| Are Blogbinders still operational? Does the website still work? Hellooo?
*listens to echo*
Is there anyone still out there? | comments: Leave a comment   |
| BlogBinders now has support for many types of blogs!
- Movable Type
- TypePad
- WordPress
- Blogware
- About My Life, Dead Journal and Greatest Journal (variants of LiveJournal source code)
- Blogger (albeit somewhat convoluted, we do support them!)
Plus we got a mention on the Professional Network weblog at Six Apart: http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/weblog/2005/01/blogbinders_pu.html Thanks!
Support for many languages in addition to English came with a recent upgrade to our book composition engine. Please write us if you blog in a different language and would like to try us out! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | I'd like to bind just my private entries, but on the content set download form on the website, the only option is Private (and friends entries) Only. Is there a way to grab only entries I've marked private? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Will blogbinders provide service for non- English users/bloggers in the future?
Support for non-English blogs is built into our code base, but there are a few things that will make non-English blog support a little more work for us.
First, our book formatter awaits a patch from a third party in order to support Unicode text formatting. (All text is handled in Unicode.)
Second, we have to check that we have font support for your particular language. Not all fonts include glyphs (letter characters) for everything in your particular alphabet. We will list which languages are supported by which book styles as support becomes available.
If you have a particular language request, please post it here on this thread! | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
| Do you support Deadjournal?
Yes, we are proud to announce we now support Deadjounal!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Some web forums can be downloaded as a large html file. Is that something that can be converted to a book?
We have a lot of requests for this feature. Yes, it is on the top of our list. Though we are getting closer to support for some other types of blogs, we continue to wait for the ATOM API to be ready for use. This suggestion is a great one, and will even allow use by Blogger users! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have a question. It looks like you only print in black & white. I have a lot of color in my blog. In the proof reading can I change the colored text to bold or underlined or something?
Text inside our books is only black & white. Covers are full color. We do not support bold - yet - but that is on the feature list. Underlines may not be supported at all, because of the potential confusion with hyperlink text.
I have blog-city.com as a blog hosting company, do you support that?
We currently only support LiveJournal. Support for DeadJournal will likely be next to roll out. Coming in a three-month timeframe will be Movable Type and Blogger, in that order. Many other types of blogging are out of our reach because they are hosted by a single-source provider (such as Xanga) and no programmatic interface is available to help us retrieve your blog content. To explain this a bit, we consider screen-scraping - the process of trying to parse HTML for your blog content - an extremely unreliable method of getting your content. We rely on something called an API - a programmatic interface - to your blog content so we are sure we are getting the right data from the correct days that you request for your book. We can try to contact your particular blog providers (such as Diaryland, blog-city, Xanga, etc.) but they will pay more attention to you, users, than to us! We encourage you to give them a shout and tell them to develop an API so Blogbinders can make books for their members =) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| A quick note; we will be answering your service queries publicly (withholding identity of course). So, to begin:
I just want to wait to buy my book once you can pull off the image entries, will the newsletter inform me of this?
We are working out a legal agreement to release support for them. Because we allow users to sell their books to others if they wish, this can get into some serious copyright violations, considering most folks use images from all over the net that are largely owned by others. (For example, your friend John might not care if you link to his gif file. But Warner Brothers might.) While we don't think personal blogs are going to be the target of any lawsuits, and we hope that these corporate entities' legal departments have better things to do, we still have to protect Blogbinders. Realistically speaking, this feature is probably six weeks away. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Security: | | | Subject: | Fix | | Time: | 11:55 pm | | Current Mood: | accomplished |
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| We just rolled out a fix for the (cannot be shown) entries you saw sporadically in your books. Now, no more!
The big mystery is solved - these entires are, according to our hypothesis, somehow stored wihtout an encoding in LiveJournal. While our investigation shows that most modern entries are stored as UTF-8 Unicode, for some reason some entries and many older ones are not. But now, we can deal with it!
We encourage you, if you saw lots of this in your earlier proofs, to re-generate your book pdf proof. You should see a noticable improvement. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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