Re: Book with LilyPond, community of professionals

[James Lowe]

Rodolfo,

Rodolfo Zitellini wrote:

> Apart from layout and co. I am also curious if anyone has experience
> in making printer proofs and printing lilypond output with high res
> offset printers, ad this will likley be the publisher's output.

Having worked for an offset-litho printers for many, many years the PDFs 
that LilyPond outputs should be enough. Most printers will take PDFs and 
use their own layout software to position etc.

If you are intending on using spot colour then it maybe simpler to just 
give them black and white output and let them sort that out.

Always try to provide some kind of 'mock up' (i.e. what you want the 
finished product to look like with any specific margin or colour 
instruction written on) so that they can make sure their pagination is 
correct before printing and they have a good idea of what the finished 
project needs to be, oh, and always ask for proofs to sign off before 
you start printing. ;)

James