From: rougol2025@helpful-demon.co.uk

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

Book Publishing with Ovation Pro
Presented by Gavin Crawford

Monday 15th September 2025, 7:45pm

The Duke of Sussex
(upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Also online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


Joining us this month is Gavin Crawford, a seasoned graphic artist and designer. He'll be showcasing his mastery of Ovation Pro, the powerful
desktop publishing software he uses to create a wide range of publications
from full-colour printed books to digital PDFs and eBooks.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at his process, including a demonstration of
his custom applets - add-ons he developed to streamline his workflow. He's
not just here to show off though; Gavin will be sharing valuable tips and tricks for other Ovation Pro users, especially now that the software is
freely available.

Gavin and his wife, Susan - a knitwear designer and fashion historian, run their company from the heart of the English Lake District, where they
publish knitting books and patterns under the Susan Crawford Vintage
imprint, and run their own dye-house, Assa Marra Wool Studio, to produce a range of hand-dyed knitting yarns.

Gavin's journey with publishing started long before modern DTP. With over
40 years of experience in printing and publishing, he began in his
family's printing company in 1985, where artwork was still created by hand
on a drawing board. His love for Acorn computers led him to introduce BBC Micros to the business to run the customer database and invoicing system
he wrote. A few years later, this was to be updated to an A4000 but after seeing the powerful artistic potential of Draw, he claimed the machine for
the art department, but soon after upgraded to a RiscPC 600. By the end of 1994, all artwork was created digitally using RISC OS.

This deep technical expertise has been a cornerstone of his career. From overseeing a 3600dpi imagesetter to configuring Xerox digital presses,
Gavin has spent decades making sure that RISC OS machines could seamlessly communicate with high-end print equipment.


Forthcoming meetings
====================

Mon 20 Oct: RISCOSbits pre-show teaser
Sat 25 Oct: The RISC OS London Show
Mon 17 Nov: Pyromaniac update, Gerph
Mon 15 Dec: Acorn Biography, Rob Napier


Directions to the venue by car (there is parking directly outside the pub
on Coral Street) and public transport (recommended!) are on the website:

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Or contact us to receive the Zoom link to the meeting:

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

If you have attended any previous meeting, it's the same link this month.

If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London rougol2025@helpful-demon.co.uk https://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol.bsky.social 07970 211 629


_______________________________________________________________ a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk, Moderator of comp.sys.acorn.announce.
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