Can we print "free books" in lulu.com ? (was Re: [squeak-dev] Re: The Blue Book on ACM)

Oscar Nierstrasz oscar.nierstrasz at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 07:34:29 UTC 2008


Exactly.

That was the solution I had to adopt for some figures in the OORP book  
that we will be releasing soon on Lulu.  Some figures I had only as  
PDF with unembeddable fonts.  So I converted them to png and the  
problem was solved.

Purely scanned books should pose no problem for Lulu.

- on

On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:54, Damien Cassou wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:10 AM, cdrick <cdrick65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The real problem will be with the PDFs, as Lulu requites that all  
>>> fonts be
>>> embedded. You may have to do some work to substitute non-embedded  
>>> fonts.
>>
>> So I imagine this is simply not possible for scanned books.
>
>
> I would have say exactly the opposite: since it is a printed book,
> there is no font used at all. Nothing to embedded then :-).
>
>
> -- 
> Damien Cassou
> Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
> luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)
>




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