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Hello!
I am in the process of writing a story. Since it will have several pictures and it's somewhat critical that they are aligned right I would like to put it out as a PDF.
Can anyone recommend the best way of doing this? Is it possible to do it at Bigcloset? Should I post it at another site? Should I forget about it? (I hope not!)
Any advice would he appreciated.
//Kay
Open Office
openoffice.org
it has all the features of MS Office, it's free, and allows you to save as .pdf
print to pdf
Cutepdf is a pdf creator which works like an ordinary printer driver and installs as such.
For Windows only I should add; but I'm sure there are similar products for other Operating Systems.
An alternative is Primopdf also free and for Windows.
You can create; using any software you like then "print" it to a pdf file. you can select the size of "paper" which is output by the driver although A4 size is the default so you would need to experiment to find your preferred document page width.
I use this for printing on-line receipts and occasional web pages etc. and it works perfectly.
Even better its FREE; unless you want/need the "pro" version which most people won't/don't.
Try it and see if it works for you. As for publishing; ask our helpful Administrator; but for my 2 cents worth; you can always add a link to your pdf file elsewhere if it can't be done here in BC.
HTH
good luck :-)
Link to PDF
Hi
It has been a while and it appears to still be there ... to link to a PDF do the following
Perform Create Content on the righthand menu, and select the content type ... I normally use Fiction. This will open up a page titled Submit Fiction.
Just below the Body area(about half way down the page) should be a phrase "Insert image or link"
Click on link
A pop-up window will show to aid you uploading the item. Once uploaded you can select it at the top area of the pop-up, and click Add. This will put a link into the story body.
Regards
Karen
pics in stories
why bother with pdf in the first place?
there's bunches of pics in stories here, i take it it's html encoded.
i'm sure sephrena or erin will help you.
PDFs
Ordinarily, you'd create a storylink and point to an external location where the PDF file lived. Although images can be inserted in text, they either have to be uploaded -- and there's a limit on total file size -- or they have to be pointed to in the external world.
You'd have to talk directly to Erin about possible exception handling. I should point out that there are many sites which offer free space for blogs and the like, so finding a host for your PDFs shouldn't be difficult, even without special arrangements on Erin's part.
You can create up to five host sites in Googlepages, for example, and each has a 100MB limit on files without restricting file types, so you can host full-size pictures, PDFs, and other things.
Please be aware, however, that the file size limits are intended to be considerate of people who use dial-up access, and by working around the site standards you're also inconveniencing many site visitors.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Thanks!
Actually, the story is written in Word and I can easily create a PDf file. My problem is or was that I'm not sure where to post it. Icould go FM and I might (but I like Bigcloset better, no offence!) but then I will have to upload all pictures, create manual links in the document and so on.
The pictures are very small but there are quite a few of them. That said the file is less than 1Mb and should download fine to just about anything.
It's just that I haven't seen any PDF content here really and I do want to stay within adapted praxis.
PDF Storylinks
If you go to the Search box at the top of the page, you can perform a search on either Storylink or PDF. They're not exactly thick on the ground, except as links to sites where one can purchase a downloadable version of a story, but they do exist. Maddy Bell makes a lot of her stories available in paid formats, for example, as well as the free versions as HTML. Free PDF stories do exist, however, and if you're patient, you'll find a few.
Here's one, not a storylink, but perfectly reasonable considering the multiple formats used:
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/9901/wishes-fulfilledc...
You might consider this method in any case. We have low vision users on this site, and many low vision users find PDF's notoriously difficult to access. There are plenty of people here who can help you learn how to place images in stories with moderate accuracy and far more accessibility.
Here's one by me, for eample:
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/19347/paragraphs
This particular example uses the "align" attribute to allow the images to "float" to the left or the right, which causes them to keep their relationship to the paragraphs they precede and still allows users to increase text size (for accessibility) without causing horizontal scroll bars to appear.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style