Topic: What would you do if, you held the secret to BIR?

[Secret Santa]

Hurry up and choose a title!!!  I need to find out exactly what you've discovered!!  The suspense is killing me!!

He can include instructions for Unclebucks new tandoor oven in there and kill two birds with one stone!  ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

Hurry up and choose a title!!!  I need to find out exactly what you've discovered!!  The suspense is killing me!!

"Currying flavour :  or how I learned to stop worrying and love the burn".

[sp]

For quick and simple PDF creation at its most basic there's always the free PDF-creating alternatives such as CutePDF Writer and PrimoPDF, once installed you can "print" any document (such as those produced from MS Office and OpenOffice) and save as a PDF.

Agreeed.  But don't they lead to exactly the problem that an earlier writer pointed out -- WYSINWYG.  Unless you can select the PDF printer as Word's default output device, the line and page breaks will almost certainly change when you generate the PDF.  Adobe Acrobat (the real thing) has its own printer drivers, so if I set the PDF printer as Word default printer, I can circumvent this.  Do you know whether the same can be accomplished with the free alternatives ?

** Phil.

Of my experiences with those two programs, yes.   I have installed both over the years on many computers, it is used regularly by clients of my part-time IT consultancy business and is installed on all the school computers (my day job as IT tech) without any complaint.  Primo has more configurability (output optimisation for screen, print etc), but Cute has the simplest procedure - it appears as another printer and appears to be treated as such, at least by the Microsoft Office suite of programs.  However, YMMV - it's another (free) option, just putting it out there 

[sp]

He can include instructions for Unclebucks new tandoor oven in there and kill two birds with one stone!  ;D

 ;D yeah, whatever happened to that?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Of my experiences with those two programs, yes.   I have installed both over the years on many computers, it is used regularly by clients of my part-time IT consultancy business and is installed on all the school computers (my day job as IT tech) without any complaint.  Primo has more configurability (output optimisation for screen, print etc), but Cute has the simplest procedure - it appears as another printer and appears to be treated as such, at least by the Microsoft Office suite of programs.  However, YMMV - it's another (free) option, just putting it out there 

OK, many thanks for the clarification.  My Acrobat may be old and outdated, but it is street-legal so I'll stick with it for as long as I can (no way can I afford the upgrade !).

** Phil.

[parker21]

hiya just to put in my twopenneth lol! if it smells like there is coconut in the base but coconut is not in the base then its probably cinnamon stick!
regards
gary ;D

[h4ppy-chris]

hiya just to put in my twopenneth lol! if it smells like there is coconut in the base but coconut is not in the base then its probably cinnamon stick!
regards
gary ;D

You can mildly taste coconut Gary, not smell.

[Willyeckerslike]

I would give it to the community that I have learned so much from.
But if you can make a few ?'s and money is tight go for it!

[Secret Santa]

hiya just to put in my twopenneth lol! if it smells like there is coconut in the base but coconut is not in the base then its probably cinnamon stick!
regards
gary ;D

You can mildly taste coconut Gary, not smell.

You're not just using advertising speak here are you H-C and saying you're not using coconut because you are actually using just coconut oil?

[Cory Ander]

Too many people playing silly little games, it seems to me, at the moment.

Surely the title of the book is the last thing you should worry about.  Surely it is the content that should define the  book...and, therefore, the title...the title is probably the last thing to worry about...at the end of writing the book.

Anyway, all these innuendos, boring.  Just write the damned book.