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Great. Big job. I too loved the Page Maker program, now I am using an old version of the InDesign, vesrion Cue CS2. That may be to old for me to use your template ...<br><br>Ingvild
<br><br><br><br>> From: sutton@signwriting.org<br>> To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:23:55 -0700<br>> CC: romero@signwriting.org; cbatch@san.rr.com<br>> Subject: [sw-l] Gospel John in ASL Chapter 1 in PDF format<br>> <br>> SignWriting List<br>> July 30, 2009<br>> <br>> Hello SignWriting List!<br>> I have been working on the book design and layout, for printing the 21 <br>> chapters of the Gospel According to John in American Sign Language, <br>> translated from the New Living Translation by Nancy Romero, edited by <br>> ASL editor Lucinda O'Grady Batch (thank you Nancy & Cindy ;-)<br>> <br>> Since we decided to publish the Gospel of John in SignWriting Level 4, <br>> which means four columns per page, in portrait style pages, I decided <br>> to use a book-design program called Adobe InDesign for this very large <br>> book preparation, since it may involve 500-600 pages when we are done, <br>> and our DocumentMaker Pro program, no matter how much I love it, needs <br>> to be improved from a software development perspective, and our non- <br>> profit organization does not have the funds right now to invest in <br>> improving DocumentMaker...someday we will!<br>> <br>> So instead, since I used PageMaker years ago to prepare books, and <br>> since PageMaker was purchased by Adobe, they made it possible for <br>> PageMaker users to transfer all their old documents into Adobe <br>> InDesign. I had hundreds of book-layout files in the old PageMaker so <br>> I had a big job transferring all those old files into Adobe InDesign, <br>> but over time I learned Adobe InDesign and I enjoy using the program...<br>> <br>> There are two programs used most for large book-layouts...Quark <br>> Express and Adobe InDesign...and there are others that are terrific <br>> for mathematical textbooks and so forth...so there is a big world out <br>> there with so many software choices...I know lots of people use <br>> Microsoft Word...I understand how to use Adobe InDesign better, and I <br>> love the way it makes PDF files, since Adobe is the developer of the <br>> PDF format...they have the creation of PDF files built into the <br>> program, which is a great help. It also coordinates well with Adobe <br>> Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat...<br>> <br>> So I have started the SignWriting 4-column layout for the 21 chapters <br>> of the Gospel According to John in Adobe Indesign now ...I created a <br>> template with a table for the four columns...giving the lines between <br>> the columns a light grey color, and I established the exact Column <br>> Height, width and so forth in SignPuddle ColumnMaker to match my <br>> template in Adobe InDesign.<br>> <br>> So if there are any of you who also use Adobe InDesign, or would like <br>> to learn, and you would like to have a copy of the template I have <br>> established for SignWriting Level 4 documents (4-column portrait <br>> documents), please tell me and I will send you my template, with <br>> instructions on how to coordinate with SignPuddle's ColumnMaker <br>> features, which are just superb! (thank you, Steve! ;-)<br>> <br>> Here, attached, is a sample of the first chapter of the Gospel <br>> According to John. I will add more chapters later....<br>> <br>> Hope you all have enjoyed your July!!<br>> <br>> Val ;-)<br>> <br>> See attached -<br>> <br></body>
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