[sdiy] Making eBooks [was: IP, copyright etc]

[Seb Francis]

>As I said, massaging the file. I had to turn all the B&W BMPs into
>grey scale files for the Word Perfect PDF generator not to choke. I
>had to find a font that would produce an acceptable PDF page. Not a
>problem, just work.
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>>The resulting PDF file will look exactly the same as if you had
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>Almost, fonts are the problem. A good word processor and PDF kern
>differently. Letter would run together in a few words as PDF. Again
>just more work that no one wants to pay for.
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These are not problems I've experienced when making PDFs with 
Ghostscript from a postscript file.  Postscript should be an exact 
description of the printed output and it should translate exactly to 
PDF.  This is in theory of course .. I'm sure the possibility for 
problems exists :)


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>$45 - $60 in the US for the site name, and $25 a month for space on
>the server. 
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I can't believe that webhosting costs that much in US.  In UK I am only 
paying £14 per *year* for hosting and this includes all the server side 
stuff like CGI, PHP, SQL, etc. that you'd ever need.  Ok the bandwidth 
is limited to 1GB per month, but that's enough for a lot of traffic.
(The domain name is of course extra: typically £12 per year for US 
domains, £5 for UK domains)

>Thanks, you got me looking at paypal again.
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It is pretty good .. I mean I'm not 100% happy with giving an already 
rich company a cut of every sale I make, but compared to the cost and 
hassle of setting up taking credit cards online using a normal bank 
service, paypal is cheaper (for a relatively small turnover) and much 
easier.


Anyway, apologies to everyone for steering this way OT :)

Seb