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Book Printer

If you are thinking of having your book printed talk to the friendly team at Ligare Book Printers

www.ligare.com.au/

Guide to Book Production
This is the book you need...

This Australian book is the essential guide to Book Production. More details...

$29.95

Image Manipulation Hints & Tips

Introduction to Halftones & Scanning

Adobe have hidden this page, but it is very well presented - a 'must read' if you are doing scanning etc.  More details...

ImagePro. Another USA site, but good information on colour & Photoshop etc. 

     Image Resolution...

     Info on RBG vs CMYK...

     Printing Tips & Newsletter...

     Photoshop Tips...

     More on Full Colour...

efg colour pages  Everything you could ever need to know about colour theory. Also check to see if you are colour blind    More details..

Moiré  'White paper' from Cadmus - extensive tips on how to avoid Moiré. Also try some of their other papers    More details...

Adobe Technical Guides
Calibrating your monitor for colour management using Adobe Gamma. Also has links to other colour guides.  More details...

Other  DTP stuff

Preflight Checklist   From the Printing Industries of Northern California More details..

Tips & Ideas from Adobe Expert         Nick Hodge

InDesign 2
Great site, this page recommends using PDF instead of EPS with InDesign2

http://www.nickhodge.com/mne.php?mcid=1026

Another page from Nick Hodge - Printing Output Choices and Flattener Tricks (including force Greyscale export!) in InDesign2

http://www.nickhodge.com/mne.php?mcid=715

A Nick Hodge Tip for placing Photoshop images into InDesign2

http://www.nickhodge.com/mne.php?mcid=861.

InDesign Tips

Adobe have carefully hidden their Printing Guide for Service Providers. This is a 105 page PDF file.   More details...

Publishing Resources

This USA site explains in clear terms the whole range of services that can be provided, often by your Australian book printer. Of particular interest are the Services and Schedules sections.    

http://www.bookproduction.com/services.htm

Publishing Basics
The newsletters are very down-to-earth. Great resource material   More details...

Books Just Books
A site related to the one above, has tips for pre-press requirements. Fairly similar to our requirements here in Australia   More details..

Guidelines from Cadmus (UK)
A nice simple page describing important things to remember  More details...

Adobe Technical Guides
Adobe have carefully hidden these pages also but they provide invaluable information on whole range of DTP subjects as well as for their products  More details...

Typography

Unicode & Character Map Utilities
A great resource for solving problems with unusual characters etc

More details...

Even though this site is aimed at Vietnamese fonts, it has a good summary of the ability of various programs to support Unicode

http://www.tti-us.com/uvn/unicode.html

Vietnamese Fonts and Unicode Help
A Probably the best site if you are having problems with Vietnamese diacritics

Sil Fonts
I haven't tried these, but looks interesting  More details...

Wanted Fonts
This site had lots of good decorative fonts, but I have removed the link as it has nasty ad-ware

Adobe Font Info
Adobe Type Topics  More details...

Adobe Garamond - a PDF which shows how to use this excellent font   More details...

Linux

The GIMP
Similar to Photoshop  More details...

Scribus
Similar to PageMaker  More details...

Ghostscript
Converts a PostScript file to PDF. Not yet guaranteed for high res. output  More details...

Other  Book-related Links

Book Barcodes Explained
EAN Australia User Manual explains the ISBN Barcode system on pages 129 - 136 and barcode colour on pages 36 - 37. Download the PDF here  User Manual...

ISBN Link
Download the ISBN Application Form here, but please let your book printer create the barcode  More details...

CiP Link
Download the CiP Application Form here. You must have an ISBN before you can apply for CiP  More details...

General Sites
Excellent general internet resource written by a Brisbane lawyer Main portal is here...

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