Agenda for Tuesday (11/27)

Hi everyone – I have to apologize that I won't be in class Tuesday 11/27. My wife's stepdad has been very ill for the past several months, and I'm in Arizona to be with him before he passes away. I will be back for Thursday's class.

I'd been planning on stepping you through the process of weaving your pages together into a book that can be uploaded to Lulu.com this Tuesday – instead, I'd like you all to work together to put the book together on Tuesday's class yourselves, following the instructions below. On Thursday, at the beginning of class, I'll want to upload the final book to lulu.

If anyone would like to get some extra credit, there are two steps below that I'll award extra credit for.

Here are the steps:

THE LULU BOOK:

All pages must be saved as flattened PDFs. In order to make it easier to put all the pages in the proper order, it will be necessary to name your pages in a proper numerical sequence. The front and back cover will be a separate PDF file, so there's no need to include them in the page numbers. However, it will be necessary to have a table of contents page - which will be the first page you see, on the right hand side, when you open the book (it's not part of a two-page spread).

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY #1:
This is the first opportunity for some extra credit points: someone needs to create the table of contents page. That page should list the authors in the order they appear in the book. Name that page:

001-contents.pdf

Subsequent pages should take up that numbering, so that the first three sections in the morning class book should be named like so (with Matt's section coming first, then Jonathan's, then Tom's):

002-Matt.pdf
003-Matt.pdf
004-Matt.pdf
005-Matt.pdf
006-Matt.pdf
007-Matt.pdf

008-Jonathan.pdf
009-Jonathan.pdf
010-Jonathan.pdf
011-Jonathan.pdf
012-Jonathan.pdf
013-Jonathan.pdf

014-Tom.pdf
015-Tom.pdf
016-Tom.pdf
017-Tom.pdf
018-Tom.pdf
019-Tom.pdf

And so on. There should also be a single blank page added to the very end (this is the final, left-facing page of the book - the back side page of the final sequence).

For the afternoon class, you have the additional task of figuring out the order of the six-page sequences in your book - which one will start the book, which comes next, and so on. Take a look at each others' sequences and figure out a good flow.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY #2:

Once the pages have been saved and properly numbered/named, someone has to combine all the separate pages into one multi-page pdf document. Whoever wants to do that will receive extra credit. Follow the link below to learn how to use Acrobat Pro (which is on the macs, so a finder search for it) to combine the files:

http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/faq/mergepdfs/mergepdfs.html

LULU COVER:

The last thing both classes need to do is to choose the book cover. So please look over each individual "take" on the cover, and take a vote for the one you think is most successful. If there is another cover that comes in for a close second, you can decide to use that for the back cover.

That's it - I hope you impress me with your collective logistical skills. Looking forward to seeing the books on Thursday.