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Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS!

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In message <8ac3113352.harriet@blueyonder.co.uk>
          Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just brought back my big glossy thirty-pound copy of "A Stitch in
> Time" from the bookshop where it was on order (publication eagerly
> awaited for almost a year)
> http://www.knitonthenet-shop.com/PBSCCatalog.asp?ItmID=8805935
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stitch-Time-Knitting-Patterns-1930-1959/dp/0955620651
> and opened the front cover to discover, in amongst all the routine
> rubric:   "This book was produced on RISC OS using Ovation Pro, together
> with Artworks, Photodesk, DPscan[sic], plus other custom written
> software."

> Despite months of discussion I wasn't aware that anyone connected with
> the project had any RISC OS associations - does anyone known anything
> about this?   Who wrote the software?   Is there publicity to be got?
>:-D

The former Crawford printers are likely to be the people involved 
since they were devoting their time to doing/repusblishing Books.

-- 
Chris Hughes

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Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 14:06 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 18:26 +0000
    Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 13:05 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford<gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-17 19:03 +0000
    Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-19 16:44 +0000
      Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2011-11-20 13:59 +0000
        Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-20 15:32 +0000
          Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-20 17:52 +0100
            Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Dave Wisnia at home <david@wisnia.net> - 2011-11-20 18:35 +0000
            Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-20 19:42 +0000
        Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford <gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-20 17:40 +0000
          Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-11-22 00:08 +0000
      Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! Gav Crawford <gc@dentrassis.com> - 2011-11-20 17:13 +0000
  Re: Big glossy knitting book - published under RISC OS! castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-22 08:25 -0800

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