PDF...again
Valamir:
How I did the layout in three easy steps:
Step One: "Hey Matt Snyder how little money would you be willing to take to take my horribly painfully formatted Word Doc full of nasty MS tags and turn it into something nice?"
Step Two: Write Check
Step Three: sent print ready PDF to printer.
Notice, none of those steps involves understanding anything about how the layout was done :-)
If you actually would want to take a stab at working something up, email me. I'm in "dangerously low stock" mode at the moment and currently musing about what to do next. A PDF release instead of or in addition to a print restock is on the "things to consider" list.
Valamir @ aol . com
Robotech_Master:
Incidentally…I don't have my Universalis book with me at the moment, but I seem to recall there aren't any complicated tables in it, right?
It occurs to me that Universalis would be a great candidate for making into other e-book formats. For instance, I could take that Word document and make an eReader file out of it, suitable for reading on PDAs and iPhones. Would be happy to do it in return for the front-matter credit. (I do damn good eReader conversions, by the way. Did Cory Doctorow's Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom and Content, for instance.)
Robotech_Master:
Seriously, Universalis would make a great e-book. You probably couldn't get it into Fictionwise, but a smaller store like booksonboard.com might be willing to sell it for you. Drop the illustrations and it would make a great Mobipocket or eReader book, capable of being read on small hand-held devices.
derthnada:
Well, it's been almost a year exactly from my original post, and I just wanted you to know that I went ahead and ordered your stupid book. You have won the war of attrition. Congratulations. Everything beyond this point is bitching, so if you want to skip it, feel free.
So the book was ordered Saturday, and hasn't shipped yet. I was hoping to use it this week or next, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. I had one of those "a-ha!" moments, pitched Universalis (as I understand it) to my group as a perfect system to do what they were discussing, and...now we'll be going with something else because nobody's willing to wait. I know, this isn't a big deal to anyone else but me, but it's a pointless pain in the ass. I finally pony up for the book, and because of its antiquated delivery method, it's gonna end up shelved anyway.
When historians look back on our time, they'll say it was an age characterized by the heady high of high-speed information transfer. What they won't talk about is me, sitting in a corner, waiting forever for a bundle of words to be carried to me by a freakin' truck. Words, man. Like these. See how fast these reach you?
Ugh...I'm being a total dick. Sorry. I just love PDFs. I will pay equal money for PDFs. I will pay more, in fact, to have what I want on-demand. That's all I'm getting at here. (That, and that my impatience is probably my worst personality flaw...in case you hadn't noticed.)
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