You cannot select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.

46 lines
3.0 KiB
HTML

This file contains invisible Unicode characters!

This file contains invisible Unicode characters that may be processed differently from what appears below. If your use case is intentional and legitimate, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal hidden characters.

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters that may be confused with others in your current locale. If your use case is intentional and legitimate, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to highlight these characters.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Tasks of the Contingent Librarian</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tasks.css">
<script src="tasks.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="card"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><div class="mw-parser-output"><h1><span class="mw-headline" id="reprinting">reprinting</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Reprinting&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: reprinting">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1>
<p>see also <a href="Being_kind_to_the_reader.html" title="User:Simon/Being kind to the reader">being kind to the reader</a>, <a href="Bootlegging.html" title="User:Simon/Bootlegging">bootlegging</a>, <a href="Rebinding.html" title="User:Simon/Rebinding">rebinding</a>, <a href="Republishing.html" title="User:Simon/Republishing">republishing</a>
</p><p>Making a printed book involves selection of paper stock and decisions on how to economise with the printing method. Often this calls for text to be imposed, 2-up, double-sided, into a booklet. Booklets are useful for thin, staple-bound books, less than 64 pages of ordinary 80gsm paper.
</p><p>A text block of 2-up imposed spreads is cut in the middle first, then the two halves are joined together like a sandwich. Turning a single page document into a 2-up imposed PDF also imposes a constraint. There is no other way to create the text block. So, a book made in this way will result in a visible “split”, and the pages will naturally fall open where the two halves were joined.
</p><p>This is because most commercially bought paper comes with the grain direction aligned with the long edge, not the short edge. The solution is to print pages, not spreads, 1-up, double sided on a page. If you can find a printer that takes sheets of paper smaller than A4 (such as A5) this is perfect, if not, you may have to concede the loss that comes from trimming down to a smaller than A5 size. Although this may seem just a superficial concern, the book will not be split, making for a materiality that emphasises the unity of the text.
</p><p>Image: (clockwise from top left): imposition from a single-page PDF into a booklet, anatomy of a book, a spread
</p>
<!--
NewPP limit report
Cached time: 20200611202202
Cache expiry: 86400
Dynamic content: false
CPU time usage: 0.004 seconds
Real time usage: 0.005 seconds
Preprocessor visited node count: 2/1000000
Preprocessor generated node count: 8/1000000
Postexpand include size: 0/2097152 bytes
Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes
Highest expansion depth: 2/40
Expensive parser function count: 0/100
Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20
Unstrip postexpand size: 0/5000000 bytes
-->
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 0.000 1 -total
-->
<!-- Saved in parser cache with key wdka_mw_mediadesign-mw_:pcache:idhash:31440-0!canonical and timestamp 20200611202202 and revision id 173940
-->
</div></DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT></div>
</body>
</html>