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Gregath Publishing e-zine
Volume 6, Number 8
August, 2007
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Table of Contents
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a link back to this contents.
What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What’s It Mean?
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Bleed: A printed image that extends beyond the trim edge of a sheet of paper.
*Blueline: For Gregath use, see ARC. Below is a definition from "The What Shall I Write Handbook", Corrine Russell, 1992, that is a good addition to our ARC entry:
"Bluelines are page proofs. They represent your last chance to review copy looking for errors. Depending on the printing process your printer uses, bluelines may be expensive to produce, and many printers will not provide them unless you request them. If printers do provide them, they may be expensive, so ask first. Bluelines may be a good idea if you have a lot of photographs, for bluelines present your only opportunity to see photographs in place. Check them carefully. Make sure they are in the correct position, and that they are not upside down or turned backward. Because bluelines are so expensive to produce, now is the time to start editing and proofreading. Unless they are printer's errors, changes made at this point cost you dearly."
Book Block: Endpapers, text block and all other materials before hard or soft binding.
* refers to a term not actively used at Gregath Publishing
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For other printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossary at http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html
Run across a word that you don't understand?
Try us - e-mail
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Design Inspiration - Specific
suggestions while deciding index entry/item framework:
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Footnotes are generally not indexed, however, if they contain new names an every name index can include entries such as Floyd, Mary 4, 11 n, 50 (page 11 will be found in the footnote material).
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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There are several popular ways to mark your printed photographs for custom cropping. Below are a few:
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Attach tissue/onion skin, etc. paper to the photograph. With a light touch make your crop marks with a soft lead pencil on the paper.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/photo.html
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Marketing advice
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Never sell online resources short. Check out the following to help with common Journalism with PR questions:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting
http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center
http://citmedia.org/
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http://www.gregathcompany.com/marketingfreeadvertising.html
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Genealogy ideas
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Have you checked out PERSI lately? It is available through HeritageQuest. While this is a subscription program, many libraries with strong genealogy programs allow access on site, and some do from your home. More about PERSI from the Allen County Public Library (http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/persi.html):
"The Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, is the largest
subject index to genealogical and historical periodical articles in the world.
Created by the foundation and department staff of the Genealogy Center of the
library here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, PERSI is widely recognized as being a vital
source for genealogical researchers.
PERSI is a comprehensive subject index covering genealogy and local history
periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. The time period
of the articles ranges from the 1700s to the present. More than 1.8 million
index entries from nearly ten thousand titles are represented by this work.
If you are in one of the fourteen Allen County Public Library facilities, you
may search the PERSI resource by clicking on “E-Resources” on the main webpage <www.ACPL.Info>
and scrolling down to “HeritageQuestOnline.” Clicking on that link and then
choosing the “Search PERSI” option with open the index for you. If you do not
live in Allen County, IN, check with your local library about the availability
of HeritageQuestOnline in your area."
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Computer aid!?!
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Always having trouble with your computer? Have you checked to see if there is a computer support group you can join locally? Our society has lots of different groups for lots of different interests and to solve problems. If there is not one in your area, look at banding together friends and family who have difficulties and successes. Not everyone will have the same problems, or the same successes. While you may always be asking your group questions, you might find yourself the "go to" person for general problems in a program you always work in.
"It takes a village..."
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us We may be stumped, but either way you'll get a personal reply.
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