Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-24 Thread Iliadis Yannis
It' good to know that Inigo is doing well under such circumstances. I've found out (a friend of mine lost his leg from an accident) that seeing life optimistic can help you overcome any obstacle. So I wish him all my best and "να είναι πάντα καλά και να έχει μία πλούσια και ευτυχισμένη ζωή". (tra

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Hastings
Bruno Lowagie wrote: > I was thinking of working out a complete project covering all the basic > functionality for book one. good idea. > because I'm not best placed to write about Cold Fusion (the last time I > wrote Cold Fusion code was back in 1998). if you do go that way, maybe give: http

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Daniel Budde
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book ghi...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I would agree that breaking up the book into " the basics " > " pdf " > " advanced stuff " > > Would be a good idea. When I look at how the O'Reilly do perl, j

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
glen.ha...@auricnet.ca wrote: > PS. How's Inigo? (Since I can't read Dutch, I am unable understand > most of your blogs.. ) We have to go to the hospital for a check-up every 6 weeks. So far, all tests are good; no trace of Cancer anymore. He has suffered hearing loss in the higher frequencie

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread glen . hamel
>> 1. "Introducing iText": a book that would introduce iText for people who don't want to be confronted with PDF too much. It would explain the Awesome Idea!!! I want the first one off the presses!! >>2. "Understanding PDF"; a book that would cover the most important parts of ISO-32000, b

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
ghi...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I would agree that breaking up the book into > " the basics " > " pdf " > " advanced stuff " > > Would be a good idea. When I look at how the O'Reilly do perl, java, regular > expressions,sql ... etc they do the same thing. > > May I make one further suggestion. >

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Hastings
Bruno Lowagie wrote: > Or rather: instead of writing a book with 900 pages, I'm thinking of > writing 3 books of about 300 pages (of which only 2 would need to be > available in print). 3 books sound like a good idea. it would also be great if you could cover "best practices" for things like c

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Alexis Pigeon
Hi Bruno, 2009/7/23 Bruno Lowagie > Hello all, > [snip] To make a long story short: I'd prefer writing a new book from scratch. > Or rather: instead of writing a book with 900 pages, I'm thinking of > writing 3 books of about 300 pages (of which only 2 would need to be > available in print). >

[iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, it was a nice surprise to log in, and to discover that all the iText questions were already answered by other people. I'm very busy for the moment because I have a phone call with Manning (the publisher of iText in Action) in about 7 hours. They want to talk about writing a revision