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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:46:46 -0800 (PST) |
Got my copy of the new tutorial - ordered it through barnes and noble
to use a gift certificate.
Immediate comments:
I like the binding - clean, simple and functional. We'll see how the
paper quality holds up over time, but at least at the get-go it doesn't
look too bad.
I am somewhat dismayed by the print quality - I don't know if it was
the printer or the fonts, or perhaps they converted the pdf to a bitmap
before printing - but the text print quality is well short of what I
would have expected. The edges of letters seem "ragged" or uneven,
which sort of gives the impression that you are looking at a
copy-machine copy and not the output from a digital printing with
awareness of fonts. This could be a function of my copy being an early
print, or maybe the press was having a bad day, but if this is standard
quality lulu will need to upgrade their abilities some.
I was also surprised by the large margins on the outer side and the
bottom - didn't we format to use the full page? Or, if that makes the
page count too short or if we wanted the smaller content-per-page
format for better reading couldn't we have gone with a smaller printing
size than 8.5x11? Failing that, couldn't they have centered the
content instead of leaving the big margins? Or is that a stylistic
decision? I know it's a nitpick, and I don't mean to sound harsh -
just curious as to the reason for this particular decision. It's not a
formatting style I've seen in any other printed book I can recall.
Haven't had a chance to read much of it yet (just got it at lunch) so I
can't review the content yet.
Nitpicks aside, thanks Tim et. al. for making this possible!
Cheers,
CY
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