Edited because I'm a fussbudget.
Nope. The worksheets as they appear in the book, each a separate file for people to download and print out.
I suspect increasing the number of columns would help there. Ten point Times or Times New Roman in three columns for body text would be an much easier read. The same font at larger sizes for section, sub-section, and sub-sub-section headings, and a sans-serif font for Chapter headings and the title page. For the section etc headings use the "condense" style, and for the chapter headings use the "extend" style. Consult your word processor for details.
Haven't used Pagemaker myself, so I have no idea how it deals with embedded fonts. I believe Acrobat and Distiller will embed fonts in a document, and I know that JawsPDF Creator (Mac) does as well, but not whether any third party Windows PDF distiller does. In any case, be sure to get a PDF distiller who can embed fonts in a document, it'll be a big help.
Printing, no. Reading. It isn't a comfortable read. The font and the formatting make reading it uncomfortable, and that means people won't be willing to read it all the way through and then make use of it. Which is what you want. It can also degrade their opinion of your products, and so cut into future sales.
Send a table as an attachment in an email. I'll format it and distill it with a "printer driver" I have.
Glad I could help. Keep in mind that my advice and suggestions are all aimed at helping you produce a more professional product. What you have now is a high quality amateur production. Some will buy it, but more would buy it if it looked professional. Even a PDF.
With that in mind:
Paper is cheap, it's ink that's expensive. Put the title page on page three, start the ToC on page five, and each chapter on an odd numbered page. It's the professional thing to do. Include the chapter number with the header, and put the page number on the bottom outside corner.
My personal preference is to have a one inch inner margin and half inch outer margins. Most printers say they can't handle it, but tweaking the printing preferences (maximum printing area) takes care of that, and with no real impact on printing quality. This will give people more space to print on and actually cut down on the number of pages.
Overall it's a good first effort. The writing is clean, the subject is interesting and your handling of it is good. I recommend it. But, it would do so much better with a few changes.
BTW, Word Perfect Suite from Corel does more than Word for Windows and costs about the same. It's also easier to work with and even gives more professional results. You can use it for writing and basic formatting, then do the hardcore formatting with Pagemaker. For something much cheaper than Word that still has many of the features you'd expect in a word processor, get AppleWorks for Windows. It's a suite of applications, including along with the word processor draw, paint, data base, spreadsheet and presentation software which, while it can't do everything Office can, is cheaper than Word alone and has more features.
Thanks for listening, and remember I'm only doing this in the hopes it results in a better product.
jgbrowning said:
Nope. The worksheets as they appear in the book, each a separate file for people to download and print out.
I suspect increasing the number of columns would help there. Ten point Times or Times New Roman in three columns for body text would be an much easier read. The same font at larger sizes for section, sub-section, and sub-sub-section headings, and a sans-serif font for Chapter headings and the title page. For the section etc headings use the "condense" style, and for the chapter headings use the "extend" style. Consult your word processor for details.
Haven't used Pagemaker myself, so I have no idea how it deals with embedded fonts. I believe Acrobat and Distiller will embed fonts in a document, and I know that JawsPDF Creator (Mac) does as well, but not whether any third party Windows PDF distiller does. In any case, be sure to get a PDF distiller who can embed fonts in a document, it'll be a big help.
Printing, no. Reading. It isn't a comfortable read. The font and the formatting make reading it uncomfortable, and that means people won't be willing to read it all the way through and then make use of it. Which is what you want. It can also degrade their opinion of your products, and so cut into future sales.
Send a table as an attachment in an email. I'll format it and distill it with a "printer driver" I have.
Glad I could help. Keep in mind that my advice and suggestions are all aimed at helping you produce a more professional product. What you have now is a high quality amateur production. Some will buy it, but more would buy it if it looked professional. Even a PDF.
With that in mind:
Paper is cheap, it's ink that's expensive. Put the title page on page three, start the ToC on page five, and each chapter on an odd numbered page. It's the professional thing to do. Include the chapter number with the header, and put the page number on the bottom outside corner.
My personal preference is to have a one inch inner margin and half inch outer margins. Most printers say they can't handle it, but tweaking the printing preferences (maximum printing area) takes care of that, and with no real impact on printing quality. This will give people more space to print on and actually cut down on the number of pages.
Overall it's a good first effort. The writing is clean, the subject is interesting and your handling of it is good. I recommend it. But, it would do so much better with a few changes.
BTW, Word Perfect Suite from Corel does more than Word for Windows and costs about the same. It's also easier to work with and even gives more professional results. You can use it for writing and basic formatting, then do the hardcore formatting with Pagemaker. For something much cheaper than Word that still has many of the features you'd expect in a word processor, get AppleWorks for Windows. It's a suite of applications, including along with the word processor draw, paint, data base, spreadsheet and presentation software which, while it can't do everything Office can, is cheaper than Word alone and has more features.
Thanks for listening, and remember I'm only doing this in the hopes it results in a better product.
