On 18/01/2012 at 11:52, Sylvia Schmidt <sylvia.schm...@jielo.de> wrote:
> There aren't that > many companies around here that will print and bind books as hardcovers > with only three copies. If the company wasn't recommended by my > university I probably would have chosen a different one. On the side of main topic: I find it quite surprising. If that printing company is recommended by your university, perhaps there is some kind of agreement between company and university, and perhaps many students print their thesis in that printing company. And yet they are unprepared for continuously numbered PDFs that have to be printed one-sided? I doubt that MS Word makes solving your task any easier than LO Writer. Or maybe most students send .doc file to printing company? But that should be more expensive, since additional editorial work has to be done (beside printing). Or maybe most students prepare their thesis in Adobe InDesign (which, as you say, is capable of solving your task)? I find it quite hard to belive, since InDesign is really expensive software. But maybe your university has special agreement with Adobe that students can download and use InDesign for free? Going further with offtopic, in Poland there are many small printing companies in close neighborhood of each university building. These companies usually have few photocopiers, few printers and one or two computers. You can print and bind your thesis in almost every of these companies, although only in preset hard cover (they usually say "Master thesis" or something similar on front cover and they look like [1]). So, if you would like to have your name or title of your thesis on your cover, it would be harder and more expensive. Here in Poland we are used to believe that Germany is land of milk and honey. I find it surprising that - at least in that area - in Poland we are apparently in better position than you are. Having so many printing companies around, no one would care about inserting real blank pages into documents - they would just go to another company, the one that has no such prerequirements about documents. [1] http://www.origo.poznan.pl/Graphics/products_76ba860c-6c47-4210- b5ad-28198cf33cb2_1.jpg (short link: http://bit.ly/A56Nqh ) Sorry about offtopic, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts :) . -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
