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Re: idea book revisited
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:14:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> <sorry for the delay in dealing with this- i had a long response ready
> to go on Monday and my broswer crashed>
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> I've given some more thought to the idea book and have come up with a
> few ideas:
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> Printing costs do seem to be a major hurdle to overcome. I've done
> some checking and it is possible to print them at a lower cost then what
> was mentioned in the previous thread (~$26 US). They still are
> *prohibitevely* expensive to print and sell as a fundraiser.
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> The best way to overcome this is to make the idea book on a cd-rom in
> pdf format.
How about an .EXE (exicutable program) type thingy? My computer won't load
.pdf files :-(
Josh
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> Some advantages of this:
> -more models can be included
> -cheaper to make
> -dat files of models may be included
> -allows a book to be produced at a later date.
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> There are probably many more, let me know your opinions.
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> I've started work on a website that will detail the submission process
> and outline the basic format and plan.
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> -chris
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| "Josh Baakko" <shi_web@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Goo0Js.4tt@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) load (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Creating an executable program is waaaay more work than creating an Acrobat (.pdf) document. One of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| <sorry for the delay in dealing with this- i had a long response ready to go on Monday and my broswer crashed> I've given some more thought to the idea book and have come up with a few ideas: Printing costs do seem to be a major hurdle to overcome. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains)
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