Re: [OT/Commercial] Preparing PDF for offset printing [was] format for Off Set printer
"Duvvuri Venu Gopal" <[email protected]>
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I use OpenOffice 3.0! Do you!! On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:45:09 +0530 "H.S.Rai" <[email protected]> wrote >On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:05 PM, H.S.Rai <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Radhakrishnan CV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 23-Oct-2010, at 4:14 PM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> >> Thank to all who responded. >> >> Now my printer is ready to experiment. He asked to give pdf, and jpg >> of about four pages with coloured images, and he will try with that. > >The outcome of experiment is negative. > >Is it possible to do preparing job for off-set printing, with FOSS >tool or for production there is only non-free tools. Here it my city, >I got impression that CorelDraw is GOD. Even Goossens, Rahtz and >Mittelbach wrote in their book "The LaTeX - Graphics Companion" > ><quote page 348 last paragraph of section 9.5.1> > >... take professional advice before embarking on large-scale color >project with LaTeX ... ></quote> > It says take professional advice. It didn't say CorelDraw is GOD.!! Inkscape is like CorelDraw. You can create cdr files with Inkscape. >Now, may I know some body who can prepare my pdf for offset printing, >i.e. doing pagination (I don't know exact term, it put about four >pages in different sequence on big page), colour separation [and then >I have to see cost factor, in addition to risk of getting it delayed, >resistance from all around me, who find giving to agency is more >comfortable without caring about the use of software at his end], or >can suggest me tools / procedure to do it. I read somewhere to do that >pagination, what now, unable to find it. > I got printed black and white pdf documents. Using pdfpages you can paginate (arrange pages according to forms). First know how many pages to a form will come. then you can set it. >I guess it will be much easier to do in from .tex file, but I have >.pdf, no source .tex as .pdf is prepared by fetching data from >database, producing openoffice document, and then exporting to .pdf >(automatically on server side, developed as web-application) > _______________________________________________ Home: http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia