TEXTBOOK CREATION: FROM ELECTRONIC FILE TO PRINT PUPIL EDITION

The following information appears on web pages of the AFB Solutions Forum and is used with permission.

• Market Research
• Writing Out-of-House Authors
• Editing/Revising
• Editorial/Design Collaboration (This involves selection/creation color palette choice, photo research, obtaining the rights of third party, materials)
• Page Composition/1st pass
• Includes Photo Shoots, Scanning of Images
• Editorial/Design Revision
• Page Composition - 2nd pass
• Ship to Film Supplier
• Film/Proofs Generated
• Proofs Checked and Revised, Files Revised at Outside Supplier
• Final Film/Plates Generated
• Printing-Additional Changes May Be Made on Press and Not Reflected in Final Electronic File
• Files Shipped Back to Publisher, On-Press Changes Incorporated
• Final Product - 1st Printing Pupil Edition (used for submission purposes)
• State Submission
• State Requests Changes and Publisher Submits a List of Changes
• Changes Incorporated into Electronic Files
• Shipped to Film Supplier
• Final Film/Plates Generated
• Printing- Additional Changes May Be Made on Press and Not Reflected in Final Electronic File
• Files Shipped Back to Publisher. On-Press Changes Incorporated
• Final Product for Classroom Use

Developed from a flowchart provided by Association of American Publishers (AAP)

Oct. 2, 1999.