This book explores the processes and issues involved in preparing color publications for reproduction on a commercial printing press-a set of tasks known as the prepress process.
Despite being written in 1995, this book contains useful information for those starting out with using commercial printing presses, especially industry standards and explains key terms. I have removed obsolete information and added some annotations.
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Grid Tab
Fill in the fields and click the GG button to create your grid.
Negative margin values will place the guides outside your selection.
Hold the clear guides button to clear all input fields.
Clicking the icon next to a margin field will apply its value to all margins.
Clicking the + button will let you save the current values as a preset.
Sets Tab
Double click a guide set to edit it.
Hold the clear guides button to delete the selected set.
Holding the GG button with a set selected will switch to the grid tab and populate its form
Richard Taylor looks at how to create a documented library of your work for online and print publishing: producing better professional practice and forwarding your work by establishing a self-archive.
Books can be any size. Here are the standard sizes to which most books follow:
134 x 197mm (Standard)
216 x 138mm (Demy)
210 x 148mm (A5)
234 x 156mm (Royal)
249 x 177mm (Pinched Crown Quarto)
246 x 189mm (Crown Quarto)
276 x 219mm (Demy Quarto)
297 x 210mm (A4)