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recommendations for turning a TXP blog into a book?
I hope I’m not breaking any rules here. I’ve never posted on the forum before and wasn’t quite sure where to put this question, but Matthew (ma_smith), my TXP-lovin’ hubs, suggested I throw this question out to you all and see if anyone has some recommendations.
After trying to find a way to get some sort of tangible compilation of all my blog entries, I recently came across Blurb, (a company that will take your blog and turn it into a personal book), and was excited until I saw that it only allows you to import from a few content management systems. Not including TXP.
We’re really wanting to get minismith in a book format to give our sons some day, since it’s a better baby book and tale of their early years than we’d ever record otherwise. Does anyone know how we might be able to do this with TXP? Has anyone heard of another “blurb-type” company that transforms blogs into books for the average-joe who is not wanting to publish or anything?
Thanks for any help you might have to offer!
Amy Smith
(the other half of ma_smith and keeper of minismith)
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Re: recommendations for turning a TXP blog into a book?
Amy, I recall posting a similar question a couple of years back (but can’t find the post), and the answer involved creating a Txp article form to output the post content as you want it displayed, then create a section that pulls all of your posts (set to 9999 or some other very large number) into one page that you can then save or copy/paste into Word or InDesign or such for formatting.
Consider using Lulu, and search the Lulu forums for anyone who may have converted a Txp blog to a blook (Lulu runs the Blooker Prize).
Last edited by mistersugar (2007-05-17 19:24:29)
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Re: recommendations for turning a TXP blog into a book?
Yup, and since XHTML can be parsed as/in XML, you can probably have it imported nicely into something else. Or directly import from XHTML, depending on what tool you want to use.
Creating the page and forms needed shouldn’t be difficult.
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#4 2008-06-30 11:55:02
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Re: recommendations for turning a TXP blog into a book?
I incidentally found this one. And as you said you want to do it “some day” it might be not too late to post an additional hint: do as Anton suggested. But style a css especially for printing for the whole chunk, thus sparing you from copying/pasting/double-clicking/re-styling every little italic span that’s already addressable from within XHTML. Afterwards you can simply print into a PDF.
In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links
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