[sdiy] re-publishing typewritten material

[Donald Tillman]

Hey Barry,

Just curious... What technology/tools did you use to do those great looking schematics in Electronic Music Circuits?

  -- Don
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Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
http://www.till.com


> On Nov 8, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Barry Klein <barryklein at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> As many of you know, similar to Electronotes, my book, Electronic Music Circuits, was typewritten without any Word doc ever created.
> I obtained full rights to the material and then utilized my employer's printing center to print in 8.5"x 11" spiral bound format.  I have tried to utilize Kindle Creator, Lulu, and Ingram Spark's book creation tools and just get frustrated each time.  I am not trying to OCR the book, just clean up the pages free of residual black marks from copies of copies etc. and try and correct what errors I know about.  If I were to try OCR it would get maybe 80% of the print content correct but totally choke on the schematics. No way am I about to redraw the schematics.  As it stands, I have the book in PDF form with a file size of about 40MB (334 pages).  Not something you can email.  I am sure there are those out there that would take on the job of doing all this for hundreds of dollars, but I don't believe the cost would be justified.  Books are just getting too expensive to print and ship. I am frustrated I can't just edit and see where boundaries are being exceeded etc.  It looks good on the screen but gets trashed in the creation app.  I don't want to take on the job of managing packaging and shipping - I was hoping for one of these 3 companies to take care of it.  Electronotes will be the same deal: you can't just give one of these companies the "big PDF" (or the physical master copy) and sit back waiting for monthly royalties.