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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Apr 24, 2000 11:58 pm Subject: Publishing DanceWriting documents in PDF ;-) | ||||||||
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SignWriting List April 24, 2000 My dear friends... I am writing to you while my new houseguests are unpacking and settling in. They are wonderful people, from Massachusetts. Sylvia Gold is an expert in Isadora Duncan dancing, which is an important style of dance from the early 1900's. Duncan dancers fear that if we do not record their historic dances, they could be forgotten. From 1976-1986, Sutton DanceWriting was a requirement for graduation as a dance major at the Boston Conservatory of Music's dance department. I taught the DanceWriting curriculum for four years there. We trained over 80 qualified DanceWriting teachers by 1986. Meanwhile Sylvia Gold needed to preserve the historic dances of Isadora Duncan, and since she is one of the last survivors of her art, she hired two different DanceWriting notetakers to record the Isadora Duncan dances. The book "A Selection of Isadora Duncan Dances, The Schubert Selection" was published by the Center for Sutton Movement Writing in 1984. Sylvia and I have been selling copies occasionally ever since, but we now only have 4 copies left! Plus Sylvia has two more books of notated Duncan dances - "The Chopin Collection" and the "Brahms Waltzes". So she would like to publish these new works, plus re-print the first book. Soooo...the first book was published before personal computers were a part of our lives. That meant that the book was done the old-fashioned way - The DanceWriting was done with ink pens and transfer sheets that placed wax symbols on the page. It was then pasted onto boards with hot wax or glue, and typesetting was pasted there too. The 90 page original document was 90 boards with paste-up. That was 1984. The old document is turning yellow. So I told Sylvia I thought it would be fun to put portions of these books on the web on the DanceWritingSite, and to also create PDF files for download - that solves the "yellowing glue" problem of the old days. But then there are other problems - PDF files are fine when they are fairly small - but the one book is 90 pages of graphics - some photos - but mostly DanceWriting that has to be scanned in as graphics...so that is a very large PDF file. Any suggestions from PDF experts? How do other people publish on the web with big documents in PDF? Do they split the document up? Maybe there is a way to link portions of the document together? Please answer to the List if you know - many thanks! Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l | ||||||||
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