| Composition quality has a dual character: it can be
seen in the successful implementation of your design and in the avoidance
of errors in typography. Quality in the initial stages of your project not only guarantees the quality of the final job, but also improves your schedule and lowers your cost—doing it right the first time saves both time and money! Creating and revising sample pages Our quality control staff then review these samples to confirm that each style is correctly defined in our layout program. This results in projects laid out to your specifications—accurately and the first time. Creating and fine-tuning fonts We do this because page layout programs do not allow for the use of
kerning tables on adjacent characters from different fonts. For instance,
old style numbers and roman letters traditionally reside on different
fonts—and therefore cannot be globally kerned. Other examples are
found wherever there are specialized symbols, such as musical sharp
or flat signs in text. By placing all of your font requirements on one
font, we are able to kern all required keystroke combinations. In addition,
this avoids the inadvertent use of a lining number in a book using old-style
figures. The final step in the creation of type for your project is to kern the font—to set it up in advance so that the en-dash will not run into numbers like 4, 6, and 9; to make sure that em-dashes don't collide with p or o; and to guarantee that accent marks line up correctly over each character. Creating a corrected manuscript file We then run out galleys of these final files for proofreading against the edited manuscript. This guarantees that the marked corrections are indeed made and eliminates the need to lay out pages again as a result of an input error. It also means that a final review of pages can focus on page layout, with the knowledge that all file corrections have been made. Page layout Generic's page layout takes into account standard practice regarding
spreads; placement of figures, tables, and footnotes; the amount of
text following heads near the bottom of the page; word stacks and hyphenated
lines; avoidance of rivers and widows; superscript sizing; use of ligatures;
and the avoidance of tracking to justify pages. And one final quality
control review of the page layout guarantees these conventional standards
are maintained. As a result, the hallmark of pages from Generic Compositors is that
they are correct to your specifications—the first time. Because
of the high quality of the first pages, final corrections are minimal
(we daresay you will not find cleaner sets of proof from any other compositor);
schedules are maintained; and costs are controlled. And, as a final indication of the quality of Generic Compositors:
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