book editing
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- spifflink
So my father, who is a pretty widely known artist(in his respective genre), is doing a book about himself. He had one of his writer buddies write a ton of stuff about him, then the guy write a bunch, then flakes out on the layout part of it and give us a packet of typed pages on 8.5x11s. Lame. So my dad thinks that because I do graphic design(print ads and apparel mostly) that I can edit a book in quark. Lame. I have all of the stuff in pdf's now at least, but I am doing this two column layout and I suck at quark. Anybody know anyone awesome at stuff like this?
- harlequino0
Is there a publishing deal? If so, they handle that sort of thing I think.
If not, what will happen with this book?
- barbtastic0
I am doing this two column layout and I suck at quark. Anybody know anyone awesome at stuff like this?
spifflink
(Mar 7 07, 13:36)
--------------------what specifically are you trying to do that your suckitude is preventing you from accomplishing?
- spifflink0
He is getting it published, and I think it is through this writer guy, but like I said, he totally flaked out and wasn't really getting anything done. Either way, the book will be published through him or someone else, but no one is taking care of it. He has a lot of galleries and art places wanting to distribute it, so there is no lack of interest or anything.
- spifflink0
just a lot of things with text formatting and getting picture and text to look right. its not that I can't do it outright, its just that I know an expert could do it better and faster, and this book needs to go out this summer.
- barbtastic0
so are you trying to design the layout of the book, or just get the text into an electronic file to edit copy?
- spifflink0
both :P
- barbtastic0
do you know how to use style sheets? master pages? auto page-numbering? that will save you an ass-load of time...
- kingjulien0
Mayo does excellent work:
- spifflink0
i know how to use master pages and text box linking and stuff. i had to go out and buy myself a book though, haha. honestly i feel like it would be better to outsource this though.
- barbtastic0
then you should outsource it :)
- Mimio0
There are a few 'book' and 'manuscript' templates in Adobe Bridge for InDesign. You can just flow the text right into these. It's really nice.
- barbtastic0
if you decide to do it yourself, i can help...
unfortunately, i can run Quark in my sleep
- spifflink0
haha sweet, thanks for the offer, i may take you up on it. i would have used indesign (my personal preference), but my brother (who is also in the same line of work) did like 20 pages worth of stuff in quark already. if worse comes to worse i might switch it over before i go any further.
- barbtastic0
spiffink!!!
switch NOW... if needed, i can convert it for you, it will make a world of diff
- -sputnik-0
so may i ask who your dad is? is his work online anywhere?
- barbtastic0
all you need is a copy of Quark 6 to save to Quark 5
then open in Quark 5 and save down to Quark 4
open Quark 4 doc in InD
Thanks, Quark, for making everything so GD efficient :)
- spifflink0
I am running quark 7, I can maybe just copy and paste? boooo I hate quark.
sputnik- my dad is Michael Coleman. My brother owns a digital printing place where he does reproductions on those huge roland printers, so he has done a lot of my dad's stuff, his website(which sucks) has a bunch of his stuff:
http://www.colemanstudios.com
- barbtastic0
copy-paste is fine if you have the patience for it...
if you want to retain any layouts or formatting you have already done, i would recommend converting