those things in the editorial department

When Lu Minghong was still struggling with that set of books, they ushered in four 1s. It used to be Singles' Day, but now it has become an online shopping carnival.

However, the editors of Suicheng Club were not very enthusiastic about this, and did not make much contribution to the sales of more than 2000 billion.They have their own holiday tradition - single dog action.

The specific methods of the single dog action are different every year. One year happened to be a weekend. They gathered all the single dogs in the company and went to the movie theater to give the ticket numbers of the good seats. After the end, everyone gathered together and burst out laughing. The more childish it is, the more it becomes a "good story" that must be talked about every year.

"Isn't this supposed to be done on Valentine's Day?" Lu Minghong said with a smile.

"It's justifiable to do it on Singles' Day, but it's too deliberate to do it on Valentine's Day, revealing a toothache, and humiliating gentleness." Liu Chengying explained to him, and by the way, hurt all the people involved.

"Last year we went to Doctor Hill to hold a bachelor party, what should we do this year?" Chen Jiayao asked.There are still many single young people in the club, and both men and women can participate.Sometimes I think it's fun, and married people will come to fish in troubled waters.

Cheng Xifeng pointed at Lu Minghong, "Xiao Lu is a newcomer, you have an idea."

Lu Minghong thought for a while, then said, "Have you ever played real CS?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Du Junshan raised his hand in agreement, "I like this." It can be seen that he often plays field games at home.

Others were a little bit at a loss. Lu Minghong continued: "It's a game of survival in the wild. My dad has a client who has set up a field in the suburbs to do this. He provides clothing and props for rent. Battle. After the fight, you can 'exchange prisoners' and 'make a covenant' to have a good time."

Isn't this just friendship in disguise?

It sounds pretty good... After asking around in the group, it was decided so happily.

But they didn't go on the day of Four 1, but postponed the appointment on Saturday.

Six people went to the editorial department, and the other "old arms and legs" did not go. Including those from other departments, there were a total of thirteen people.When we arrived at the location, we got the props and came out wearing camouflage uniforms. The teams from both sides greeted each other and were divided into two bases.The situation of the two sides looks similar, they have never played before, but there are two more people over there.

As a result, there were a lot of jokes after playing. One of them was wearing a blue camouflage uniform with yellow cloth strips on their arms, and the other was wearing a green camouflage uniform with red cloth strips on their arms. Someone was "beaten to death" by his own people. It is said that the person was stunned for a long time when he realized that a circle popped out of his helmet.There are also people who were stupid to death by themselves. When they were about to sneak attack the enemy, they tripped over themselves, and fell within the enemy's attack range all of a sudden, with a dazed expression on their faces.The other party laughed for a long time after he "beat him to death".

Lu Minghong asked Wu Chunjun to form a two-person team, covering each other, approaching the opponent's base step by step, and confronted the enemy's captain.Lu Minghong's shooting accuracy was not bad, but he only "injured" the opponent, and he was "seriously injured".Then, in order to protect Chunjun, he sacrificed himself to block the bullet, and after the circle above his head popped out, he took Chunjun's hand and shouted: "Go, leave me alone, avenge me!" Then he tilted his head and died.

Wu Chunjun: ...

Lu Minghong, you love acting so much, is it artificial in your family?

Wu Chunjun couldn't beat it visually, so he retreated strategically, met his teammates, passed by two "corpses" who were chatting, and said hello, and took their weapons by the way.

...You are also quite into the show.

……

When both sides were almost "dead", it was finally a truce and a peace treaty was signed.Then surround three ovens for barbecue.It was only after I started chatting that I found out that the other party was a classmate reunion, graduated this summer, and now works in a different company.Lu Minghong said that he also graduated this year and is now an editor. He took the opportunity to promote the Suicheng Club and left his business cards for a few people.

Wu Chunjun was still thinking, when did he print his business card?

After the episode of single dog action, it's time to return to the sacred daily work.

When Lu Minghong was about to finish that series of books, he received a customized book.Although the so-called customized book is also the book of the client, they are responsible for the entire process from topic selection and declaration to printing and transportation, except that the manuscript is provided by the other party, and the others are arranged.

Because the topic seems to be very safe, although the application for topic selection has not been approved yet, the manuscript has already started to be processed.

Lu Minghong first checked the completeness of the manuscript and the unity of style, sorted out the comments and gave them feedback to the client, who replied that he would provide the materials in a few days.Four days later, Lu Minghong went to remind him again, but they still said that it would be a few days later.The second reminder was sent.At this time, the approval of the candidate questions came down, and it was passed.

