Sawing is not something you readily associate with book-making – sewing, certainly, but taking a saw to a book has a suggestion of destructive violence about it; yet if you are dealing in volume production, sawing is an essential step before sewing can take place. It is also, I have to confess, one of … Continue reading Ch. 20 – Wise saws and modern instances
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Ch. 4: WYSINWYG: the great Adobe Acrobat booklet-printing mystery
What you see is not what you get... Adobe Acrobat will print booklets, putting two A5 portrait pages on each side of an A4 landscape sheet, with appropriate pagination (i.e. if you print an eight page booklet - which will require two sheets of paper - then one sheet will have pages 8 and 1 … Continue reading Ch. 4: WYSINWYG: the great Adobe Acrobat booklet-printing mystery
Ch. 2: We happy few – a dedicated band
a dedicated band There is a world of difference between telling a story and telling a story to someone. It can be likened to shouting at the sky and having a conversation: you might well manage to remain coherent and intelligible while doing the former, but you're more likely to manage it in the latter. … Continue reading Ch. 2: We happy few – a dedicated band
Chapter 1: How did it happen?
photo: Shaun Bythell Well, here I am in the Bookshop, Wigtown, at the height of the Wigtown Book Festival, Scotland's Literary event of the year (and I say that as one who has appeared more than once at the Edinburgh Book Festival). Those red books on the table, in the case and in the basket, … Continue reading Chapter 1: How did it happen?
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