, and a lot of that was about mixing and matching. And yup–it was in the mid-90s.
Bob–I remember those Syquest disks, and I hated those things. But they held more than a ZIP. But at the time, that was the technology. I also remember when our main work server was only a 4 gig hard drive and had 32 megs of ram. And we used virtual memory as well.
Didn't Bill Gates famously say that no one would ever need more than 4 megs of ram?
MemberWith the book publishers/printers we work with, we follow their standards and the pre-sets they have provided us. I think we can't go below 268 ppi, and even then it's frowned upon. They want at least 300.
MemberI remember years ago when true type was frowned upon, and a lot of that was about mixing and matching. And yup–it was in the mid-90s.
Bob–I remember those Syquest disks, and I hated those things. But they held more than a ZIP. But at the time, that was the technology. I also remember when our main work server was only a 4 gig hard drive and had 32 megs of ram. And we used virtual memory as well.
Didn't Bill Gates famously say that no one would ever need more than 4 megs of ram?
MemberWith the book publishers/printers we work with, we follow their standards and the pre-sets they have provided us. I think we can't go below 268 ppi, and even then it's frowned upon. They want at least 300.
MemberBob–I agree. I've only mainly used it when a true type was problematic and I made it postscript, or vice-versa.Or if I had a font and it was damaged and I had to fix. Or where I had the printer font, but missing the screen font.
I've seen a lot of good fonts that were switched over to OpenType, but it was basically the same as the Postscript. No added characters or anything. Just the manufacturer resaved it or converted to OpenType with no real benefit to the users.
As as an aside-in my field (book publishing), we don't have a choice so far as the fonts being used. The designers and authors decide what fonts are being used. I do, though, always recommend using the OpenType font if there is one for it.
Thanks for the reply and apologies to the OP for taking this off topic.
doc
MemberBob–While OpenType is definitely the way to go, there are still a lot of postscript fonts that have not been converted to OpenType. Any ideas of if it's okay to use something like Font XChange to convert? I was wondering if it may possible violate some rule some rules so far as the font manufacturers.
To the OP–I personally would keep the clean-up process in Word. I personally wrote a few macros and at my work they are installed on all the machines. There is no need for one person to clean up files. With the macros anyone can do it.
doc
MemberBob–I agree. I've only mainly used it when a true type was problematic and I made it postscript, or vice-versa.Or if I had a font and it was damaged and I had to fix. Or where I had the printer font, but missing the screen font.
I've seen a lot of good fonts that were switched over to OpenType, but it was basically the same as the Postscript. No added characters or anything. Just the manufacturer resaved it or converted to OpenType with no real benefit to the users.
As as an aside-in my field (book publishing), we don't have a choice so far as the fonts being used. The designers and authors decide what fonts are being used. I do, though, always recommend using the OpenType font if there is one for it.
Thanks for the reply and apologies to the OP for taking this off topic.
doc
MemberBob–While OpenType is definitely the way to go, there are still a lot of postscript fonts that have not been converted to OpenType. Any ideas of if it's okay to use something like Font XChange to convert? I was wondering if it may possible violate some rule some rules so far as the font manufacturers.
To the OP–I personally would keep the clean-up process in Word. I personally wrote a few macros and at my work they are installed on all the machines. There is no need for one person to clean up files. With the macros anyone can do it.
doc
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