Re: "Print on demand" and "Docutech"

Subject: Re: "Print on demand" and "Docutech"
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:09:02 -0700

Christine Pellar-Kosbar <chrispk -at- merit -dot- edu> wrote:

>That is how I had to send it -- ps. Of course, it had to be completely perfect;
>they could not change anything in the file (they didn't have Frame).
>Occasionally, even the PS would have strange artifacts not visable in the
>FrameMaker version.

I hope you don't mind some small corrections: editors for
postscript do exist. You can even edit postscript files by hand,
if you know enough - but this operation is definitely NOT for the
faint-hearted. However, it's not surprising that a print house
wouldn't want to bother.

Also, many houses work from Acrobat files, for which some editing
tools are also available.

>We had to install a special printer driver the printing house gave us. That was
>five years ago.

If you're sending a postscript file, any postscript printer
driver will do. However, Docutech houses encourage the use of the
standard drivers, probably because they know what quirks to
expect.

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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
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All on a Midsummer's Morn,
Surely we sing of no little thing,
In Oak and Ash and Thorn!"
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