Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Malcolm Poole
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: Well, if there is enough demand, we could definitely consider this. Does it cost anything to become a publisher on lulu.com? I thought it's free and that you only need to upload the PD

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: > > Also, we'd need someone to design a cover for the books. > My graphical skills are worse than horrible :-) I saw they actually have a few cover templates one can use and a small cover wizard. I do not know how good the end-result is, but it should suffice in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: Well, if there is enough demand, we could definitely consider this. Does it cost anything to become a publisher on lulu.com? I thought it's free and that you only need to upload the PDF document to them. Then the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: > > Well, if there is enough demand, we could definitely consider this. Does it cost anything to become a publisher on lulu.com? I thought it's free and that you only need to upload the PDF document to them. Then they get a percentage from an actual sale. I didn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Corrado Valeri wrote: Graeme written: My problem is the RTL document. It is HUGE! Last time I checked, it was just under 1600 pages. * Has anybody else printed the RTL document? If so, how did you bind it? No printer here wants to bind such a huge book. - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Corrado Valeri het geskryf: > > I suggest the FPC dev team to consider the option to publish on lulu.com I actually thought this was done already. I searched the lulu.com website yesterday, but couldn't find any Free Pascal specific content. The problem I have with Lulu.com is that as far as I k

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > Marco van de Voort het geskryf: > > > > At the uni I had a big 5SI with a duplex unit, so printing double > > sided in A5 format was easy. I usually didn't cut it though, just > > Our company has huge printers as well ? Well, it was more an impl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Marco van de Voort het geskryf: > > At the uni I had a big 5SI with a duplex unit, so printing double > sided in A5 format was easy. I usually didn't cut it though, just Our company has huge printers as well — they do everything but make coffee. Apparently that's an optional extra. ;-) We often p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Corrado Valeri
Graeme written: > > My problem is the RTL document. It is HUGE! Last time I checked, it was > just under 1600 pages. > > * Has anybody else printed the RTL document? If so, how did you bind it? > No printer here wants to bind such a huge book. > - Graeme - > > I suggest the FPC dev team to con

Re: [fpc-pascal] Printing the FPC documentation

2009-09-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > My problem is the RTL document. It is HUGE! Last time I checked, it was > just under 1600 pages. > > * Is it worth printing this document? Or does it make more sense to only > print the language and compiler guides? >From 2000-2003 I used the i