Anyone can set up anything that is either not copyright protected, or
freely distributable, or they create. I can (and will) modify these
existing tomes to your revised format or any better ones that come
along! I am pleased to see that a couple have sold already.
I also think it would be great to generate these records in lulu's
database (that's all they are until someone orders) with each version.
It could be automated since they use plain old http and allow ftp
uploads. Someone would just have to do what you did, which is to
decide which pages go in which volumes, and run the script.
If PGDG could make a dollar or two that would be great.
On 5/17/07, Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent!
>
> Two questions:
> 1. Might it be better to include the index and TOC (in both volumes), and do
> something like this:
> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/8.2/postgresql-8.2.1-US.pdf
> Vol I: 1-621, 1674-end
> Vol II: 1-38, 622-1395, 1672-end
> (Dropped some other things, I think...)
>
> 2. I'm not familiar with Lulu - can anyone set it up? If
> I would like to do one run of the manuals
> that way, can I? If not, do you care to
> offer that break up as well?
>
> +1 100% for having Postgres set this up and take a cut.
>
>
> On 5/16/07, Ian Harding <harding.ian@gmail.com > wrote:
> > Well, I didn't do that, but as an exercise I split the manual in 740
> > page chunks (maximum size at lulu), which misses the last couple
> > hundred pages (old release notes and index, mostly) and put them on
> > lulu. It comes to $19.33 each volume for 2 volumes.
> >
> > I agree that it would be great to have them split up a bit so they
> > could fit in normal sized books, but there it is, if you want a dead
> > tree version. pdftk is an open source pdf breaker-upper I used for
> > this.
> >
> > http://www.lulu.com/content/863723
> > http://www.lulu.com/content/864445
> >
> > - Ian
> >
>
>