I looked a bit around for online publishers. Lulu.com and CreateSpace.com seem to be pretty common, but I really have to get up to speed on their terminology. Setting a book in Microsoft Word also seems to be complicated – the margins don’t do 3 digits after the comma, like paper sizes of 10.125 inches, etc.
Also, I discovered a nasty “feature” of Word 2007: You can ‘compress’ pictures – throw away the cropped parts and re-sample to 220dpi, etc. However, in Word 2007 the standard behavior is to do exactly that every time you save the document. Not really suitable for print, as I still need the 600dpi original picture, and I don’t want Word to do any – potentially crappy – resampling… The option is well hidden. You actually have to select a picture, go to the Picture ribbon, select compress (even though that’s not what you want to do), select “advanced options”, and clear the check mark on “do this at every save”.
I hope I’ll remember…
