michael said:
Gods and Fighting Men
ok, just so we can all get "on the same page", i've run out a first draft of this book as a .pdf.
it's got some problems, notably with orphans, including more than one page with one word, but that's ok for the time being. michael, how would this .pdf fit your needs? (you'll need to print a few pages to evaluate.) what, if anything, would need to be changed? -bowerbird p.s. why can't people pick a _short_ book for demo purposes? long books clog the works...
i've run out a first draft of this book as a .pdf.
I won't be able to run off some pages until tomorrow, but the PDF looks quite good. Offhand, though, the page numbers look like they drop low enough that they _could_ be out of the printable area.
p.s. why can't people pick a _short_ book for demo purposes? long books clog the works...
Aww, come on. That wouldn't be any fun, now would it? :) Seriously, though shorter works are poor representatives of the problem at hand. Picking the Declaration of Independence, or TS Eliot's the Wasteland, would be too simple to print up as is and ignore the issues, load up in a word processor, or manually mark up. -Michael Excerpts from Bowerbird's message of Sat Apr 17 13:13:30 -0500 2010:
michael said:
Gods and Fighting Men
ok, just so we can all get "on the same page", i've run out a first draft of this book as a .pdf.
it's got some problems, notably with orphans, including more than one page with one word, but that's ok for the time being.
michael, how would this .pdf fit your needs? (you'll need to print a few pages to evaluate.) what, if anything, would need to be changed?
-bowerbird
p.s. why can't people pick a _short_ book for demo purposes? long books clog the works... -- Michael McDermott www.mad-computer-scientist.com
First time I tried downloading this is didn't work. Tried it again later from a different computer and it worked. Tried printing out the first 10 pages. My printer reported that the document requested C5 page size - but the C series is an envelope size? I would have expected A4 or US "Letter" size. First Page title appears to print off center to the left. Contents in an unusually small font Page numbers in an unusually large font Ragged Right is an unusual convention for a PDF document Body font seems to be unusually small. Line length of approx 70 chars seems unusually long for a book-like format. Most books use about 50 chars per line of text because doing so makes the book more readable.
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