On 01/04/11 17:25, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > webmaster @ krackedpress wrote: > >> I do have a wonder about why you are dealing with such a large document >> in one file. I know from experience that is is much easier to deal with >> dividing it up into parts, like chapters or sections of an outline, >> instead of one large document. > Until recently the texts of books accepted for publication were divided > into separate files, one file per chapter. That’s the way publishers > preferred them. More recently this changed (and I was one of those who > pushed for this change!), not only because computers are bigger and > faster but also because a whole range of systematic changes have to made > to a text––eliminate rogue characters, eliminate multiple spaces, > eliminate or modify styles, correct dashes and quotation marks, perform > spelling check, etc.––and it was a pain to do this ten or fifteen times > rather than once. Some such files are many times bigger than 500 kb––and > that’s without illustrations. Can you device the work into sections when you need to deal with creating the PDF of it, and then use a PDF merge software to merge the smaller file together, so that error you described will not be there?
I will have to check with an editor friend of mine here in the USA. See if she has see the same issue for one file instead of chapter ones. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
