Questions tagged [publishing]
Publishing refers to the distribution of text and graphical content to make it available to an audience.
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Best CMYK export option
I am a children's book designer writer. I am trying to format my first picture book for printing. I have worked the images in RGB, but thought I should convert in Affinity before sending to printing....
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How to have repeating headers in sequence per page?
I've been re-learning InDesign (currently on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1) and created a test publication at 203 mm x 280mm using a real-life publication of that size as a guideline.
I'm using InDesign 17.4.
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Why no vertical lines in tables?
Some publisher styles (APA, Chicago, SVMono Springer, …) require that tables contain no vertical lines (“unless [the lines] indicate the structure of the data” for Chicago). Why such a generic and ...
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Footnote style using asterisk should have space or no space between symbol and note?
When referencing a footnote using an asterisk or other acceptable symbols such as dagger and double dagger, in the footnote itself do you put a space between the symbol and the note?
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Can fonts be displayed as contextual character combinations?
Looking for way to do a handwriting font but where certain letter sequences or patterns display together. Would the method be to put the two or three or four letters together as one, as uncommonly ...
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What font is this? (Used in publishing sheet music)
I have tried my best but have failed. Asking for help identifying this font.
It is the font used for fingerings in very old books of sheet music. Here is an example from a book published in 1976:
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Objects/elements disappear when online publishing an Adobe InDesign interactive PDF
When I 'publish online' my Adobe InDesign interactive PDF, some of the elements and objects don't show.
For example, little things such as some of the shadow effects dissapear when exported this way.
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How do you publish interactive adobe animate .swf, or mac/pc projector onto a website?
I have a whole library of interactive (chemistry) learning animations with voice annotation that I had hoped to publish in a dedicated website before the flash player got End of Life and changed ...
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Mobile (TabS3 Samsung) apps to digital drawing: I need to draw book/ebook covers in 300dpi
I want to produce ebook covers and printable covers. So, which apps can I use to draw, without any doubts, in 300dpi or higher using my tablet?
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Scribus: InDesign like book object
I have been using Adobe InDesign to create books. I am considering shifting to Scribus. I usually make each chapter in my book into a separate document and then add all the documents to a InDesign ...
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If I want my published art book to be 6.5 x 6.5, how big should the actual art work be?
I wondered how big my physical, not digital, art work should be for a finished book size 6.5 x 6.5? Many thanks
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How would I go about designing/coding some kind of "template" for my magazine's content?
I'm making a magazine. I have already made the entire "backend", meaning I have a database system where I can easily insert new contents, juggle it around in an "order" for each issue, edit it, etc., ...
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Use PDF editor for book publishing (including conversion to PDF/X)
I know that there is dedicated software for book publishing, such as Affinity Publisher, Adobe Indesign, and so on, but I have used for a certain project LaTeX, which would produce a PDF.
Since most ...
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What was there before ICC profiles?
It's a general question of desktop publishing.
I sometimes wonder what notions where taking place where we now have ICC profiles (and there PCSs). Which are computer notions, materialized by files (...
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How to edit text in Scribus 1.4.7 document created from template?
I spent 4 hours creating a document layout for a resume using Scribus. I'm new to Scribus, but I picked it up pretty easily through tutorials. I created two master pages (one for a first page, and one ...
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text on different lines with different styles, colours, leading and baseline shift, can it be turned into a paragraph style?
I have a text box with text on different lines with different styles, colors, leading and baseline shift. Is it possible to create this as a "standard/ master version", so that whenever any ...
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How can I make this picture print exactly (or almost exactly) the way it looks on screen?
I have this image that is used as a cover page of a magazine I made.
When I print it, it prints a very dark image and does not show the spiky designs at all.
I saw some suggestions to use Photoshop ...
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What is an eBrochure and how would it differ from a website?
I've been asked to create a print brochure (like a traditional tri-fold) and a corresponding "ebrochure". I've never heard of an ebrochure, so in the absence of clear specifications from the client, I ...
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Printing magazine as PSD instead of PDF?
I have produced a multi-page magazine (32-40 pages long). For years I have been publishing it at a local printing business near me. They prefer a high quality PDF file to produce the magazine. It has ...
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Sustainable revision workflow for print/digital documents with non-designers
It's my first time posting here so if this topic has been addressed please let me know.
I'm the only in-house designer in my company. The company I work in has a lot of non-designers who work on ...
