About the latest LJ kerfluffle...

I didn't really think I had a whole lot to say about the latest LJ/6 Apart thing, but I keep finding myself commenting on other discussions in more and more detail, so I guess I'll just distill it here.

( Not really all that distilled, actually, at least not if 'distilled' is taken in this context to mean 'short' )

Having gotten all THAT off my chest ... even though I'm not planning on leaving LJ (at least not at the moment, and probably not in the future either), I did try LJ Book, a cross-platform backup feature that converts your journal into a PDF. It took about five minutes to convert my whole friendshipper journal into a cleanly formatted and printable, book-style, 8-Mb PDF. The biggest problem I'm seeing at this point is that it doesn't seem to pick up paragraph breaks in comments -- the actual journal entries are fine, but comments come out as a long undifferentiated block of text; not THAT much of a problem, but for someone like me with a habit of writing long comments, it can make discussions a bit hard to follow. Generally though, it seems to be a nice tool and I like it. (If you select a very narrow range of dates, you could also use it to get your fic formatted quickly and easily into a printable PDF. And if you have the full version of Acrobat, you can create your own custom title pages or illustrations and add them to the existing document ... but that's probably a bit much. *g*)

About the latest LJ kerfluffle...

I didn't really think I had a whole lot to say about the latest LJ/6 Apart thing, but I keep finding myself commenting on other discussions in more and more detail, so I guess I'll just distill it here.

( Not really all that distilled, actually, at least not if 'distilled' is taken in this context to mean 'short' )

Having gotten all THAT off my chest ... even though I'm not planning on leaving LJ (at least not at the moment, and probably not in the future either), I did try LJ Book, a cross-platform backup feature that converts your journal into a PDF. It took about five minutes to convert my whole friendshipper journal into a cleanly formatted and printable, book-style, 8-Mb PDF. The biggest problem I'm seeing at this point is that it doesn't seem to pick up paragraph breaks in comments -- the actual journal entries are fine, but comments come out as a long undifferentiated block of text; not THAT much of a problem, but for someone like me with a habit of writing long comments, it can make discussions a bit hard to follow. Generally though, it seems to be a nice tool and I like it. (If you select a very narrow range of dates, you could also use it to get your fic formatted quickly and easily into a printable PDF. And if you have the full version of Acrobat, you can create your own custom title pages or illustrations and add them to the existing document ... but that's probably a bit much. *g*)