RE: Presenting oversize diagrams in printed documentation

Subject: RE: Presenting oversize diagrams in printed documentation
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:50:44 -0400


We have an E plotter...I may try that. Thanks

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

> I'd look into sending the complete diagrams to a PostScript
> plotter that can handle up to E-size drawings. This will
> require some scaling, but not so much as to render the
> diagrams unreadable. Use whatever standard paper size best
> fits each drawing (up to E). You may need to outsource the
> plotting work to an engineering firm or a service bureau if
> you don't have a plotter at B&N.
>
> The plots can then be drilled (I assume these are going in a
> ring binder--leave a wide enough left margin) and z-folder or
> map-folded by any bindery to fit them into the 11 x 17 binder.
>
> When you print the book, insert a colored slipsheet (labeled
> with the diagram number or title) where each of the folded
> diagrams will go. Then, when you get them back from the
> bindery, you can put them into the books quickly.



> >
> >Does anyone have any tips and tricks on how they've done
> this effectively?
> >Most of the diagrams are 11X17 landscape, 2 across and 4-6
> down...in other
> >words, 28 inches across, though a couple or 3 across.

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