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Optical Resolution vs. Print Quality When Scanning Art for Traditional Offset Printing
I'm new to this side of things - a writer who's venturing into self publishing. My illustrator, also a newbie, will be providing me the original artwork, but I need to figure out how best to achieve a ...
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At what point can an image be considered "redrawn"?
In most cases in academic publishing a permission is required to reuse (e.g. publish again) previously published graphic content. A problem is that the copyright holder of that content is usually not ...
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Why do so many books indent all paragraphs except the first one in each chapter? [duplicate]
I've just looked through every printed book I've bought over the past year and noticed a curious pattern that I'd never given much thought until now (due to currently preparing a manuscript for ...
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InDesign: how to edit table text, cells and rows all at once?
My client created his book using Microsoft Word. He's sent me the file and I've placed it into InDesign in order to make it look beautiful and more pleasing to read. Everything went on well, except ...
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Editorial Design: Correct labelling of a graphic that is based on an original
I am working on the editorial design of an article dealing with U.S. military history. In the article I am using a graphical interpretation of an original U.S. Army insignia. The insignia is of the ...
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Interior for a notebook
I am trying to make an interior for a notebook and I can't figure out how to duplicate one page across one hundred pages. I'm trying to find the easiest way to accomplish this.
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Should I send my client the original file of a job? [duplicate]
I have recently accepted a free-lance job to typeset a book in LaTeX for a publisher. I'm not a professional graphic designer, but I have been working with this tool for a long time now. Now I even ...
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How is completely matte printing achieved?
I'm working on a colourful publication. Each page has a different coloured design all over it, covering it completely. I want it to be completely matte, but I'm not sure how to achieve that. Here is ...
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What program do I use to create a manual or catalog?
The last time I did any desktop publishing it was ten years ago and I used Microsoft Publisher. Now I need to put together a product user manual, troubleshooting guide, and a new catalog. I figured ...
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Where can I get the specifications for my half-page magazine ad?
So I need to do a half-page magazine ad. I was going to make some different concepts using both Photoshop and Illustrator (I don't have much experience with InDesign so you folks that do it for a ...
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Center align to page or to safe area
I'm designing a cookbook in InDesign using templates from blurb.com similar to the one below. If I want a photo or a piece of text to be aligned to the centre of the page when the book prints, is it ...
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What are methods do you use for handling typography issues (Ill, ill, fi, ct, Th) without using ligatures?
So, this is a question I've never asked, and in most cases avoided pointing out all together. I'm finally open to finding a non-ligature solution too. Preferably one that doesn't require a font change....
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Animate a magazine from InDesign
I'm sorry if the title doesn't make much sense.
Basically my colleague has finished designing and published a magazine for our client. Our client has asked us to have the magazine viewable on web ...
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What are the options for digital magazine publishing?
I work for a company and we produce a 60 page magazine. We do a print version but are trying to figure out the best, most cost-effective way to create and publish a digital version. Also keeping in ...
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Are there specific considerations when sending a design to a newspaper?
I need to send a design to be published in a newspaper. I assume this must be restricted to several factors, size, color space, halftoning, etc.
Are there any specific requirements?
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Collating an RTL "book" in InDesign CC
I've been working on a siddur, or Jewish prayerbook, in InDesign. However, all of my training has been in the "document", creation within InDesign, which is to say, I can make perfectly decent layouts,...
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Book cover design and royalties
I have a client who would like a book cover design and wants to use it for unlimited publishing. For the designers who have experience with this have you negotiated royalties? Or just accepted the ...
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Techniques to preserve visual quality when importing content from PDF into MS Word
Someone I know occasionally asks my help when incorporating contributed material into an A5 booklet she edits and produces for a small local annual event.
The booklet is essentially a programme for ...
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What program can be used to make book covers (digital and print)?
I'm looking to start making book covers for myself and a few friends, and I am wondering what software to use. I have Photoshop and GIMP for the manipulation aspect, but what about the rest?
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Design Portfolio Copyright
when I was at design college 2013 we were told (for educational purposes) that we could use images from the net (only photographs) to incorporate into designs for posters, collages, magazine covers, ...
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With modern digital publishing process is there any reason to use InDesign for a final advertisement?
One of the most cited things I've found online is to create final advertisements in InDesign to send publishing companies because it will result in better text quality.
Is this just for high end ...
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