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DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: I'm older and wiser.

I have thought about it long and hard, and with much conflict with myself, I have decided that I am not going to write my books.

Now, before you guys start saying I-told-you-so, let me state that the books will be written, to some extent ~ and will be available for download from my website as chm files.

I am going to try to release each chapter, along with the respective sources perhaps bimonthly, depending on how much time I can devote to the code.

I am going to ressurect my project DreamDestroyer, and complete it. I am not setting any specific time that it will be completed, due to the fact that my available time varies every day.

Anyone who would like to work on the game with me, feel free to contact me either by PM, email or via an IM service.

I have 2 websites that I have to get finished ~ so that I can pay my bills, butthe time that I do have other than that I will be working on DD.

Later guys.
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Bjorn · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

I think chm is some kind of Windows help file format, right? Why not just put it online?

It's good to hear you're older and wiser. :-)

DeveloperX · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

LeoDraco · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:39 am Post subject:

DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:12 am Post subject:

Nephilim · Mage Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 414

Distributing text in an executable file is pretty silly. What about Mac, Solaris, UNIX, Palm users who want to read it? What about the people who want to print it? What about the visually impaired who need to use screen readers? What about people who need to pipe it through a translator to read it in another language?

Use an open format that is natural for transmitting text, like PDF, HTML, RTF, or heck, plain text. It will be easier for you and easier for your readers.
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LeoDraco · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

Hajo · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:20 am Post subject:

The are printer drivers that output PDF files of the prints. Thsi way you can transform almost everything into PDF files.

I appreciate the idea to put the chapters online :)

Verious · Mage Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 409 Location: Online

Ghostscript is a free program for creating PDF files.

If you combine it with RedMon, you can print from any program directly to a PDF file.

If anyone's interested, I can post a PDF document with installation instructions (since there isn't a nice installer that sets it all up automatically).

tcaudilllg · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

What you could do is divide up the book into pages, and store each page in a JS array.

Then you could simply change the document.innerHTML of the page to the source of the array index that corresponds to the page.

tcaudilllg · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject:

Hey, have you read Bill Clinton's autobiography? It's an interesting read.

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

Hajo · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:25 am Post subject:

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

Hajo · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:14 am Post subject:

There is always someone who wants something special.

But your list has a good choices, I think everyone good-willing can find a format that he can use. I think I'll try the HTML format first.

An idea: use XML and then generate the other format by XSLT transformations from the XML input. That way you have to maintain only one source.