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<blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4522582" data-attributes="member: 70778">Well typesetting really just means screwing around with text in any medium, so each post you make is typeset by you with what ever options you include such as: bold, italics, underlined, red, etc.I agree that a physical book that will see no future printings doesn't have to be perfect in PDF form, but I think the PDF is what the printers use to make the physical books.Someone know anything about those illegal copies to begin with when 4th came out? Got a link to any threads about them? I recall reading some place Scott Rouse said they were leaked form the printer and had some kind of printing markings on them or something.All I can figure that out to mean is swatches of colors somewhere on the page to make sure the printed page ends up having the correct colors, and each page has its own master color chart on it in a way that has to be cut out with the guillotine before/when the book is bound.So the PDF seems to be where the physical books come from. Which is why I would think it more important to keep them updated in case a future printing is needed. Sadly most people seem to follow the philosophy of &quot;why do today what you can put off until tomorrow&quot;, and end up having to do everything last minute.I don't think they fully grasp the concept of going electronic/digital as they have shown to have too few people to handle the digital needs. Including, before too long, people at work all hours of the day on shifts to handle problems, not just 9-5 Mon-Thur, and 9-noon on friday. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm&nbsp; &nbsp; :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="justanobody, post: 4522582, member: 70778"] Well typesetting really just means screwing around with text in any medium, so each post you make is typeset by you with what ever options you include such as: [B]bold[/B], [I]italics[/I], [U]underlined[/U], [COLOR="Red"]red[/COLOR], etc. I agree that a physical book that will see no future printings doesn't have to be perfect in PDF form, but I think the PDF is what the printers use to make the physical books. Someone know anything about those illegal copies to begin with when 4th came out? Got a link to any threads about them? I recall reading some place Scott Rouse said they were leaked form the printer and had some kind of printing markings on them or something. All I can figure that out to mean is swatches of colors somewhere on the page to make sure the printed page ends up having the correct colors, and each page has its own master color chart on it in a way that has to be cut out with the guillotine before/when the book is bound. So the PDF seems to be where the physical books come from. Which is why I would think it more important to keep them updated in case a future printing is needed. Sadly most people seem to follow the philosophy of "why do today what you can put off until tomorrow", and end up having to do everything last minute. I don't think they fully grasp the concept of going electronic/digital as they have shown to have too few people to handle the digital needs. Including, before too long, people at work all hours of the day on shifts to handle problems, not just 9-5 Mon-Thur, and 9-noon on friday. :-S [/QUOTE]

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