On Jan 4, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
I also found this"review" on the Internet:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HJ5ccXQFsFgJ:
server.boardgamestuff.com:8000/blog/Technology/General/Lulu.com-
Review.html+lulu.com+opinions&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
Hope this helps!
What's prompting your consideration of Lulu?
The review was very helpful, thanks.
Lulu was recommended to me by one of the folks I publish who is unhappy
with the comb bindings I use for everything but extracted parts and
choral octavos (which I saddle-stitch). Libraries don't like comb
binding either, and I myself have always wanted to offer a more
professional-looking binding even though I think the prejudice against
comb binding is unjustified.
Lulu offers fancy bindings at a reasonable cost, albeit in a limited
range of paper sizes. They also would get me out of my
bricks-and-mortar distribution system, since they would allow my works
to be purchased easily online, and also allow for downloading of
unbound copies (at the same price as a bound copy).
So I am very tempted to go for this, though it would represent a huge
step for me--I'd have to completely redesign my online catalog, for
instance.
A young composer that uses Lulu exclusively, warned me
that you need to have your scores created as flat TIFFs, then convert
to PDF (to avoid the font issues).
So how do I go about converting a 40-page Finale file into TIFFs? And
what's the difference betw. a "flat TIFF" and a round one? And having
made my 40 TIFFs, how do I get them into a single, 40-p. PDF? NB: I
have a shareware utility called Print2Pict that also creates files in
other graphic formats--but I do not have Adobe Acrobat, only the
reader. I had hoped to use Finale's save-as-PDF function to avoid all
these kinds of troubles, but I guess that's not in the cards.
It is also a surprise to me that PDFs rely on outside fonts. I had
thought that PDF text was a self-standing graphical image of whatever
file it was derived from. Isn't that the whole point of the thing?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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