Gospel John in ASL Chapter 1 in PDF format

Fri Jul 31 13:04:20 UTC 2009

SignWriting List
July 31, 2009

Hello Maria!
Thank you for this message. I know you have been using DocumentMaker  
and I really appreciate that. I do too, for smaller documents...I love  
that little program and only wish we could add more features to it,  
which we will someday when we have funding...

So meanwhile, I will be happy to teach you how to do the SignWriting  
Level 4 (SW4) document format in Adobe InDesign...and I think it will  
be valuable for everyone to have this explained in detail...and later  
we could create the same kind of template for other programs such as  
Microsoft Word and Quark Express.

So first, Maria, do you own the Adobe InDesign program? If not, you  
will need to purchase it sooner or later. Right now you could download  
the free trial, but it will stop after one month (creates frustration  
at the end of the month! ;-))

If you own the program, what version are you using?

You can use CS2, CS3 or CS4 I believe and still use my template...but  
now that we are talking about it, I will test that to be sure, by  
downloading the free one-month trial of CS4 to make sure it opens the  
template I created in CS2...

For information on getting the program, go to Adobe InDesign web page:

Adobe InDesign
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/

I look forward to working with you!

Val ;-)

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On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:42 AM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:

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