If this noob knew what he was doing anyway, he would be
using a Mac -
especially when PDF is built in to the OS. File -> Print
on anything
will give you the option to save as a PDF.
Thomas Jones
notquiteleet gmail.com
http://www.notquiteleet.c
om
One should guard against preaching to young people success
in the
customary form as the main aim in life. The most important
motive for
work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in
its
result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community.
-Albert Einstein, On Education
On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Fred Damstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:51 AM, db wrote:
>> My view is that you should make your work available
to users of
>> non-windows operating systems (and even if I were a
windows user, I
>> would think twice before running an exe file
downloaded from unknown
>> source).
>
> Same issues for me.
> 1) I'm not going to run a strange .exe from a website.
> 2) Assuming it's not a virus/rootkit, the fact that
it's an exe means
> I wouldn't be able to read it on my Linux laptop, and
probably you've
> put other DRM measures in such as an inability to print
or
> cut-and-paste. All of these greatly reduce the value
of your ebook,
> and probably won't stop anybody who really wants to
copy it anyhow.
>
> Rethink releasing it as a pdf. Here's a good editorial
to read:
> http://db.tidbits.
com/article/9641
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