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Thursday, November 1st, 2007In the publishing house where I used to work, we experimented with what I call "paperless proofreading." A previous newsletter explains the concept: Share
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In the publishing house where I used to work, we experimented with what I call "paperless proofreading." A previous newsletter explains the concept: Share
Checking Page Proofs in Acrobat Reader
Wednesday, December 29th, 2004In our shop, when a book is ready to go to press, we create a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file from QuarkXPress, and that's what we send to the printer. But before sending the book off, we print it out on paper and review the pages to make sure that they're ...
Compare Vs. Merge
Wednesday, May 28th, 2003If you do paperless proofreading (as described in the newsletter for May 14), you've probably bumped into some of the same problems I've had with comparing documents (Tools > Track Changes > Compare Documents) and merging documents (Tools > Merge Documents). In particular, sometimes I'll go to compare two documents ...
Reviewing Revisions with the Keyboard
Wednesday, May 21st, 2003Last week's article on paperless proofreading explained how to use Word's Reviewing toolbar to review revisions in a merged document. It's a great tool except for one thing: the need to locate and click those tiny toolbar buttons for every revision you want to find, accept, or reject. Wouldn't it ...
Paperless Proofreading
Wednesday, May 14th, 2003I started in the publishing business as a proofreader, reading type set in hot metal on a Linotype machine. I'd compare the type against the edited manuscript and mark any discrepancies. Then back the type would go for corrections, with additional cycles of proofreading and corrections until the type was ...
The Death of Proofreading
Tuesday, December 5th, 2000There you are, editing somebody's book in Microsoft Word. If you were working 20 years ago, you'd be editing on paper. After you finished, a typesetter would retype the entire manuscript (including your changes) by hand and run out typeset galleys. Then you'd assign a proofreader to check the typesetter's work ...