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These proceedings were prepared by the editor using "desktop publishing" (DTP) techniques. With the proliferation of computers within agricultural ministries and development projects, DTP is likely to become increasingly employed in the preparation of animal traction newsletters, manuals and reports. For this reason some details of the steps and programs involved in the production of this volume are provided for people interested in this technology. The personal computer used for the DTP was an "IBM-AT-compatible" (made by Dell). The computer had a 286 processor and 70Mb hard disk, and was fitted with a 2Mb "JLaser" card, an optional device that speeds up output to the printer and also accepts input from the scanner. Most text was entered into a conventional word-processing program (Multimate). Some authors had provided their papers on computer diskettes, and the files containing their data were converted into the particular word-processing program being employed. Some of the line drawings and graphs were created directly with a graphics program (Publisher's Paintbrush). Drawings, graphs and maps from other sources were brought into the same graphics program using a Canon flat-bed scanner, and were then edited as necessary. Text and graphics were integrated within a specialized DTP program (Xerox Ventura Publisher 2, with the Professional Extension), and printed by a Hewlett Packard laser printer (12 pels per mm or 300 dots per inch). This laser-printer output of formatted text and drawings was used as the "camera-ready-copy" required to make conventional offset-printing plates in the printing section of ILCA. The original photographs were also scanned to produce computer graphics images that could be scaled and positioned within the DTP program. A printout of the page layout including the photographic images at relatively low resolution (300dpi) was submitted to the ILCA printers. This enabled them to make correctly-scaled high-resolution photographic plates from the original photos. The photographic plates were positioned in the offset plates in the appropriate gaps left in the "camera-ready copy". Final printing and binding were carried out by the ILCA publication department using conventional techniques. |
