Guys, thanks for this wonderful community. I have been interested in economics right from my school days, and it was some 3 years back that I got introduced into the Austrian school. I poured myself into Austrian books since then, and now I have my first book which is a basic, but comprehensive edu…

You can use Inkscape (very profesional) http://www.inkscape.org/ or PDFedit (easier) http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ . I know the work in linux and if you have a normal distribution you have packages for easy installing. I have no idea if they work on windows or mac.

If you want it to be professional, but want to DIY it as much as possible, then its probably a good idea to look into getting and learning how to use Latex. There are plenty of guides and examples for this on the internet. Also, if you already have it in word format or something similiar, have you …

I use Bullzip PDF Printer, which allows you to just Print from any software, and it outputs a PDF. I can create exactly what I want with it (I use it with OpenOffice). http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

Like Nielso mentioned, OpenOffice can provide PDF functionality. Additionally, if you’re on a Mac, any program that can print can save a PDF from the print dialog.

Assuming you’re using Word, I’d make it look as you intend as a Word document and then use one of the free conversion tools out there to export a PDF version. When I was still using Windows, the one I’d always get was CutePDF Writer , since it worked properly and was costless. Note that with CutePDF…

I think Kinsella suggests a “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License”. I forget the whole reasoning behind it but I trust his opinion. If you want to just send me the file I could offer some suggestions on the typography and put in bookmarks like in the PDF you linked.

I dont think the licensing matters anyway… Who would want to make money on someones esoteric economic school books. Only a small cult following reads this stuff anyway, not a money making industry. And the grasp of the copyright enforcers is so small in the area of e-books as to be totally irrelevan…

I found the article. That it probably doesn’t matter isn’t a good reason to choose the wrong thing (and I think I said the wrong thing before).

I know what you mean. I think the way I’d put it is that it probably doesn’t matter in the sense that it won’t affect how many people read the book, but it does matter in that getting this right helps to promote a consistent philosophical argument, and since that’s what I gather this book is then s…

I experimented with open office, and this is what I got the PDF to look like so far: The Dangerous Lessons of 1937 .

Please tell me how to create a pdf and publish my book on Austrian economics.

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You can also download Celtx free online. After you input all of your text into the program, it lets you output it as a PDF file.

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Please tell me how to create a pdf and publish my book on Austrian economics.

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