Document layout for typeset.

K

KenF26335

I have a document that is made up of a series of paragraphs. Under each
paragraph is several lines of text which is to be aligned into two columns -
normally a simple task. Our printer guy insists that the document must be
supplied in Word, must be proportional Times Roman face and must be aligned
using spaces only. This is a real killer. I have pumped out a VB program
that builds the document and am using the VB TextWidth value to try and
align the text. Unfortunately the VB TextWidth value is not consistent when
the text is written to Word. Is there a TextWidth kind of value in Word I
can use that is reliable? Or does anyone know of a way of stripping tabs and
then padding the text with spaces for alignment
 
J

Jezebel

Either you misunderstood the guy, or the guy doesn't know what he's talking
about. There is NO proportional width font that can be reliably aligned
using spaces, and no typographic professional would suggest such a method.
Even suggesting that you use Word is unusual if you're aiming to end up with
commercial printing -- most commercial print shops hate it with a passion
because the output tends to be affected by the specific printer you use.

Ignore the instruction and do the job properly using columns or tabs or
textboxes or frames or {advance} fields or any method that actually works.
 
Top