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<blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4592236" data-attributes="member: 70778"><p>Yes I have and they are easy to do. I can still do so with my Apple that only has two programs, the publishing software and Oregon trail, both on 5 1/4" floppy disks.</p><p></p><p>-Get things ready in advance where it isn't some breaking news required in the publication.</p><p>-Use your publication software to design the pages and place all your text onto them for the entire publication.</p><p></p><p>This is where it diverges, but my program just cannot use the newest software packages and would go straight to a printer, but newer publishing software can use a PDF printer/distiller to "print" the publication to from the publishing software application.</p><p></p><p>Since DDI already has a final compiled version then having it all done up front and in advance of any release poses no problem. Go into acrobat and extract the pages of each article to their own file from the "compiled" issue, and just name and upload those files to their location right after you have the compiled issue.</p><p></p><p>The problem may be what is taking time is the improper method used in creating the PDFs in the first place. There is tons of good software out there now that is used for publishing, and even photoshop can do it as well if you are cheap and don't own a decent publishing application.</p><p></p><p>So it is rather easy to create a publication in PDF if you take the proper steps and get things done in advance like any other real publisher does.</p><p></p><p>You do things in advance to allow for last minute changes and updates as well to give time for "printing".</p><p></p><p>If DDI followed the same format that the actual physical books had, then they would be done long in advance save for a few things like the former articles by Randy Buehler which don't even appear in the compiled issues.</p><p></p><p>So it is very easy to create a PDF by just clicking print and using the PDF printer rather than a physical peripheral device.</p><p></p><p>There really is little "news" in DDI as everything in it should be known in advance of what is going on because those news bits are not even present in the compiled mags IIRC form the free period of DDI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="justanobody, post: 4592236, member: 70778"] Yes I have and they are easy to do. I can still do so with my Apple that only has two programs, the publishing software and Oregon trail, both on 5 1/4" floppy disks. -Get things ready in advance where it isn't some breaking news required in the publication. -Use your publication software to design the pages and place all your text onto them for the entire publication. This is where it diverges, but my program just cannot use the newest software packages and would go straight to a printer, but newer publishing software can use a PDF printer/distiller to "print" the publication to from the publishing software application. Since DDI already has a final compiled version then having it all done up front and in advance of any release poses no problem. Go into acrobat and extract the pages of each article to their own file from the "compiled" issue, and just name and upload those files to their location right after you have the compiled issue. The problem may be what is taking time is the improper method used in creating the PDFs in the first place. There is tons of good software out there now that is used for publishing, and even photoshop can do it as well if you are cheap and don't own a decent publishing application. So it is rather easy to create a publication in PDF if you take the proper steps and get things done in advance like any other real publisher does. You do things in advance to allow for last minute changes and updates as well to give time for "printing". If DDI followed the same format that the actual physical books had, then they would be done long in advance save for a few things like the former articles by Randy Buehler which don't even appear in the compiled issues. So it is very easy to create a PDF by just clicking print and using the PDF printer rather than a physical peripheral device. There really is little "news" in DDI as everything in it should be known in advance of what is going on because those news bits are not even present in the compiled mags IIRC form the free period of DDI. [/QUOTE]
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