Anyone who can do a final layout?

[Emiricol]

Okay, the 3.5-compliant guide is nearly ready! I have it in .doc format. Unfortunately I am no wizard at formatting and I am not able to get it properly into 2-column form. I get formatting errors I can't fix, and it is driving me up the wall.

I've also got about 60+ bits of decent enough art we can scatter throughout the book, and the tables will need to go into the doc as well.

Please note: The doc is 244 pages without the art or several pages worth of tables (which I have saved in a spreadsheet.) So it could be quite a task!!

Whoever does this will get a prominant credit in the, ah, Credits, if we end up using it


Anyone interested?

 

[DMEntropy]

I'm sorry but I cannot do this. I only have Adobe Acrobat reader. I also cannot get Microsoft Word to format my documents properly on a regular basis.

I can proof read if that is useful.

 

[DMEntropy]

A document this size will be unwieldy to read and to download. Can we split this into some smaller pieces?

 

[Emiricol]

Part of the problem is that when the different sections get put back together the formatting gets all screwy again (I already tried that, sadly).

It is admittedly a rather large file but I can arrange secure FTP access to whoever takes up the project, without opening up the whole site. So it can be downloaded at FTP rates at least...

 

[DMEntropy]

Well, I was thinking in terms of people downloading the file and then reading it.

 

[Emiricol]

I ended up doing a Save As to .txt format, then reopened that in Word. This removed all formatting. I am now going page by page and reapplying the formatting. So far, I'm having good luck getting the things I want in 2-column to work without making the stuff I don't 2-column as well. Might be ready, not including editing and artwork, in just a few days.