After the major issues are dealt with, start reviewing the manuscript, and deal with some detailed issues. After confirming that there are no sensitive issues and oriented issues, fill in the review comments and submit them to the editor-in-chief's office with the application number and CIP.

After the manuscript is "clean, clear, and finalized", fill in the dispatch form and typesetting design form, and submit them to the technical department.The technical department is divided into an American editing room and a publishing department.

Mr. Mo from the technical department looked at the plan and said, "Now the editors in the agency have jobs, so let's send out the typesetting of this manuscript. You can ask the editor to make a layout for you, and I will send it to the typesetting company."

There are typesetting companies outside that specialize in receiving orders. Basically, every publishing house and book company will cooperate with one or two typesetting companies. After all, the internal beauty editors cannot always digest all manuscripts, and some book companies even do not have their own Typesetting personnel, but all outsourced to fixed cooperative companies.

Lu Minghong took the design sheets and manuscripts to the editing room.Roommate Xiaolong is an American editor, so I started with acquaintances first.

Xiaolong: "The cover design is usually made by ourselves in our agency. I will design the layout of the inner page and send it to you tomorrow. After you confirm that there is no need to modify it, let Mr. Mo send it to the typesetting company. If there is any problem, it is better to solve it as soon as possible. It's going to be troublesome later on."

Lu Minghong: "OK."

"How many levels of titles are there in total? I'll find the one with the highest level."

Lu Minghong flipped through the manuscript, "There are four levels, here."

Xiaolong looked at the design sheet, "13 sheets? 16 sheets in 13 format is almost 200P, your word draft is 230P, it may be too dense by then."

"It's okay to float one printed sheet back and forth. Let's take a look at it."

The two exchanged a few more questions.

The next day when he received the document from Xiaolong, Lu Minghong checked it and consulted the client for his opinion, then asked Xiaolong to make some revisions and then sent it to the typesetting company.

Next, just wait for the manuscript to be returned. The pure text will be arranged faster. Because there are many pictures in this book, it may take four or five days.

Wu Chunjun reminded: "You remember to confirm with the author that the pictures are copyrighted, and you can't download them from the Internet and use them casually."

Lu Minghong nodded, "I understand."

The design of the cover is not so fast, after all, "inspiration" is needed, and usually two or three designs will be selected.

While waiting, he should hurry up to do other manuscripts. He has two regular clients and has already accumulated several manuscripts.

A few days later, the manuscripts after the preliminary review arrived. Lu Minghong inspected them and asked Liu Chengying a few questions. He enlarged some of the pictures and changed them to bleeding pictures, and then filled out the proofreading handover form and sent it to the proofreading room.The first class happened to be picked up by my roommate Xiao Han.At the same time, Lu Minghong also copied a copy and sent it to the client.

Lu Minghong looked at the cover sample sent by Xiaolong for a long time, and it was somewhat different from what he expected.

The theme of this book is urban construction. The covers of these books use some creative buildings as shapes, which are densely packed but not chaotic, extending from the first cover to the fourth cover, reflecting the perspective from near to far. The contrast of large pictures and small characters increases the impact of the lines in the middle of the cover, reflecting a sense of stern planning.

However, there is a lingering humanistic care in the lines of this book. Even when talking about urban planning, it also reflects a kind of longing for beauty.In fact, this book is not that professional. It is more for the public than for practitioners. It is an old man teaching with memories, rather than a leader giving cold instructions.

Lu Minghong felt that he had not communicated well with the US editor. After all, the editor was most familiar with the content of the manuscript. The US editor could only design according to the editor's description. Xiaolong designed it from the perspective of "urban construction planning".

When Lu Minghong went to talk to Xiaolong again, he was a little embarrassed. After all, it was his own fault to overthrow what he had spent a long time making.But I have to do it. It is said that the "love and killing" between editors and editors is very common. Lu Minghong feels a little ashamed when he thinks about it. Will he be able to be roommates happily in the future?

Facts have proved that Lu Minghong thought too much. After hearing his description, Xiaolong just smiled and asked him to do a dormitory cleaning duty for him, and he didn't make things difficult for him anymore.

Ha ha……

"In this case, we need to reduce the sense of design a little, and the shape of the cover is not completely unusable. Keep a few, place them loosely, add some embellishments, add a few silhouettes, don't do close-ups, make the pictures smaller, and have larger characters. A little bit, reduce the jump rate, the temperament of the picture is milder, it should be almost the same.”

...Blinking his eyes innocently, Lu Minghong felt that he should find some books with cover design and layout design to recharge his batteries.

