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Raphaël FreemanApr 24, 2022 · 2 min readApr 24, 20222 min read

instructions on how to mark up pdf for hyphenation

Raphaël FreemanMar 25, 2018 · 1 min readMar 25, 20181 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanFeb 2, 2018 · 2 min readFeb 2, 20182 min read

Good kerning starts in the font and is checked on the page. How I combine font editing, scripts and individual adjustments for consistent book typography.

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 typographic characters...

Raphaël FreemanDec 6, 2017 · 1 min readDec 6, 20171 min read

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 there isn’t more...

Raphaël FreemanSep 29, 2017 · 5 min readSep 29, 20175 min read

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 (they were very...

Raphaël FreemanMar 28, 2017 · 3 min readMar 28, 20173 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanFeb 14, 2017 · 1 min readFeb 14, 20171 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanFeb 13, 2017 · 4 min readFeb 13, 20174 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanJan 31, 2017 · 1 min readJan 31, 20171 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanJan 30, 2017 · 3 min readJan 30, 20173 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanJan 20, 2017 · 8 min readJan 20, 20178 min read

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

Raphaël FreemanJan 29, 2014 · 2 min readJan 29, 20142 min read

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