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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #75 on: May 13, 2012, 08:47:31 PM »
There seems to be two unrelated problems.
1.  Being able to download the file.  Causes short, incomplete files to be sent.
2.  Finding an application for a MAC that will open the file once it is downloaded.

The file properties should show about 4.69 MB if it is complete.

I can send it to anyone with Skype, just let me know.  It will eliminate the short file problem some of us experienced with IE and XP.

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #76 on: May 14, 2012, 06:40:51 AM »
It's not you or this site that I have trust issues with. It is the unscrupulousness of individuals who can take such a file like your e book and modify and re-distribute it and make it do all kinds of nasty things. If It were modified, we would have no way of knowing that it was or was not safe.
Yes, but they'd have to upload it to the RWD server for a wide distribution, and I don't think it'd be that easy ;).

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P.S. Any thoughts on why there are so few downloads?
No idea, it's a bit disappointing - and IINM the counter only measures the views of that page, not the number of actual downloads ::).

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I am still running on WIN XP SP3 with all updates and patches current.
I'm also still on Win XP, and never experienced a BSOD with the book.

BTW, I just tried now with no ill effects ;).
« Last Edit: May 14, 2012, 06:44:37 AM by SANDRO43 »
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #77 on: May 14, 2012, 06:48:23 AM »
OK - in an attempt to get *something* into PDF, I have 'printed' all the pages from the E-book into a PDF file for download. This is a RAW attempt to produce something for those of you that cannot read it otherwise - and it is far (VERY far) from a quality product. I suspect most readers will find the PDF version both difficult to navigate and somewhat difficult to follow due to formatting issues. Nonetheless, it may be found at this link -> HERE.

Please note the file is about 14 MB and the book contains 166 'pages.'

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #78 on: May 14, 2012, 07:12:39 AM »
OK - in an attempt to get *something* into PDF...
Dan, your attempt produced a better result than mine, as far as formatting is concerned :clapping:.
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I suspect most readers will find the PDF version both difficult to navigate
Yes, both internal and external links do not work.

I'd add a notice of its availability and link on the download page, too, with caveats about its size and limitations ;).
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #79 on: May 14, 2012, 05:35:21 PM »
I played some more with Mobilpocket Creator to see what would come out (format still messed up :() and got the attached error message which stumps me completely.

Can somebody shed any light? It apparently refers to the 2nd HTML page of the book, the "About" page containing some info on RWD and its contributors, no fancy stuff at all :-\.

I assume xmlmake is a module invoked at the start of the Build process, but I haven't the faintest idea of what those missing dependencies might be.




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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #80 on: May 14, 2012, 06:27:57 PM »
Sandro, was this created with Mobipocket creator? 
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #81 on: May 14, 2012, 09:11:36 PM »
I think that will work for me Dan

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #82 on: May 14, 2012, 10:02:20 PM »
Sandro, if you send me your source documents I'll work on compiling it for you in mobipocket creator.  I'll give you an opportunity to review the result and make the final choice about whether you're happy with the final product.

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #83 on: May 15, 2012, 06:02:41 AM »
Sandro, was this created with Mobipocket creator?
Yes, I added an extra L unwittingly.
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #84 on: May 15, 2012, 06:04:59 AM »
Sandro, if you send me your source documents I'll work on compiling it for you in mobipocket creator.  I'll give you an opportunity to review the result and make the final choice about whether you're happy with the final product.
TBB, thanks for your offer, but I'll have to obtain Dan's permission for that.

Do you have any idea about what that error may mean?
« Last Edit: May 15, 2012, 06:14:06 AM by SANDRO43 »
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #85 on: May 15, 2012, 09:08:08 AM »
Sandro, any images on that page?

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #86 on: May 15, 2012, 11:04:03 AM »
Sandro, any images on that page?
Yes, 2 JPGs and 2 GIFs, quite less than on most other 160+ pages that give no trouble ::).
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #87 on: May 15, 2012, 12:17:06 PM »
Yes, 2 JPGs and 2 GIFs, quite less than on most other 160+ pages that give no trouble ::) .

I did a quick search on your problem and there isn't a lot of info.  What I did see was an error that resulted from image names.  You may want to try and rename the images.

