iBiblography
LJBook is a service that will automatically turn a body's blog entries into a printable .PDF file. Might be a nice service for someone running a course blog who wants to be able to archive without taking up server space, or for students of said course who want to "take it with them." As the title suggests, it's built for LiveJournal, but the site also has beta versions available for WordPress and Movable Type. I only looked at the MT version, which allows you to include images and comments, although the latter are apparently "buggy." It interfaces directly with your installation, so a username and password are required, but creating a temporary, additional user with minimal permissions shouldn't be a big problem.
There's also a link on the site to
a cover story from the Guardian (UK) from about a month ago, about POD booksellers combining with services like this to put out low-cost "blog books." Not that we should be in any big rush to get back to print, but services like this raise some interesting opportunities...
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Posted by at May 28, 2004 08:38 PM
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I don't know that it differs dramatically, but I had so much trouble with Acrobat that I ended up dumping it, so there may be differences that I'm just not aware of. I took a look at the example .pdf, and it's nothing earth-shattering, but I suspect that, for some people, the automated shortcuts here would be worthwhile.