Hello Mr. Tore, Maciek, Simon, and Mark,
I thought I should post an update... My wife Maureen and I drove the 750 miles to Schiffer Publishing in Atglen PA. It rained all the way there, but we stopped over half way there in Roanoke VA. We met with Pete Schiffer and my managing editor Bob Bionde and their staff; they were all very friendly and are great group of people to work with in publishing Skizzenbuch.
I attended several seminars covering all aspects of creating, publishing, and advertising a book. The facility is really a huge warehouse which stores many thousands of books. Previously I printed Skizzenbuck at the Office Depot and placed it into my metal leather covered post binder. Office Depot printed Skizzenbuck on 11` x 17, 9.5 mil, 80 pound card stock. The book is about 2 1/2 inches thich and probably weighs 20 pounds... Heavy Reading!!!
Bob liked the way Skizzenbuch was set-up graphically and asked that that I send the Post Binder for the graphics entry staff as a guide when entering my coding into the system.
MY CODING... I had to read a Publishing Building Guide and create a text file and a folder for all the graphic files. The coding involved defining all the various font sizes and then listing a command any time the font changes, and a command to insert a graphic file, location, and size. Coding is much more difficult than asking Mr. Tore, or Maciek how things work on a U-Boat. I'm at page 100 in my coding so far...
I believe Skizzenbuch will be very close to the 11 x 17 format and it will be in a book slip cover. I still need to talk with Bob anout the 7 large sheets that I have in a wallet folder in the back section of my post binder. Well, that's it so far....
Regards,
Don_