On 18/01/2012 at 11:52, Sylvia Schmidt<sylvia.schmidt@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 :) .