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Post by Ken on Nov 30, 2020 19:09:00 GMT
What tools and programs are the most popular in use nowadays for creating and preparing books for publishing on Lulu?
What text editors and word processors?
What graphic editors, image and photo creation and manipulation?
PDF creators, distillers, editors?
.....or anything else?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Nov 30, 2020 19:20:26 GMT
What tools and programs are the most popular in use nowadays for creating and preparing books for publishing on Lulu? What text editors and word processors? What graphic editors, image and photo creation and manipulation? PDF creators, distillers, editors? .....or anything else? It depends upon both the creator's preference, budget, and Operating System. Windows users have a variety of tools, as do Linux users.
Since I've already had one Windows loving user want to bite my butt over my OS and software suggestions that Windows users don't necessarily need to use, I'll let others fill you in on what they use.
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Post by JesusNinja on Nov 30, 2020 20:08:31 GMT
I used Windows 7 Pro myself. As far as writing goes I'm using MS Word. Cover design I used Photoshop 2014. I used to use a great editing tool online called Ginger. It added an addon to Word and corrected misspellings and grammar. It would also suggest rephrasing of sentences. They no longer allow free use of it but now charge. It's worth it if you can afford it. Some use Grammery but I don't like it. MS Word's built in editor is not so good. After running it several times and rereading my book I still found errors.For converting to PDF I use dopdf which is free.
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Post by potet on Nov 30, 2020 22:47:38 GMT
My word processor is WordPerfect, my image processor is Photoshop, and my PDF creator is PDF995.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 5:04:47 GMT
I use Apache Open Office Writer, Paintshop Pro and Adobe on line converter. ( to change the cover jpg to PDF.) I also have PDF995 (which I found works fine for converting texts to PDF but not for covers.) I have made a couple of versions of my book (Let's be Kind") in the updated Lulu.
PS I use Windows 10
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Post by hulsey on Dec 1, 2020 8:20:08 GMT
I have Windows 10, Word Office 16, and Jasc Paint Shop pro 9. I have Grammarly for my writing and editing.
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Post by sirram on Dec 1, 2020 10:19:00 GMT
Windows 10, Word 365, Paint Shop Pro 5 (for quick image-editing), Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 (for the more challenging images), Nuance Power PDF, and ABBYY FineReader 6 Sprint Plus (for OCR work).
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Post by Ken on Dec 1, 2020 10:59:54 GMT
Since I've already had one Windows loving user want to bite my butt over my OS and software suggestions that Windows users don't necessarily need to use, I'll let others fill you in on what they use.
Had to do a search to find that.  |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 1, 2020 13:15:49 GMT
I write with Notepad.
Make the text pretty with Word.
Make single-piece covers with word.
Convert with DoPDF.
Images are manipulated with Paint, LViewPro, GIMP.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 14:57:59 GMT
What tools and programs are the most popular in use nowadays for creating and preparing books for publishing on Lulu? What text editors and word processors? What graphic editors, image and photo creation and manipulation? PDF creators, distillers, editors? .....or anything else? Word for formatting, Photoshop for image editing, DoPDF or Adobe for PDFs |
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Post by Ken on Dec 1, 2020 16:02:50 GMT
Word for formatting, Photoshop for image editing, DoPDF or Adobe for PDFs ......and still producing perfect work.  |
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Post by ronmiller on Dec 1, 2020 16:24:39 GMT
I have both Word and Wordperfect. I format and layout with Pagemaker 7. Covers are created with Photoshop CS5. PDF files are created with either DoPDF or Bullzip PDF.
I would not touch a grammar-checker with a ten-foot pole.
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Post by Ken on Dec 1, 2020 16:38:03 GMT
I have both Word and Wordperfect. I format and layout with Pagemaker 7. Covers are created with Photoshop CS5. PDF files are created with either DoPDF or Bullzip PDF. I would not touch a grammar-checker with a ten-foot pole. Sensible choices. I personally ever got to grips with Word Perfect, spent so many years with many releases of Word over the decades. Quite right about not touching grammar checkers. I always assumed that most Lulu’ers that I encountered were strong on English Grammar, whereas for me it was a struggle due to problems with my teachers at school. It was only when I started writing engineering proposals and specifications and having a full time lady editor checking my work that I got to grips with it. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 1, 2020 17:01:30 GMT
Actually if one used a ten foot pole on a grammar checker, it would be best done while in the process of shoving the checker into a hole for quick burial.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 18:43:03 GMT
Word for formatting, Photoshop for image editing, DoPDF or Adobe for PDFs ......and still producing perfect work. Only God is perfect, but I appreciate the sentiment. |
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