Dirtside II - Update

11 posts ยท May 27 2004 to May 30 2004

From: Michael Blair <amfortas@h...>

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:20:39 +0100 (BST)

Subject: Dirtside II - Update

Things are going well but slowly. The text has now been scanned and is all in
word in fairly good order. It needs another run through or two to tidy it up
and
the diagrams need redrawn - the scans look pooh but
that will only take a few minutes.

Once it is done we can see what Bwana Jon wants done with it. I have Serif
PagePlus which can output as a
PDF so I am quite keen to try that - it was bought for
doing character shetes but the PDF does not have the underlines which makes it
useles for that. Other than that it is recommended.

From: Jonathan white <jw4@b...>

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:09:44 +0100

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

> On 27 May 2004, at 10:20, Michael Robert Blair wrote:
Just a suggestion - if you have issues with the PDF export and the
document is in a fairly cross platform friendly format, you might want to ask
a friendly Mac user if you can find one. Recent versions of MacOS can 'print'
a PDF of pretty much anything they can display on the screen.

                                                        TTFN
                                                                Jon

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:52:35 +0100

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:20:39AM +0100, Michael Robert Blair wrote:

You might want to look into:

(1) OpenOffice.org, which will read MS documents and has an "export as PDF"
function;

(2) htmldoc, http://www.easysw.com/, which converts HTML to PDF (among
other things) and allows a lot of fine-tuning.

Both of these are free software and available for Windows as well as Unix.

From: Tony Christney <tchristney@t...>

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:27:57 -0700

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

I have a Mac with MS Office, if Windows is the source. Jon is right, OS X can
export any printable document to PDF.

Tony Christney

> On 27-May-04, at 3:09 AM, Jonathan White wrote:

> On 27 May 2004, at 10:20, Michael Robert Blair wrote:

> to ask a friendly Mac user if you can find one. Recent versions of

From: Dom Mooney <cybergoths@d...>

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 19:20:07 +0100

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

> On 27 May 2004, at 12:52, Roger Burton West wrote:

> You might want to look into:

Adobe also has a limited use PDF creator on its website....

From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@i...>

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:42:56 -0400

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

Hi,

I have Acrobat printer driver files for my PC, so I can output.pdf from Word.
Can do it from PageMaker for that matter too, though more work to format
properly. Let me know if you want to try the Word.pdf thing...

-Adrian

> Once it is done we can see what Bwana Jon wants done

<snip>

> I have a Mac with MS Office, if Windows is the source.

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From: Jim Callahan <jim.callahan2@g...>

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:08:14 -0500

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

I've been following this thread with great interest.  I can re-do Tables
and charts, etc. if need be. Just say the word.

jim

> On 5/28/04 1:42 PM, "Adrian Johnson" <adrian@stargrunt.ca> wrote:

> Hi,

From: Warren Shultzaberger <carol.warren@p...>

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 15:05:15 -0400

Subject: RE: Dirtside II - Update

Are we there yet? ;-)

From: Paul Owen <paul@g...>

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:48:04 +0100

Subject: RE: Dirtside II - Update

I am, I have it all scanned and OCR'ed although some tidying up is required.

Its done Chapter by Chapter and the whole thing zipped is 17MB, I can upload
it somewhere as individual chapters if required or you can wait till I have
cleaned up all the pages, only done the first 4 chaps yet.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----

From: Jim Callahan <jim.callahan2@g...>

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:05:12 -0500

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

Why don't we set up a dirtside account at sourceforge? We can then use their
versioning system to allow people to "check out" chapters, go over
them, and re-submit them when they're done.  Then all Paul has to do is
confirmt hat they are done correctly and approve the chagnes.

Let me know and I can set up the account, or whatever.

jim

> On 5/30/04 5:48 AM, "Paul Owen" <paul.owen@gtns.co.uk> wrote:

> I am, I have it all scanned and OCR'ed although some tidying up is

From: John K Lerchey <lerchey@a...>

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:42:50 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: Re: Dirtside II - Update

I'd be happy to edit chapters if this is set up.

I'd also like to suggest that there be a version with the various errata

plugged in. There isn't much, so it would be easy to do.

J

John K. Lerchey Computer and Network Security Coordinator Computing Services
Carnegie Mellon University

> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Jim Callahan wrote:

> Why don't we set up a dirtside account at sourceforge? We can then