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Word Processing
Mar. 11th, 2007 10:14 pm
My brain hurts.
Headache, eyes won't focus. Me to bed soon.
The reason is that I formatted Hilltown for publication today. I already had this done, mostly; everything on 9x6 size pages, properly laid out for binding into a book. Lulu.com provides free document templates set up to their specifications. That part wasn't so hard.
What was hard, and what was driving me crazy, was picky little formatting things that I would change and change and change again-- because Open Office kept changing them back on me.
Turns out this was partly my own fault. I was saving Hilltown in M$ Word something-or-other, which Open Office handles well. But not perfectly. Apparently it strips some formatting out when it converts its native format to Word format, and vice versi.
This time I got it all right, I think. Saved it in Open Office's native format, and immediately burned a .pdf of it. If Open Office magically changes everything back the way it was, I will go bugnuts-- but hopefully the .pdf, once made, is made. So that's done.
It seems OK now. But my eyes are burned out, and I haven't even really GOTTEN to the desktop publishing part of the equation yet.
I had thought I'd have Hilltown ready to sell this weekend. I guess not, but it should be-- well, anything from next weekend to next year, depending on how cranky the desktop publishing part turns out to be.
Headache, eyes won't focus. Me to bed soon.
The reason is that I formatted Hilltown for publication today. I already had this done, mostly; everything on 9x6 size pages, properly laid out for binding into a book. Lulu.com provides free document templates set up to their specifications. That part wasn't so hard.
What was hard, and what was driving me crazy, was picky little formatting things that I would change and change and change again-- because Open Office kept changing them back on me.
Turns out this was partly my own fault. I was saving Hilltown in M$ Word something-or-other, which Open Office handles well. But not perfectly. Apparently it strips some formatting out when it converts its native format to Word format, and vice versi.
This time I got it all right, I think. Saved it in Open Office's native format, and immediately burned a .pdf of it. If Open Office magically changes everything back the way it was, I will go bugnuts-- but hopefully the .pdf, once made, is made. So that's done.
It seems OK now. But my eyes are burned out, and I haven't even really GOTTEN to the desktop publishing part of the equation yet.
I had thought I'd have Hilltown ready to sell this weekend. I guess not, but it should be-- well, anything from next weekend to next year, depending on how cranky the desktop publishing part turns out to be.
