On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jamie Honan wrote:
> > Now go down to Office Works and get them to
> > guillotine the thing in half and ring bind it
>
> Do you find ring binding satisfactory? I need to print FREE SOFTWARE
> (not OT see) manuals from time to time from my LINUX (again not OT) system
> and have tried various binding schemes.
Well I must say it was _very_ satisfactory, better than I expected. I got
it wire bound which is much better than those plastic crap ones. You can
turn to a page in the middle and fold it around nicely as if that page was
the front cover, you can't do this with a glued or plastic bound book. It
cost $4.33 to get it cut and bound.
> <dreamland>
> I wish OfficeWorks or Snap or ... had a service (via the web) where you
> uploaded a postscript file, it gave you a quote based on number of pages,
> copies, sides, colour, binding etc. Later it was delivered or you picked
> it up. </dreamland>
> <reality outlook="surreal">
Yes, I have always wanted this myself. The problem is the labour makes it
too expensive for people to use. Still all one would need is a printer and
a binding machine, a good small business for someone. The best glue
binding is perfect binding but it is very hard to find anyone who will do
it for small runs.
> A small plug for htmldoc. Converts html to pdf and ps. Nice GUI,
> headers, footers etc.
Will try to remember that one. I like things in electronic format because
they are easy to search and archive. However sometimes its best to print
it out and read it on the train. There is a lot to be said about being
able to highlight, write on and bookmark a handy reference. How many of
us grab the camel book and flip to a section rather than doing a "perldoc
perlop" because you basically remember where the page was.
Rodos
P.S. If anyone wants a book printed, I am happy to do it for an agreed
fee. Black and white with colour front page, limit is about 200 pages.
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