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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 07:44 AM
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Creating PDF's from the How-to section.

I've decided to work on creating pdf's from the Evo How-To forums.. I'm starting with the how-to's that are well structured first...

I'm creating word files first then making pdf's. I'll keep the word files so I can add/change things later on and make new pdf's

Anyone think this is a good idea or am I wasting my time

http://www.justchil.net/dl/evo/howto/


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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 07:49 AM
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Nice - got some free time on your hands.
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 07:58 AM
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Yes

Here is what I've done so far:

http://www.justchil.net/dl/evo/howto/

Once I get them all created I'll probably go through and make them look better.. fix spelling etc.. and make sure I credit whoever wrote them
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 08:05 AM
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justchil, if you need any help, pm me. I think this a great Idea and would love to help. I don't want to duplicate stuff you may already have created though so if you need the help, holler.
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 08:27 AM
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I hate pdfs and I work with them all day long.

Really, tell my why it takes SOOOO long to load or install a VIEWER!

Anyhow, if I need to save them, I simply save the web page... file save
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 08:59 AM
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Post Viewer load time

The Adobe Acrobat Reader takes a long time to load on my Mac, but using the application Preview takes less than a second. So I'd recommend trying another viewer.
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 09:15 AM
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So what viewer do you guys think would be best? So far I've done word / pdf.
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 09:28 AM
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I'm actually doing the same thing for a Tuning guide from the posts I've made over the past few weeks...
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 09:38 AM
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Maybe we should combine everyones effort into something really sweet?

Also I'm uploading the word format versions now.

Edit: Actually I'm going to take them all offline for just a little bit.. Going to get everything a little more "uniform" before putting them back online. Should take me 30 mins or so

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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 11:15 AM
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Ok I've revised them just a bit to include the author and the post url.. trying to keep formatting somewhat the same

I've got like 11 so far .. I just picked out the ones that would require the least amount of effort to format properly
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 01:46 PM
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This is a really good idea justchil. Thanks for your efforts.
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Old Sep 7, 2004 | 09:34 PM
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sweet.. thanks for the hard work!




Originally Posted by justchil
I've decided to work on creating pdf's from the Evo How-To forums.. I'm starting with the how-to's that are well structured first...

I'm creating word files first then making pdf's. I'll keep the word files so I can add/change things later on and make new pdf's

Anyone think this is a good idea or am I wasting my time

http://www.justchil.net/dl/evo/howto/

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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 06:43 AM
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Great work. They really turned out nicely.

Kudos.
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 07:05 AM
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Very nice. Let me know if you need any help -- will work for mods.
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Old Sep 8, 2004 | 09:08 AM
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Heh same here.. Need mods but dont have money.. I may get more time soon to get more of them in pdf / word
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