jimmy
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Post by jimmy on Jun 29, 2022 8:04:56 GMT
Dear all
I have been trying in vain to embed fonts in a PDF. Will someone please do it for me. Modest file. 148 pages
Thank you so much.
Jimmy
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jimmy
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Post by jimmy on Jun 29, 2022 10:47:48 GMT
Quarantined. Always creating unneccessary problems. Same with book design. Create needless issues that the clients are to solve. Sigh
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 29, 2022 12:56:20 GMT
A PDF should do it automatically. At Least Save As PDF does via Word.
But what do you mean by "Always creating unneccessary problems. Same with book design. Create needless issues that the clients are to solve. Sigh" ? It's SELF-Publishing, and if you cannot DIY then you hve to pay people do do the various tasks involved.
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sirram
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
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Post by sirram on Jun 29, 2022 14:34:41 GMT
Dear all I have been trying in vain to embed fonts in a PDF. Will someone please do it for me. Modest file. 148 pages Thank you so much. Jimmy If you are using MS Word, when doing a "save as" to PDF, look for an option to make the save PDF/A compliant. That should embed the fonts into the resultant PDF.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jun 29, 2022 16:53:30 GMT
Dear all I have been trying in vain to embed fonts in a PDF. Will someone please do it for me. Modest file. 148 pages Thank you so much. Jimmy Since you didn't mention what word processing software you're using, it makes it kind of sort of difficult to figure out why you're not able to embed fonts. Knowing how to embed fonts is usually an easy skill to pick up.
One thing about Self Publishing, you either learn about how to use your software or you hire someone to do it for you.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 30, 2022 9:37:07 GMT
"One thing about Self Publishing, you either learn about how to use your software or you hire someone to do it for you."
100% correct. Like I said > SELF-Publishing. However, many of the great success stories you hear around about Self Publishing, often they did pay experts to more or less do it all for them, apart from the actual writing one would assume. I guess the bottom line is, you learn or you pay. And paying does not come cheap. If you are not rich, make sure it is worth it. You may think so, but potential buyers may not.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jun 30, 2022 14:33:45 GMT
"One thing about Self Publishing, you either learn about how to use your software or you hire someone to do it for you." 100% correct. Like I said > SELF-Publishing. However, many of the great success stories you hear around about Self Publishing, often they did pay experts to more or less do it all for them, apart from the actual writing one would assume. I guess the bottom line is, you learn or you pay. And paying does not come cheap. If you are not rich, make sure it is worth it. You may think so, but potential buyers may not.As for the SP great success stories, they aren't the norm. It would also be safe to assume the majority of writers going the Self Publishing route aren't rich.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 30, 2022 22:19:09 GMT
"One thing about Self Publishing, you either learn about how to use your software or you hire someone to do it for you." 100% correct. Like I said > SELF-Publishing. However, many of the great success stories you hear around about Self Publishing, often they did pay experts to more or less do it all for them, apart from the actual writing one would assume. I guess the bottom line is, you learn or you pay. And paying does not come cheap. If you are not rich, make sure it is worth it. You may think so, but potential buyers may not.As for the SP great success stories, they aren't the norm. It would also be safe to assume the majority of writers going the Self Publishing route aren't rich. They certainly are not. To both of those comments, but often it is they who are held up as examples by vanity publishing sites, or sites selling courses on writing and/or 'How to self publish' books. (which is often where the real money is.)
Richness is relative. But even before the advent of POD one often heard of people who fell in to the "Send us your story for potential publishing" trap. "Wow your synopsis is amazing! Send the full manuscript!" Then they ask for $50 to have an editor look at it (as if). Then $150 for something else. Then $250 for something else. And so on, lots of small amounts eventually totalling a few thousand and a shed full of books. Or the one who thought their story was so amazing they borrowed $10,000 to get it pro sorted. Etc., etc.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jul 1, 2022 0:30:51 GMT
As for the SP great success stories, they aren't the norm. It would also be safe to assume the majority of writers going the Self Publishing route aren't rich. They certainly are not. To both of those comments, but often it is they who are held up as examples by vanity publishing sites, or sites selling courses on writing and/or 'How to self publish' books. (which is often where the real money is.)
Richness is relative. But even before the advent of POD one often heard of people who fell in to the "Send us your story for potential publishing" trap. "Wow your synopsis is amazing! Send the full manuscript!" Then they ask for $50 to have an editor look at it (as if). Then $150 for something else. Then $250 for something else. And so on, lots of small amounts eventually totalling a few thousand and a shed full of books. Or the one who thought their story was so amazing they borrowed $10,000 to get it pro sorted. Etc., etc.Whether it's a Vanity Publisher or individuals selling vacuum cleaners and / or encyclopedias, large scale sales and marketing all too often is all about using certain aspects of psychology to get people to sink money they don't necessarily have into something that usually isn't worth anything close to the price it's being sold for.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jul 1, 2022 15:56:00 GMT
Will Jimmy return?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jul 1, 2022 19:05:13 GMT
I would look into my crystal ball, except it's broken, and the shop to get it fixed shut down due to lack of a good technician.
Fortune telling aside, I'd have to say it depends upon Jimmy and Jimmy's motivation.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jul 2, 2022 10:03:04 GMT
Possibly that would be a no then. I suspect he was fishing for someone to do it for him, for free. And ..."Whether it's a Vanity Publisher or individuals selling vacuum cleaners and / or encyclopedias, large scale sales and marketing all too often is all about using certain aspects of psychology to get people to sink money they don't necessarily have into something that usually isn't worth anything close to the price it's being sold for." Yup. Well known overused phrases. 'A million people can't be wrong!!' (Well they can, or maybe it would be 10,000,000). 'Taking the world by storm!!' (and yet I and people I know have never heard of it). And a buzzword from the 1990s > 'Synergy'. (usually used in Ponzi schemes, or even just plain old Multi Level Marketing promotions.) And we have allthingsequal.substack.com/p/sigmund-freuds-nephew-and-marketing to thank for it.
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