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Gregath Company e-zine
Volume 9, Number 7
July, 2010
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Please note that while an effort to generalize much of this text has been made, some references to "we, our, etc." still occur and much of the information provided applies to Gregath Company, Inc. and may not with other printer/publishers. ALWAYS double check with your printer/publisher on every detail.
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Table of Contents
You may click on each department below to
go directly to that article. At the end of each article (if supported) is
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? - not in this issue
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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries
at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/glosswrite.html
Run across a word that
you don't understand? Try us -
email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on
the matter!
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Design Inspiration - color hard cover camera ready files
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A camera ready hard cover file should include space for 1" on all four sides (regardless of actual book size), back cover, front cover, and spine allowance. Examples -
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5.5x8.5" with a 1" spine would be 14x10.5"
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6x9" with a 1" spine would be 15x11"
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8.5x11" a 1" spine would be 20x13"
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/hb/color/coverdesign.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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Cover register runs 95-99%. Because of this, many collage type covers designed by authors don't always come out as desired. We suggest that your background continue throughout all cover elements, leaving approximately .25" between your outside photos/graphics and the "edge" of the cover. Otherwise, you could end up with important elements folding around the edge of your cover, and/or spilling onto the edge of your spine.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/hb/color/coverdesign.html
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Marketing advice
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Some basic pages (any category may be multiple pages) you may wish to have include in your author/book website include:
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Bonus content or special features not included in printed book -
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Color photos to supplement black and white in book
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Unpublished photos, documents and artwork/graphics
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More research
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Deeper back story
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/web/
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Genealogy ideas
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Don't ever assume that files produced by applications today will be readable by the same program after several generations of "improvements". Keeping your digital files up to date is at least as important as organizing your paper files. A bonus to this is that many program upgrades will improve your interaction with your data. Take the upgrades in Adobe Acrobat: By upgrading your file versions, Adobe has made the program able to auto search the files - search engine "indexing"!
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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Computer aid!?! - see genealogy this issue
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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