and Associates

The design and presentation of your publication is extremely important. It is the cover that provides the initial visual impact that attracts potential purchasers. We will discuss your ideas with you and then turn your ideas into a complete design brief.

We can include photographs or illustrations. Our graphics and design team will work with you and advise you on the ideal page size, how the book will look and which typefaces to use. We will prepare specimen pages of your book and send them to you for your comment and approval, and we will amend the designs until you are completely satisfied.

Contact our Graphics and Design Department at:

graphics@tamarehouse.com

Features of our Typesetting Service

Page design and layout

This is usually called desktop publishing or DTP. Once we have a page design that you are happy with, we will prepare the book page by page to that design. If there are any photographs, illustrations, figures or tables, they will be included in the text at the appropriate place. If we need to prepare figures or scans, there will be a small additional charge.

There are many parameters that are to be considered at the Typesetting stage, (especially if you are using microsoft word,) such as:

laying out your page in 'mirror margin' modemargin dimensionsheaders and footers (different text on odd and even page numbers)page numberingsection breaks footnotes and endnoteschapter fonts; section headings fonts; sub-headings fonts; header/footer fonts

However, our professional service uses more advanced DTP packages such as Quark and InDesign CS. You can, however, produce a microsoft word file, and we will create for you a post-script file, then ultimately a print-ready PDF book block file.

All our Plus publishing packages include Typesetting and page layout. But you may have written a manuscript or document that you do not wish to publish right away, but want to see and show others its design and look. It may also be a one-off book that you are doing for a specific perpose. e.g. a family tree profile book, as a gift, or a University dissertation. Our professional Typesetting service will be ideal for any such project.