Comments on: PDF Letter

By: Lil

Lil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:43:33 +0000

The PDF file worked fine. I have an ebookwise reader and am converting the PDF to a txt file I can upload to my reader. Read the first couple of chapters so far and I like it! Thank you, Cory!

By: s m

s m — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:48:02 +0000

If the issue is that you're constantly refreshing the PDF to fix typos why don't you just have a printable version that is for windows. I can't download this PDF and I would really like to, is the thing. I would accept the typos if i didn't have to read it on a computer.

By: George

George — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:46:54 +0000

Really appreciate it Cory! Thank you.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:51:10 +0000

It's downloading as a gzipped file, but with a pdf suffix. I got it to work by adding ".gz" to the end of the file name, then unzipping it (I used "gunzip ..." in the terminal on OS X, but you might just double-click on it after renaming it). The .pdf file that results works fine. Great stuff, too. Thanks!

By: sanjay

sanjay — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:30:37 +0000

Umm..when you hit the link it says "file is damaged and could not be repaired." help would be appreciated.
Sanj

By: John Levin

John Levin — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:32:53 +0000

Just a guess as to what the trouble is:

On my PC, the text display is slow, seems to indicate that Acrobat is rasterizing letterforms on the fly...this may be due to a font substitution made necessary by the Apple font originally used (i.e., it doesn't directly map to a PC font, or something like that).

My guess is that a little experimentation with typefaces might reveal a good MAC / PC face that doesn't cause this problem.

Just a guess and a suggestion.

By: Pascal Gauthier

Pascal Gauthier — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:02:46 +0000

Thank you

By: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:09:35 +0000

Andrew -- thanks, I've fixed!

Re problems viewing the PDF in-browser. I'm at a loss -- I know that older version of Acrobat struggle with MacOS-created PDFs, but I lack any means of improving on the PDFs that I generate. It's not practical to rely on Windows users or Acrobat Distiller owners to generate PDFs for me, since I'm constantly refreshing the PDFs to fix typos, etc. I need a solution that works on my PowerBook.

Suggestions welcome!

Cory

By: Aaman

Aaman — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:29:15 +0000

It worked for me - and opened fine on a PC running Adobe Reader 7 - prints very well too

By: gogis

gogis — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:01:07 +0000

I have had no luck at all downloading this book. I've tried the other listed suggestions. Any other suggestions? I prefer the PDF for letter size but I will take anything! Thanks.