Re: Publishing a magazine

It's odd, actually. I find I run into problems in layout, but that are related to publishing. Stuff that doesn't exactly fit in the InDesign forum. For instance, is there a good on demand printer out there that folks use? How do I calculate leading, which seems, based on what I've read, almost a VooDoo type of process depending on the type of layout you are doing. These don't all seem to fit naturally into the mechanics of InDesign. Maybe someone who has actually published a magazine could steer me right.

Here's a good recent example. We are a magazine geared toward new, unpublished horror short story writers. I have a GREAT team of folks, but we're all basically new at the process. Since I'm doing the magazine layout and design, I get the stories fresh from my editors, but occasionally find the formatting has gone weird or there's 5 spaces instead of a tab for every paragraph.

As willing as I am to do all this work for my friend for free, I'm not necessarily sure that fixing the stories, formatically. (like that word?) should be my job. Is there some line somewhere that a designer should draw, regarding these sorts of issues?

As I said, this is basically done for free and for a friend, but I might run into this on some other job.

Dan...