Timothy Wright
New member
I am not a print professional, but I have experience DT publishing several books 20 years ago using PageMaker.
I am working on a new project and finding it a challenge in several technical respects. It is a 200 page prayer book currently in MS Word format. In many respects the prayers are much more like poetry than prose, with one or two prayers per page. In the collection of prayers the language is often archaic and incomprehensible to today’s spelling and grammar checkers. Because of the unique content, I see myself needing the control that I can’t get in Word, and am thinking of InDesign or Quark Press. In particular, I want the ability to kern, select type to the 1/10 of a point size and do 4 up double sided page imposition.
It a perfect world I’d like to print on Bible paper. The book is a pocket book and thickness is critical to usefulness. Of course no laser printer can handle paper that thin and local professional printers also seem unable to work paper that thin.
So please forgive my “new guy” dumb questions. I am earnest about this adventure and would be most appreciative for help getting pointed in the proper direction.
I think I am also looking for an affordable paper shear.
Thank you,
Timothy Wright
I am working on a new project and finding it a challenge in several technical respects. It is a 200 page prayer book currently in MS Word format. In many respects the prayers are much more like poetry than prose, with one or two prayers per page. In the collection of prayers the language is often archaic and incomprehensible to today’s spelling and grammar checkers. Because of the unique content, I see myself needing the control that I can’t get in Word, and am thinking of InDesign or Quark Press. In particular, I want the ability to kern, select type to the 1/10 of a point size and do 4 up double sided page imposition.
It a perfect world I’d like to print on Bible paper. The book is a pocket book and thickness is critical to usefulness. Of course no laser printer can handle paper that thin and local professional printers also seem unable to work paper that thin.
So please forgive my “new guy” dumb questions. I am earnest about this adventure and would be most appreciative for help getting pointed in the proper direction.
I think I am also looking for an affordable paper shear.
Thank you,
Timothy Wright
