instructions on how to mark up pdf for hyphenation

However, if the quality of the image is not good enough for press, then the image will be imported as large as possible such that it will be

This is the third of a 10-part series of the Ten Keys to Seamless Typesetting. Kerning is a necessary part of the typesetting process. Whereas in the past this could have meant filing the edge of a sort to fit two characters closer together, today the process is much faster. To a large extent, kerning is pre-programmed into a professional font, but not every letter combination is necessarily taken care of and even if it is, not necessarily to the liking of the typesetter.

So there was a recent post on InDesign Secrets on how to find Ḥanuka in a document since it is spelt in so many different ways. One of the challenges of typesetting multilingual texts is that often special characters such as the Ḥ in the title above can be used. Not only is the ḥ common, but also ẓ, ṣ, ṭ, ḍ and even ḳ! The video below demonstrates how to create a custom ḥ in the correct font using the IndyFont Pro script. If you have a manuscript that has special typograp

When the manuscript is complete and there are no more corrections, the next stage is the final one of “balancing” the book. This is the process whereby the recto and verso (the right- and left-hand pages in a left-to-right book) of each spread are adjusted to be the same length. The exception is the last page of a chapter, and also when a new section head starts on the recto. This is accomplished by three methods: Shorten or lengthen the spread by up to a line (ensuring that

History It’s worth taking a step back to see how the process worked not that long ago. You would have typed up your manuscript on a typewriter. The typesetter would then have rekeyed your entire manuscript using specialised hardware or a computer system, changing your typewriter quotes to typographer quotes (or curly quotes), fixing your double hyphens to the correct dashes and so forth. The typesetter would then have printed out the galleys. These were strips of bromide (th

In the above video I show the best way to indicate in your manuscript where pictures and captions need to go and also show you what happens

For quite some time, I would fiddle with the values until they were just so, but I decided that there must be a better way of doing this. I

Well there are a few good options: You could buy a Mac :-) However, if like me, you are sticking to Windows, then if you are using software

In the below video I demonstrate how to achieve this in InDesign as well as quickly showing another favorite typesetting trick of mine of ho

Assigning styles aren’t necessary – it just can make the process for the author, editor and typesetter more efficent. However, as long as th

I’m going to list the pages here in the order that I usually typeset books, but of course each publisher will have their own rules and it’s

However after typesetting there is a dispute. As a typesetter with multiple displays (yes four of them!) I prefer to receive a marked-up PDF