SW4 Four-Column-Layout InDesign Template available

Fri Jul 31 23:06:45 UTC 2009

SignWriting List
July 31, 2009

Hi Ingvild, Maria and everyone!

For those interested in using Adobe InDesign for designing and  
publishing large books written in SignWriting, I have created an  
inDesign Template for SW4 Format (four columns portrait).

I can email the SW4 Template to you privately, for those who request  
it...so write to me anytime...

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Val ;-)

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On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:04 AM, SignWriting wrote:

> 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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