About PDF Titles
For Customer Service and help with ordering a PDF book online see our Customer Service Page for more contact information. This page is here to answer a few questions about PDF and printing your PDF title.
If you have any problems with an order or have trouble viewing a purchased document, please contact Bookshock Customer Service.
What is PDF?
PDF stands for Portable Document Format
and Adobe is happy to offer a free PDF viewer at their website.
PDF documents accommodate all platforms i.e.. Mac, Windows, Linux.
With a PDF viewer, the document will render and print exactly
on each platform. A PDF title from Bookshock can be printed exactly
like it would be as a bound title.
Where can I get a PDF viewer?
Adobe offers their Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free for personal use. When you are ready to download Acrobat Reader, see the Links Page for a link to the Adobe Homepage. There you can obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader which is free for personal use.
Can I print a purchased PDF book?
The Bookshock sales agreement allows you to print one copy of a purchased PDF title. For more information see the Sales Agreement. Each Bookshock title is presented in PDF, so that it can be printed if the purchaser wishes to own it as a hard copy. See the instructions below for details on how to efficiently print a PDF document.
How do I print on both sides of a page?
Adobe Acrobat Reader easily allows you to print the odd numbered pages and then the even numbered pages. To print a book double sided, prepare half as many pages as the book is total and place them in your ink jet or laser printer. Using Acrobat Reader, open the PDF book and select File -> Print and then select Print All Odd Pages. When all of the odd numbered pages are printed. Take the printed stack and place it into the printer with the blank sides ready for printing. ( Be sure to put the stack of printed pages in the right way or the pages will print upside down. ) Select File -> Print again and this time select, Print All Even Pages. This will print the correct even numbered page to the back of each already printed, odd numbered page. A properly printed book opened up has the odd number of pages on the right and the even numbered pages on the left.
How do I print the cover?
Because the cover of a bookshock title
is color, you may wan to print tit separately from the rest of
the book. The cover of a PDF book is considered to be pages 1
(front) and 2 (blank back) by the Acrobat Reader Print Window.
To print the front cover of a PDF book, set the page range to,
Print Pages 1 to 1. This will print the first page of the book
which is the cover. In order to print the back cover of the book,
set the print range to print from (last page number) to (last
page number). The very last page of the PDF book is the back cover.
How do I avoid printing the cover?
In order to avoid printing the cover of a PDF book, the print range must be set to print from pages 3 to (last page - 2). Set the first number in the print range box to 3 and set the second print range box to the number that is in the box already - 2. The front cover of a book makes up pages 1 and 2 and the back cover of a PDF book makes up the last two pages.
How to contact Bookshock Publications.
If you have purchased a PDF title and have trouble with the download contact Bookshock Customer Service from our customer service page.
How do I unpackage my download.
All bookshock downloads whether it be a purchased title, a demo or a free software package, are distributed as a compressed file for the Win32 OS (zip) or Mac OS (Zip FAT). See the links page for links to tools which allow you to unpackage Windows and Mac zip files.
Purchase Agreement
By purchasing a Bookshock Title online, you agree to be allowed only one printed copy of a purchased title in existence. Only one binary copy of the unzipped book is allowed. And only one copy of the zipped book is allowed. Titles by Bookshock Publications may not be distributed in any format without express written permission from Bookshock Publications. Distributing any title by Bookshock Publications is an infringement on copyright.
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