Monday, January 14th, 2008
The last week has been a whirlwind in terms of traffic - over 7,000 hits resulting from various blog posts from around the web as well as various bookmarking services. I want to thank all of people who helped publicize this little project and want to mention below some of the most significant posts:
Open Access News post by Peter Suber (Nov 22nd, 2007)
Teleread post by David Rothman ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
An interesting issue has come up recently with my publishing company - one of our printing suppliers flagged incoming PDFs as being not-printable due to transparencies. After looking around for solutions, I came up with a way to resolve the issue without resorting to Acrobat (which we don't use). The solution is two fold:
1. First convert the incoming PDF to PostScript using XPDF's pdftops. This will flatten the transparencies. GhostScript's pdf2ps tool DOES NOT do that.
2. Then convert the PostScript back to PDF using GhostScript's ps2pdf tool.
Both tools are open source and free (although watch out for GhostScript's GPL license). One important point - pdftops requires a paper width and ...
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