PSA: ljbook.com
Monday, 8 August 2005 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daI was just playing around with ljbook.com and it's pretty neat. It's a free service that will convert your LJ to a PDF book.
My 98 entries plus 285 comments translated into 107 pages at 8.5x11 inches or 133 pages at 7.5x9.25 inches.
The quality is fair; better than I expected for free. The formatting is vanilla, but it's LaTeX [1]. There are things I'd like to fix, so I'll be contacting the service provider and asking whether he'd like help hacking on the code. The way it works is it logs into your LJ, and uses LJ's (API) tools to export your entries, your choice of what security levels, whether you include comments, etc. It then translates from HTML to LaTeX then to pdf. It took about two minutes to process my journal. I changed my password before and after, which actually took me longer to do than the actual book-creation process.
[1] They can also output the LaTeX code, which you can edit yourself. Unfortunately, they don't include photos in the LaTeX version. Whine, whine.
My 98 entries plus 285 comments translated into 107 pages at 8.5x11 inches or 133 pages at 7.5x9.25 inches.
The quality is fair; better than I expected for free. The formatting is vanilla, but it's LaTeX [1]. There are things I'd like to fix, so I'll be contacting the service provider and asking whether he'd like help hacking on the code. The way it works is it logs into your LJ, and uses LJ's (API) tools to export your entries, your choice of what security levels, whether you include comments, etc. It then translates from HTML to LaTeX then to pdf. It took about two minutes to process my journal. I changed my password before and after, which actually took me longer to do than the actual book-creation process.
[1] They can also output the LaTeX code, which you can edit yourself. Unfortunately, they don't include photos in the LaTeX version. Whine, whine.
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Date: Monday, 8 August 2005 09:47 pm (UTC)Some time ago, I learned how to fix those, but I don't remember any more. I'll ask my sweetie, who is much more of a LaTeX guy than I.