I don't know how this software works.  Is it taking html pages and making a exe book? 

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #88 on: May 15, 2012, 06:06:06 PM »
I did a quick search on your problem and there isn't a lot of info.
So I gathered, I found nothing relevant on their Forum & FAQ, but sent an email to their Support, anyway - just in case.
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What I did see was an error that resulted from image names.  You may want to try and rename the images.
I could, but I doubt it'd make any difference :-\.
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I don't know how this software works. Is it taking html pages and making a exe book?
It's supposed to turn them into a .MOBI file.
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #89 on: May 16, 2012, 05:03:58 AM »
Dan
You are the MAN!

Thank You!
The PDF loaded flawlessly into  Chrome 18.  It looks fine to me so far.
Of course the links are disabled and the pages are a little off from the contents, but  hey  I can live with that.   Thank You very much for taking the time to do that conversion, I can only Imagine how that went ...

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #90 on: May 16, 2012, 06:27:15 AM »
Dan,

Great job on the .PDF conversion.  I was going to fix all the links, but as I can surmise, the links are totally missing, not just diabled (At least using Acrobat).  I looks like you are almost there with a .PDF version.   Hopefully it will get a lot better distribution now.

I am still LMAO about the 'toilet training' in the appendix.  Should be required reading for any newbies.    LOL!
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #91 on: May 16, 2012, 08:14:54 AM »
I could, but I doubt it'd make any difference :-\.
I did, it didn't -  no surprise.

BTW, I had a look (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats) at the various alternatives for E-books: 29 formats, it's a jungle :o!
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #92 on: May 17, 2012, 09:23:10 AM »
Well, it turns out that the error was due to some Mobipocket Build glitch :-\.

1. I removed the offending file from the list - no more error, as could be reasonably expected.
2. I put it back and 'Builded' the book anew -  no more error again :o.

Behavioural vagaries of 'compilers' 8).

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #93 on: January 21, 2013, 08:18:04 PM »
Sandro,

Any idea of how many times the E-Book has been downloaded?
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #94 on: January 22, 2013, 06:10:51 AM »
Sandro, Any idea of how many times the E-Book has been downloaded?
None, and I, too, would like to know ::). Maybe Dan as SysAdmin can access some SWF data that reveal that figure.
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #95 on: January 22, 2013, 06:15:55 AM »
None, and I, too, would like to know ::). Maybe Dan as SysAdmin can access some SWF data that reveal that figure.

Thanks for the response.  It is such a fantastic resource I was hoping that we could see the fruits of your labors.   LOL.
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #96 on: July 27, 2013, 02:42:56 PM »
I have looked for the link to download the book for 10 minutes. Why not just put the link in the post about it turning into a free download?? Instead, "See post below" is pretty vague.

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #97 on: July 27, 2013, 04:26:01 PM »
I have looked for the link to download the book for 10 minutes. Why not just put the link in the post about it turning into a free download?? Instead, "See post below" is pretty vague.
I agree, it's pretty counter-intuitive ::), the link at top leads to a thread for comments rather than to the download page.

Could you eventually find the link at the bottom (http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=47)?
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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #98 on: July 28, 2013, 10:48:55 AM »
I finally stumbled onto the link when I noticed I "had mail" and read the "welcome" message. The ebook was really good! Very well done.

I'm going to quibble with the first entry in the Russglish glossary though. "Active Rest" is not "exercise/sports". "Rest" is typically a "vacation" or "being away from work". So an active rest means doing something active, like hiking or riding horses or going to museums and exploring a new city. The opposite is sitting at home watching TV or maybe lying on a beach.

Here's a new candidate. This one is missused by speakers of many languages; "Funny": means "fun", not "humorous".

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Re: RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
« Reply #99 on: January 17, 2014, 08:20:06 AM »
firstly, thanks for the site and the free ebook, just joined. As a highly literate computer professional, I cannot urge you enough not to have anything in .exe format! It is an absolute no no on the internet - it is the way most viruses are spread and

Am I ...  :deadhorse:

The PDF someone posted earlier looks good - hell ANYTHING is better than a .exe file. I bet people come to the first post in the thread, see an .exe file and dare not touch. Perhaps, put the PDF link on the first post as well..

thanks once again

 

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