Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:41:38 -0600 Matt Gushee wrote:

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I am planning to publish a book that is typeset using ConTeXt, and very soon I am going to start contacting printers for estimates. Given that a shop prints from PDF files, does it matter that the PDFs are produced by ConTeXt?

This has all been for digital printing and perfect-bound paperbacks. I would like to know if an offset press generating folded and gathered signatures takes the same pdf input. And where to go for sewn hardcovers in small quantities and short run leatherbound books for "collector's editions." I haven't explored those issues yet but will do so eventually.

-Bill

The printshops that I dealt with were capable of imposing normally paginated pdfs into signatures for offset printing. I've never done imposition myself. -- Siep Kroonenberg