Presentation given at Bathcamp http://bathcamp.org/2010/07/19/bathcamp-evening-meetup-15/

1. PDF?
No thanks.
Postscript please!

2. First, a little
background on me...
(Might explain why I'm a little obsessed)

5. How do you preserve access to a
Word95 .doc?

6. How do you preserve access to the
game 'Lemmings'?

7. You are affected by the
format and medium in
which the information
is in...

8. Faithful representation?
Or migrated to the most useful or
most expected form?

12. http://www.pepysdiary.com/

14. http://walterocner.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/some-
thoughts-about-jack-kerouac-and-on-the-road/

15. How does the reading experience differ from the book
version?

16. Aha! A book I can format-shift!

17. A Citizen CBM-1000 till printer! (skip to the end....)

20. But how do you make
a normal book by hand
from a digital file?

21. http://www.reuels.com/reuels/Book_Binding_Instruction.html

22. Now, turn your document into a
postscript file.
No PDFs beyond this point!
Eg “pdf2ps myfile.pdf
mybetterfile.ps”

23. Why no PDFs?
The tools to manipulate them are
not good or 'rare'.
And the horrific nature of how
PDF stores text doesn't help either.

24. psselect -p_,_,-,_,_ infile.ps outfile.ps

25. Again, from psutils – psbook
psbook -s16 infile.ps outfile.ps

26. Print-time! – setup the printer to
print two pages per A4 sheet and
duplex.
You may wish to combine the
page pairs onto single sheets...
how?
Again, psutils to the rescue!

27. pstops '2:0L@0.6(20cm,2cm)
+1L@0.6(20cm,15cm)' infile.ps
dualpages.ps
psnup -2 dualpages.ps combo.ps
Er, what?
See → http://bit.ly/cDwzcp

28. ... 0L ....
0L@0.6(20cm,2cm)
… 1L ....
1L@0.6(20cm,15cm)

29. Bookbinding tools

39. Ebooks... easier to
carry, faster to get,
looks like a book.
Will the make the
book irrelevant?

40. No.
They make books and
paper goods even more
special.

44. What should we do
with the redundant
books then?

45. Brian Dettmer

50. Georgia Russell

54. Thank you for your time!
I'm Ben O'Steen, @benosteen, and even
bosteen@gmail.com

56. The Citizen CBM-1000 till printer!

57. Would printing
'receipts' help visualise
the cost?
(credit to @davechallis for the idea)

62. And how about
printing a twitter
timeline?

63. The #dev8d tweetstream