April 1, 2009 -- 

April 1, 2009 -- With nearly all the Take Control ebooks, including this one, once you've purchased and downloaded the PDF, you can print it yourself or you can buy a print-on-demand copy (at $10 off, since you already bought the ebook). In the case of this ebook, the print-on-demand version is delayed slightly because we need to check the fonts and margins. You can click the Order Print Copy button on the cover (page 1 of the PDF) at any time to check on the print-on-demand availability.

The print-on-demand version has the advantage of acting much like a normal book, with double-sided printing, book-like dimensions, and double-sided printing. However, you certainly can print the book on your own printer. In so doing, we recommend that you test-print a few of the pages in the Command-Line Recipes section, since some of those recipes extend into the right margin (we did this so that you can copy and paste them into Terminal without accidentally introducing line breaks). If your printer cuts off these wide lines, you can make everything fit by printing with a small reduction—try setting the Scale to 90 percent, for instance, or if it appears in your Print dialog, try the "Scale each page to fit paper" radio button.

—Tonya Engst