June 2017 E-magazine Wednesday, Jun 28 2017 

Book Design and Book Production and Computer & Software and Definitions and Electronic Magazine and Genealogy and Marketing , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 9:18 am

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What’s It Mean? A-Z
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Post binding:  See Chicago Screw

Point: Unit of thickness, one thousandth of an inch (0.001″).

Terms marked with an asterisk (*) are not generally used in our office.

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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries at
http://www.gregathcomany.com/info/dictionary and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/info/dictionary/writers.html

Run across a word that you don’t understand? Try us – email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on the matter!
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Design Inspiration
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When designing mailing tools, consider the number your are mailing at one time as well as the number of times you may mail over the next year. Utilizing a permit imprint saves you time placing stamps on each item as well as saving money. There are several things you can do with an imprint that will have to be added to your camera ready layout. *******

In addition to retail postage (stamps), if you are mailing more than 200 at one time, Gregath can get you a marketing discount and you can skip the stamps. If mailing more than 500 at one time, first class mail imprint (no stamps) may be an economical option.

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More information can be found at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/shipping/bulkmail.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts – not in this issue
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Marketing advice
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For your information – in case you hadn’t noticed yet: USPS has renamed their business class mail rate again. Add standard mail rate to history along with third class, second class, and bulk mail. For business imprint, Standard Mail is still current, with USPS instructing the change to Marketing mail in the future.

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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/shipping/bulkmail.html
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Genealogy ideas
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The Connecticut State Library is producing a fine online resource for WWI information: http://ctinworldwar1.org/. This is an ongoing effort that may be a goldmine for some.

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Have a tip?  e-mail us

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Computer aid!?!
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As we all continue to look at getting newer operating systems (OS), like Windows 10, keep in mind that not all of your old programs may work on the new OS – even anti-virus subscriptions.

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July 2015 Magazine – Design Thursday, Jul 2 2015 

Book Design and Book Production and Computer & Software and Definitions and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 7:14 am

QR (Quick Response) codes are Smartphone or tablet (with reader app) readable and may be used to to enrich and/or ease customer/reader interaction and experience. Some QR functionality may be inaccessible if not on an active internet connection. This type of code was envisioned as “open source”, so there are wide varieties of free and nearly free services available online:   Start your search with the term “QR code generator”. Many sites that contain generators provide further free information from usage ideas to history and examples.

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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/design/qr.html

 

E-Magazine Volume 12 Issue 3: Design Tuesday, Mar 5 2013 

Book Design and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 10:50 am

Top reasons to publish electronically by disk:

  1. Accessible without internet connection.

  2. More easily definable and traceable sold “copy” then pure electronic file.

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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/electronic/epublishmedia.html

 

July 2012 E-Zine (V11#7): Computers Thursday, Jul 19 2012 

Computer & Software , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 9:16 am

Did you know that you can use the Microsoft Office combination of Excel and Word to produce individual items up to, and including, postal bar codes? When desiring postal bar codes, the computer system will need the bar code font installed. Also, double check with your printer specifications to be sure it is capable of producing USPS readable codes.

 

May 2012 E-Zine (V11#5): Computer Monday, May 7 2012 

Computer & Software and Updates , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 12:07 pm

Be prepared during large software updates for any computer to “run” slower than normal. If you are on a limited or “fair share” internet connection, it may be a good idea to let the update run without placing any other usage demands on it until download is complete. Above all – try not to be frustrated.

 

December 2006, V5 #12: Computer Friday, Mar 20 2009 

Computer & Software , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 7:57 pm

99.9% of the books we produce are from Microsoft Word. However, it will depend on what the focus of your book is, as well as what software you are familiar with, and how much work you want the software to do for you. For instance, if the book is to contain many charts, a program that is geared toward generating these charts would be important. If you are working toward mainly fact oriented and are hoping the program will organize a manuscript, a program such as Family Tree Maker might be best. If you are looking for word processing and are familiar with the Corel family of products, you may not want to learn Microsoft Office. If you are wanting to go with fancy margins, clip art, photos, charts, tables, graphic elements on each page, etc., Microsoft Publisher may be the way to go. The bottom line, like so many other decisions comes down to you. It’s hard to beat making a wish list (I want the program to be able to…) and then looking for a product that fits best. Other factors, besides current software knowledge may be cost for new software, compatibility (if looking toward a hybrid or e-book).

Overall software we utilize most (remember, this doesn’t mean they are the best for you):

Manuscript: Microsoft Word (other Office programs such as Excel, Access, Publisher, and FrontPage can be helpful or used with Word, depending on project.)

Photographs: Adobe Photoshop

“Genealogy” Program (Charts, etc.): Family Tree Maker

 

April 2008, V7#4: Computer Wednesday, Dec 31 2008 

Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 2:16 pm

Today’s browsers are great to help with general searches. Many places and software even load extra search toolbars into your browsers. But, for genealogy searches, don’t stop with that. Become a student of search engines: Find out how you can narrow your search with different engines. Find at least one “engine” that searches more than one. Not used to doing computer searches? Go to ask.com – there you can use a regular sentence to search without being penalized for using words like “and” and “the”. Also consider trying clusty.com – this search engine places your returns by subject. In this way, if you were to look for “Homer Simpson” all the cartoon stuff would be sorted out for you.

 

December 2007, V6#12: Computer Tuesday, Dec 30 2008 

Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 11:02 pm

Not sure if files written in MS Office 2007 are compatible? The truth is that they are with a bit of work on your part. If you are running an older version of a program and try to open the 2007 file, it will prompt you do download a conversion program. If you are online, follow all directions – including downloading other updates first. Your computer can then convert the 2007 file to something your computer can work with. Word of warning though, if the file contains features that became available in 2007, your converted file won’t have them.

 

March 2007, V6#3: Computer Tuesday, Dec 30 2008 

Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 3:52 pm

(part 4)

Economical suggestion for purchase: Look to closeouts or ask staff members if they have any of the older versions available, at a discount, in stores. Alternately, you can usually buy older versions of software reasonably through eBay. Just be sure that the software is XP/Vista compatible – and through eBay comes with any books, etc.

 

February 2007, V6#2: Computer Tuesday, Dec 30 2008 

Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 3:50 pm

What software to use? (part 3)

Especially if you have some experience with Microsoft software, one might consider buying Microsoft Office (instead of single particular program), which will include Word, a spreadsheet/database program, usually a webpage program, and sometimes Publisher. This is a long range planning consideration – especially if you are looking toward being a life-long author. Not every book project will be well suited to a single program. Transcriptions, and columnar data works very well in Excel. This data can be sorted, rearranged and selectively inserted into a Word manuscript – all without having to retype.

 

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