Well now, that was ...

[kinzel]

Well now, that was ... not exactly useful

Our 84 mile round trip to pick up Gunshy wasn't very fruitful; it took Rolanni all of about 15 seconds to find a problem, and a few seconds more to see that the same error that affected the proof copy, and was thought fixed, affected all the copies of the finished book....

More tomorrow. For today, we're pretty bummed out. This may affect not only the Gunshy pre-orders but potentially the Buffalogenesis deadline as well. Color me not pleased. At least it happened ahead of schedule, so there may be time to fix things.

So, tell me, since the problem seems to be inherent in the Garamond font I was using...what *are* your favorite fonts for books?

Sigh, I really wasn't planning on moving to InDesign CS2 this month, but we may have to fork over the buck$ anyway just to get on the same technological page as our printers.

Today, not a single day lily. Yesterday, 5.

While in the capital city we *did* manage to find Mozart a replacement of sorts for the "Teddy" we'd sent away with Dulsey, and we found a book on OpenOffice 2.0 ... a SAMS book. Go us.

I have no location,
no music, no tags;
my entry is not backdated,
my mood is blank
my comments default

Comments

More font neepery

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Sibling!

Palatino is my favorite font - I often use Courier as a screen font for manuscripts because it's easier to pick up typos, but for printed Material Palatino rocks. I don't care how yesterday it is, my favorite headline font is Cooper Black...

Cochin is a font I've recently discovered, and so far, I like it.

Times is a font I don't get on with - it's the wrong proportion for me, it just doesn't flow.

[sambear.livejournal.com]

Footlight MT Light is my favorite font.
But I love the Bookman fonts, and Palatino

[elaine-brennan.livejournal.com]

what medievalist said.

Springing for Adobe's Garamond in all its glory, and then making sure that you actually embed the fonts in the documents sent off to the printer can make a huge difference.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

Minion is a beautiful font for text, and there's a gorgeous set of Minion swash capitals for display type.

If you get InDesign CS2:

[wdonohue.livejournal.com]

They bundle some good book faces with it; Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro, & Adobe Jenson Pro. They don't include Minion, unfortunately. If you spring for the full suite of programs, you get Minion, Adobe Garamond Premier Pro, Warnock Pro, plus a bunch of others. Many of our outside print vendors are now running PDF workflows - InDesign makes it much easier to generate PDFs to their spec.

-- Brian out --

[elektra.livejournal.com]

These days, for some reason I'm very big on Century OldStyT . . .