[TriLUG] OOo, PDF and Lulu

[Tim Jowers]

Screw LuLu for not supporting Linux and not even documenting this.
Otherwise, LuLu is totally great. Their support folks are great and
their stream-lined process is great. A good experience overall (of
course writing tech books is a huge money/time loser - but that's not
just because its in a recession. I confirmed with friends who wrote
for Microsoft Press and for O'Reilly and others and an enormously
successful tech book is one which nets you $6000. You have to
understand the author ends up with like 50 cents on a $24 book. In
LuLu tyhe author gets more but has to pay around $150 to get going. A
very successful book on LuLu might net you $1000 over two years - I
still hope I can attain that lofty goal. Unseccessful books net you
$1-$100 if priced right - higher is better since it is a niche market.
:-)

Bet wishes,
Tim

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> No need for .dork files!  Linux can do it all.
>
>  Print to ps file and ps2pdf.  I've done it for several books and
> released them through LuLu. Oo Writer is a very great tool for writing
> books. I used 100% open source products to produce my Business Guide
> to Free Information Technology in 2006. The one shortcoming I did find
> in writer was in producing a website of your book. Of course that is a
> special case. I wound up writing some Java code to take the one big
> hue HTML file they kick out and turn it into a chapter by chapter
> website. I think its something like:
>
> ps2pdf14 -dSubsetFonts=false -dEmbedAllFonts=true DaPostScrip.ps DaRevToLuLu.pdf
>
> BTW, one of the original - if not the original - uses of Unix was in publishing.
>
> Rockon open source,
> Tim
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Your best bet is to have OOo save as .doc format, and run that through
>> Lulu's converter process. Afterwards you'll be able to download the
>> resulting PDF, to make sure everything looks the way you like.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Sunday, April 12, 2009, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Since I got good results last time I passed on a message from my author
>>> friend, he asked me to try again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After a lot of discussion ( apparently ), he was told by Lulu that they
>>> would accept a PDF file, rather than .odt or anything else that OOo
>>> would produce.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, he finds that the PDFs that he is producing are being rejected
>>> because they don't have embedded fonts.  He has been trying all sorts of
>>> parameters in OOo ( as far as he knows ) and still Lulu rejects the
>>> file.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for making Lulu happy with his PDF file?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>>
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