Pre-press Services

 

DESIGN
4word can follow your house style rigorously or suggest a suitable new design. Illustrations, tables, footnotes – we’ll ensure all textual elements balance and are easily navigable by the reader. Check Looking good; it’s packed with handy hints about how to achieve the balance between elegant, and economic, page layouts.


PAGE MAKEUP


DATA CODING
SGML and XML


SCANNING ILLUSTRATIONS
W e’ll digitize, crop, size, modify, enhance and place your illustrations close to their point of reference in the text Text: we can resurrect old editions, long since out of print, by scanning pages from a printed copy and making the files print-ready for today’s technology



PDF WORKFLOW
High-resolution 2400dpi direct-to-plate output, print-ready, and calibrated to the press

ARCHIVING
We’ll return files to you, complete with scans, in the media of your choice



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Features
Page Design
Elements of good and bad design page and how to get good results...

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Format
the trimmed size. What size should your publication be?
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Impact
First, identify the target audience – is it library users, individual subscribers receiving copies in the post, book buyers in a shop, book buyers over the net
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Washington is a town where more people probably contemplate writing a book than finish reading one.
Ann Gercimos, Washington Times, 29 Mar 1989


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