Re: Book "Rebuilding the Aeolian Orchestrelle"

Robbie remarked in 040626 MMDigest:


>>[ I'd like to hear from anyone who has created and published a PDF
>>[ document of, say, two hundred pages and including almost 800
>>[ illustrations.  I fear it's almost as much work as creating
>>[ a traditional printed book, and so the cost to create the PDF
>>[ document would approach the cost of preparing the text and images
>>[ for a printed book.


Creating the work would, indeed, cost the same.  Once done, any of the
editing programs (Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker or InDesign, Quark
Express, etc) can create a PDF file for you that can be distributed on
a CD.  Small quantities of the book can be printed "on demand" (Kinko's
offers this service) if you need/want hard copy, or you can just make
CDs for a couple of bucks each.

The historic problem of having to print 100 copies on paper, and store
them, no longer exists.

Marc Kaufman