Lu Minghong processed the manuscript after a proofreading, and most of the revisions were adopted. The client's proof hadn't been read yet, so let's ignore it, and Lu Minghong sent a proofreading manuscript to typesetting for revision.Soon the second proofreading manuscript came out and continued to be distributed to the proofreading room.The second school was read by another proofreader.

When the second school returned the manuscript, the client still hadn't finished reading it. After two days of urging, Lu Minghong finally summarized the comments and revised them together at this school time.Then there is the third school, which is read by the director of the proofreading room.

The CIP has also come down. After the third proofreading draft was revised and verified, the printed sheet and word count were calculated, the pricing and printing factory were determined, and a copy was printed directly and sent to the customer for signature.

It has been three days since the signed manuscript was sent, and then it disappeared.Lu Minghong urged, but the other party's editor said that the leader still had some opinions and wanted to change the catalog.Lu Minghong immediately realized what it meant to "almost sprayed a mouthful of old blood on the computer screen".The publishing department has already contacted the printing house, and it happens that this book can be cut in the queue these few days. If it is delayed, it will collide with other books.

[Suicheng Society-Editor Lu: Didn’t you say you were sure last time? ]

[XX Editor: Last time it was leader A who said it, but this time it was leader B who wanted to change it.There are no major changes, just add a little something and change the directory a little bit. ]

[Suicheng Society-Editor Lu: The text of the table of contents must be changed accordingly, this is not a small change.And adding that little thing will add 1P, so you have to add 3P white pages to make up. The original 14 printed sheets have to be changed to 14.25, and they are still added in the middle. All subsequent page numbers must be changed accordingly. The eyebrows have to be re-checked all over again.Non-integer sheets are more troublesome to print. ]

It's about to be signed and printed. It's a bit ignorant to have such a big change at this time.

[XX editor: Can you adjust it, or adjust it to 14 sheets. ]

[Suicheng Society-Editor Lu: If it is adjusted, it will inevitably change the version, and that will be a big project. Generally, we do not make such major revisions during the signing and printing stage, unless it is really necessary.It is not very necessary to add these contents. The original article has already explained the matter clearly, so there is no need to emphasize it. ]

Originally, he liked the content of this book quite a bit, but the "leader" always felt that his opinion was good.

[Suicheng Society-Editor Lu: Let’s talk about the catalog. On the one hand, the catalog is for the convenience of retrieval, and on the other hand, it can also reflect the spirit and overall style of a book.The content of this book is both rational and sensual. The writing is gentle, firm and soft. The current catalog design adds one or two lines of excerpts under the title. Reflecting the combination of rigidity and softness, it looks a little dull after modification. ]

I happened to read some information about this recently, and I am still enthusiastic about it, and it is now for sale.

The other party seemed to be persuaded.

[XX Editor: Alright, I will convey your opinion to the leader. ]

Soon after, the other party sent a message saying that the leader had signed the seal and could go to the printing factory.

Take a breath, that's right.Most of the time, it is a layman who guides an expert, and it is a hindrance. At this time, it is necessary to use professionalism (pretentiousness) to crush the opponent.

The book is finally ready to be printed. In order to save the time of sending blue samples, and to confirm the effect of color grading on the cover, Lu Minghong has to go to the printing factory to keep an eye on the printing.

Lu Minghong was quite excited when he came to the printing factory for the first time, and asked the people who led him many questions. Although there were many questions that he didn't understand, he had a general understanding of the printing process.There are many machines in the workshop of the printing factory, and each process is running in an assembly line. After outputting the film proofing, plate making, printing on the machine, binding, folding, cutting, laminating, pasting, and packaging are busy and orderly.

His book was just paperback, offset printing, nothing complicated, and he was home before dark.

On the night when he returned from the printing factory, Lu Minghong had a dream—a dream about the life of a book.

A writer writes words on paper, and the paper flies to the publishing house and falls into the hands of the editor. After the editor revises, it flies to the computer of the American editor. After the typesetting is completed, it flies to the computer of the publishing department to convert it into a document, and transmit it to the printing factory through the network line. , making plates, outputting large sheets of paper, folding them with both hands, pasting the cover, the book flies to the bookstore, is taken away by both hands, flipped through, closed, opened, closed, broken, dilapidated, shelved, dusted, Seeing the light of day again, flipping through, closing, inserting into the bookshelf, just like a row...

The author has something to say:

The birth of a book is a rather long chain. PS, a certain rot has always wanted to play real CS, but unfortunately it has never been possible.