[FM Discuss] Latest PDF of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"

[adam]

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:42 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> A revised PDF of the manual will be found here:
> 
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.08.30-15.48.49.pdf
> 
> It turns out that making a printed book from a FLOSS Manual is not as
> simple as I had thought.  When I got my first printed copy I found
> that the fonts were too small for comfortable reading and the font for
> the preformatted code samples was so small as to be useless.  We have
> temporarily taken the book off Lulu to fix this.  The link is to a PDF
> that *should* fix this.   The fonts are 12 pt Courier for preformatted
> text and 14 pt Palatino Linotype for the body text.  I had to reformat
> all the formatted text in the book to get it to fit on the page.

you are the second person to publish a book this way :) the first was
Mushon. So please record what you did and consider a blog post on booki
blog to explain to others how to do it :)

as for page breaks. please talk to Mushon about how he resolved this.
You will get it better with very little extra work but best first chat
to him for some tips :)

adam


> 
> The page breaks in this book are not the best.  Far too often you'll
> see a section header on the bottom of a page and the section text on
> the next page.  The new FM software, Booki, may give a way to deal
> with this but the current tools don't, as far as I can see.
> 
> The PDF is grayscale because thats how FLOSS Manuals print.  I have
> asked a young artist in Oregon to come up with a new cover image which
> should make the book more appealing.
> 
> The original printed book was 198 pages.  This one is 251 pages.
> 
> I'm going to look at this PDF on my XO and see if I can spot any
> really dumb errors.  If any of you would like to do the same or give
> any other feedback on this I'd be obliged to you.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Simmons
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