Talking about Publishing Technology of the Publishing Industry

Followed by the rules of the rules of the group.

Today's DTP software is almost all made by adding Japanese version software to U.S. software.

There are conflicting parts between the original Western-language version rules and the Japanese group-version rules. Justification refers to the literal adjustment of the Western language, which is totally different from the Japanese word count.

There is no concept of words arranged in the Western language, and the words in Japanese are square. The premise of font design is the square font. Only by adding or subtracting movable characters can the president be adjusted.

DTP groupware is usually adjusted on the monitor screen in the form of WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get, so it is difficult to unify all. If the adjustment is much more, corrections (additions and deletions) after proofreading will need to be repeated from the beginning. The DTP group edition is usually premised on a complete manuscript, and this requirement is precisely impossible.

There are many operating methods that do not conform to the traditional Japanese version rules (which are not necessarily written rules). The reason why the group editors do not know the rules of group rules is because they mistakenly believe that they can make a copy if they can operate a computer. The reason.

On-site operators are often interested in computer-based technology and never care about the rules of the group layout, nor do they pay attention to education and training venues.

The "JIS X 4051-1995 Japanese Document Format Law" clearly lists the rules of the group rules and has been loaded into various software versions.
The plan to expand this standard into page group editions is in progress.

It is preparing to formulate the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) entitled "Designated Exchange Form for Japanese Document Group", which may be promulgated at the end of this year. When the purpose is to use a computer, the author, editor, and group sender will send the necessary commands at various stages of operation to exchange the files including the group version information. It does not have to consider how each department has a book, so it can choose similar volumes to output.
Although the current DTP group version does not meet the quality requirements of the publishing community, most of them still use the DTP group version. To prevent the decline in the quality of the composition, it depends on the improvement of the software and the education and training of the team members.

3. Production Technology Trend (2) Plate (Photography)

The type of technicians who used the manual drawing work in the past has disappeared, and most of them have been converted to DTP drawings. The manual image-setter for text imposition is no longer manufactured, so text-based manuscripts are handled by DTP.

Photographs are almost no longer used for contact screen screening and replaced with monochrome electronic monochrome printers (monochrome)
Scanner

)scanning. With the rapid popularity of digital cameras, silver halide type analog photography has transitioned to digital photography. This can be directly input into the computer, now used for DTP group version.

Camera color is now almost no longer using an airbrush but a computer to correct the picture.

Color printing is now divided into large devices such as layout layout scanners and the use of Macintosh
DTP two methods.

4. Production Technology Trends (3) Plate Making

The printing plate is usually a method of using a camera to take a negative image from a block copy and then drying out a positive image. There is also a method of exposing the data from a computer directly to a positive image on a film so that photographic printing paper can be omitted. At this point, the images must be imported into the same file.

The method of laser-transmitting computer data directly to a printing plate (CTP, Computer To Plate) has been put into practical use. Direct filmmaking, which does not require film, has been used in small batch printing.

This method of eliminating the use of film does have a labor-saving effect, but its disadvantage is that it cannot be corrected once it is made, and it must be re-engraved because there is no film.

Recently, Adobe has put the Portable Document Format (PDF) design represented by Acrobat into practical use. It is quite noticeable as a new technology in the future. It is a method for copying data from a computer through a communication loop. Transmission technology. It is the method of making the plate containing the data of the plate making genre made by the ordering party directly on the plate of the printing plant. This method is not used in the original printing plant but must be applied in an open system. At present, it has some unstable places, it is still in the experimental stage, and it is only used in a few occasions.

5. Production Technology Trends (4) Printing

As an on-demand printing machine for small-volume printing, the computer data is passed directly to the plate cylinder of the printing press, which is noticeable because it can reduce the inventory of prints. However, its relationship with the current issuer is not harmonious. Only from the required number of impressions, there must be a margin (at least 500 copies) for the commissioned base. It is also possible to consider the use of the Internet distribution method, but it is to set a book to sell one book. The transaction processing of each order is rather complicated, and how to publish the publication message is also a problem. It is unrealistic to distribute data via the Internet.

The cost of producing raw data is exactly the same as the price at the time of production. Therefore, to recover the cost, it is assumed that it is not easy to set prices after selling several books.

Conclusion

Outlines various issues in computer-centric modern book production systems. The state of affairs is fluid, and the predictions in the future are not easy to define. It will be self-evident that great changes will surely occur.

For this reason, we hope that when new technologies emerge, they should not be used immediately. Instead, they should calmly judge their interests from the technical point of view before making judgments.