Its publications have an edge which excited me and I wanted the scope to publish a new style of text book — scholarship for a reflective student audience. Federation Press has been at the forefront of publishing such texts …. The Federation Press is a proudly independent publisher of books with ideas, publishing a mix of excellent students texts, scholarly monographs and practitioner titles with the emphasis on education, analysis and debate. Our imprint Desert Pea Press publishes high quality non-law titles.
We acknowledge and respect their role as First Law makers and their continuing connection to culture and country in this city. We place authors at the heart of what we do and have kept our editorial team in-house, allowing our authors the comfort and security of communicating directly and easily with their editor.
Production is high-quality and local and we market our books with effort and enthusiasm. We also nurture academic talent providing creative publishing opportunities for new academics, including through The Holt Prize.
The manual typesetting process was time-consuming and laborious, with minor adjustments to the text at late stages in production could involve significant amounts of rework. Landscape tables and graphics had to be created separately for prepress insertion by the printer, who charged extra for this work. Even without graphics, most books were too long for Word to handle in a single file, so books were broken down into chapters and sections, and individual PDFs of these files were sent to the printer in A4 size, regardless of final trim requirements.
The printer then amalgamated the files, set the trim, and inserted landscape tables as part of the prepress work. The table of contents was also created manually. The final press files also remained with the printer. With the assistance of a Typefi Solutions Consultant, the Federation Press team identified three main types of books by structure:. A fourth structure type—annotated legislation—was added to the mix a year or so later.
A set of master Adobe InDesign templates was developed for each structure, with provision for output in a variety of print sizes. Design work on these templates was performed by two freelance designers as needed. The editorial team continued to author and edit in Microsoft Word, using the Typefi Writer Word add-in to prepare the files for production. With the click of a button, Typefi Workgroup automatically composes the editorial content into the pre-prepared design templates and rapidly renders it as a print-ready PDF.
Initially, production rates were slower following the implementation of Typefi Workgroup as the two editors learned the new system, revised their workflows, and worked with the designers on refining templates. However, six months after implementation, one of the editors left the company.
The single remaining editor continued to maintain the existing production rate at just under 40 books per year over the subsequent two years. Typefi Workgroup now automatically takes care of many tasks previously done manually in Word, including the table of contents, running headers and pagination. Using Adobe InDesign templates has enabled more flexibility in layout and design. Graphics are simply inserted as links in the Microsoft Word source document, and the images are then placed into the layout during the automatic composition process.
Entire books can be proofed at any stage before going to the printer, and any errors or late changes to content and design can be rectified quickly and easily in-house without time-intensive reformatting.
According to co-founder Chris Holt, the ability to produce industry-standard press-ready files in-house—complete with trim marks—enabled the company to obtain competitive quotes from more printers, leading in some cases to cheaper printing costs. Template design changes automatically applied during book production could also reduce the page count, leading to further savings. A simple layout change on the InDesign template—moving the page numbers from the bottom to the top alongside the running header—increased the lines of text that would fit on each page, and reduced the page count to Instead of several days of intensive work reformatting all the pages manually, the layout update and rerunning of the entire job took just a few hours.
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Overcoming an inefficient manual typesetting process For many years, The Federation Press undertook both editing and typesetting in Microsoft Word, allowing the team to maintain all production processes in-house except cover design and printing.
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