Book Printing, Word Documents and PDF
Time:2010-01-23 10:39:14 Author：Book Printing
I am trying to compile a hard copy book printing of the most popular blog posts on the site, which involved a lot more work than I had anticipated. First it involved identifying the most popular posts and then sorting them out in to some sort of categories. In the finish I printed out the post titles and went through the list with different colored highlighters, not the most hi-tech technique, but it worked for me.
So how do you find out which posts are most popular? To do this I use Google Analytics, if you have a website you can sign up for the service free.
To put picture up on a website they need to be small (in the kb range) or else your web page takes long to load, people get bored and click off to somewhere else. To print out, a hard copy book printing, your picture need to be larger or else they look shit, so I had to return to my source files and convert all my website images to jpegs. You get different types of picture file, plenty of the blog images on this site are Pangs but the printing company prefers jpegs. To do this I used a free bit of program from an Australian. I like this bit of software; it’s cretin proof (I can use it). You can convert a lot of files at six times and select what size you need them.
Then I needed to put my posts in to Word. This website uses program called Word press. I usually type the posts directly in to Word press as copying and pasting from Word gives you all sorts of formatting problems on your website.
So now I need to convert my Word Document to PDF. There are a few options; Word 2007 will do this for you. You can also use Open Office, which is a free, open source version of program similar (but not identical to) Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. As I had prepared my document in Word, copying it in to Open Office messed up my contents and index, so I gave up on this. The other program that I tried included doc2pdf and an Adobe PDF print driver (if only I could afford Adobe Acrobat!).
After that, I had to format my Word document so that it could easily be converted to a PDF (which is what commercial printers need to print from). I learnt a lot from the Word Most Valuable Professionals website. It was not as hard to format my entire PhD thesis as prepare a print ready PDF but I got there in the finish.
Plenty of Publish on Demand Companies will generate a print ready PDF for you. I tried lulu.com (probably six of the largest, it is an American company). There website is modern and well set out, but they don’t have much in the way of customer support. I emailed their help table a week ago and still haven’t had a reply. I spent 7 hours getting error messages telling me that my fonts weren’t embedded, so nice luck trying to sort that out with no support. They are not a complete waste of space though; I have published my eBook with them.
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