Traditional Typesetting for your Printed Book.

Paperback Formatting and Traditional Typesetting by BC.B

Traditional Typesetting for Print

It’s not hard to convert a document into a PDF for printing. Anyone can do it, but Traditional Typesetting for Print is more than a mere conversion. Without getting too technical, there are many details that must be done by hand in order to produce a pleasing printed book.

Typesetting - Drop Cap Notes ExampleIt takes skill and an eye for spotting horrible ‘rivers’, orphans, widows, and even a word that repeats vertically by pure chance. The words ‘the’ or ‘a’ are very common and are culprits of this. By shifting the spacing in the Typesetting, I can knock a word or two down into the next line to throw off the ‘column’ effect through proper Typesetting.

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