30 Sep
2009
30 Sep
'09
9:47 p.m.
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
I just typed the text into a plain txt file to have it without any
application specific foo and so I will be able to read it in 400 years ;)
image on the right monitor, text file on the left monitor (good to have
two monitors for that!)
After the book is done I just loaded the text file into OpenOffice (I
already searched for some script-related stuff, docbook and so on but I
was never satisfied), set the relevant headline markers so I would get a
nice TOC in my PDF.
2nd step was to recreate the images using the OpenOffice Draw utility and
hook them up to the pages (I just don't liked it to have the original
grey and bad readable images in my nice document so I redraw them)
Then I just copied my cover and the back templates at the beginning and
the end of the document, edited them to match the book and then just
exported the whole thing as PDF.
You see, it is not really automated but since I only have a bunch of
books and not tons this was OK for me.
--
Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
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No way... That's where (at least for now) only a
human can help. And
to be honest, I would have a hard time reading the lower part of
http://files.pofo.de/056.png for example...
Yeah - I must admit I cheated a bit. I asked a friend, who had a slightly
better printed book where it was a bit more readable, to scan this single
page for me ;)
Because I hate
it not being able to search through documents (thats why I
like online manuals - full text search) I ended up transcripting the
manuals and invested a massive amount of time in that.... ;)
Check out pages 58 and 68 in that:
http://pofo.de/P8000/notes/books/Einfuehrung_in_die_Software/1986_12/Einfue…
That's great work! What kind of workflow did you use to create the
PDF? What tools were involved? I think that, by doing that, you
already learned a lot the hard way which others might learn from.