Finally - this sort of issue is better aired in the main Freewaytalk
list. This Actions area is mainly for people tweaking and developing
actions. Although we’re all friends here of course. 
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I’m sending this again as I’ve not seen this show up yet…
I agree with Keith. I was just about to suggest you do pretty much the
same sort of thing and create the document in Freeway. You can use a
service like http://pdfmyurl to create a pdf of the web content on the
fly as the user needs it. The benefits are that you can easily update
the content in Freeway as you need to, search engines can index and
view your content easily, users can choose to read the information
online and, if they wish to, can download the document as a PDF.
As an example here’s a page from the W3.org site:
Links in HTML documents
and here’s the PDF of it;
http://pdfmyurl.com?url=http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html
Easy. You can also mess around with the settings for the PDF so that
users can choose to create the PDF as A4, US letter, or whatever
format suits them best.
If I get a chance I’ll wrap these link options up in an action. That
should make using the service with Freeway a bit easier.
Regards,
Tim.
On 18 Jan 2010, at 10:52, Keith Martin wrote:
Here’s an idea: make a new Freeway document, and make the master
page 792 pixels tall by 612 pixels wide. That’s US Letter in pixels
at 72ppi. Set up margins and guides on the master, and then…Make your page layouts there, using each page in a print-oriented
desktop publishing manner. DON’T make pages longer, break them up
across multiple [ages instead. Use HTML text wherever possible.
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Thank you! You guys are fantastic, and this forum is a treasure trove of a resource. I feel like I’ve gotten a college course in nitty-gritty usable information, from people with real experience and I can’t thank you enough. Yes you’re right, I should address further questions to a design string. Though I have quite a bit to try for now.
Recreating these particular pages would be impossible on Freeway with mostly html type, because they have multiple fonts, squeezed sizes in funny places, multiple different kinds of linespacing. But I will sure use this method the next time I design something. This book was done in 1996 when I was much less experienced in anything computer. In fact, on Claris Works 4. I actually don’t like Appleworks, it’s limited and unreliable- often quits. My Powerbook hates it. But it’s the one I know how to use. Tried MS office - hated it - life is too short to stumble thru all that and search for menus & icons.
There is so much good stuff on your posts I can’t wait to try it all. I do have Adobe CS2 which has InDesign, but I haven’t learned it yet. I used it for a simple book with type only, simple headings, and consistent spacing. I like that it arranges the page numbering for you in signatures of pages. But I found it a bit complicated.
I use Photoshop a lot, but knew nothing of that when this book was first designed. It was originally done for paper printing/binding with pasteup boards, hand-placed type and graphics, like we used to do in the 1980’s in the advertising biz. I made a career change and got out of there just in time; it was already becoming obsolete and of course is dinosaur bones now.
I’ll look into this Apple “Pages” app. That might be easier to learn and more mac-ish.
Again, thank you so much. V.
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