I’m new to the forum but hopefully this is the right place to post…
My question is whether anyone is already using Typst as part of a fully-fledged book or journal production and printing workflow? By this I mean taking an author manuscript, converting it to a .typ document that is then compiled into a print-ready PDF that can be sent to traditional printers to print from?
I’m intrigued by Typst and the community around it, but from the little I know it looks to be used mostly for authoring personal documents and maybe some online documentation etc., but I can’t see if it’s being used for more traditional book or journal printing workflows.
Thanks for this. That looks like a really interesting project, but it seems more to do with DIY printing at home. Professional printers will deal with imposition and that sort thing in-house. What I mean by print-ready files in this context is files that comply with printer specifications for, e.g. colour management, image resolution, bleed, font embedding – that sort of thing.
Yes I did once for my PhD thesis and once for a small book that I wanted to print myself. In both cases, it worked fine. I’ve used two printing houses and they usually want a PDF for the book body and a separate PDF for the book cover. Typst can be used to make them both. Make sure that you specify the right #page size because the printers are usually very pedantic about that.
I moved the topic to General since the post content is asking more for experiences than solutions. If you disagree, feel free to move it back (or flag your own post if that doesn’t work), but be sure to also change the title to a question and make clear what help you’d expect in your (potential) usage of Typst.
