Re: [BKARTS] Smyth-sewn, short-run book

[Don Drake <ddrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Susan,

I typically receive a project like this as a PDF. I then run it through 
some commercial imposition software creating (in your case) 11x17 
spreads, designed to fold in gatherings of four. I output this new file 
as a PDF and print from Acrobat Reader.

Other imposition solutions: the old PageMaker booklet maker (packaged 
with the software); a third party solution to impose InDesign 
documents; a Windows PDF imposition program called PDFSnake; there used 
to be a Windows based tool called ClickBooks. There are surely others.

Contact me for more specific information or pricing to impose your file.

Regards,
Don Drake
Dreaming Mind

ddrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IM: stitchbyhand
http://www.dreamingmind.com
http://www.hughstump.com
(510) 537-9711

On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:28 PM, S Burneson wrote:

> I am a genealogist and designer in Austin, Texas, and I have a 
> dilemma. I am producing a 100-page memoir for a client. The page size 
> is 8-1/2x11. My client wants the book to be durable, with a hard cover 
> and a Smyth-sewn binding so that it will lay flat. Because we will be 
> producing less than 50 copies, we plan to laser print the pages, 
> rather than print them. I am looking for guidelines for producing the 
> signatures needed by the bindery - and any other suggestions anyone 
> might have for such a project, since this is a new one for me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Susan

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