This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

[Mike James]

"strtr" <strtr at sp.am> wrote in message news:i1i0up$15p5$1 at digitalmars.com...
> == Quote from Mike James (foo at bar.com)'s article
>> "strtr" <strtr at sp.am> wrote in message 
>> news:i1ck0c$gh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> > == Quote from Mike James (foo at bar.com)'s article
>> >> "Patrick Byrne" <pbyrne at frontier.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >> news:hvq1dr$30ek$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> >> > On 22/06/2010 10:03, Mike James wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> When you get the book it has an access code to download the PDF 
>> >> >> book
>> >> >> from Safari. But you need the book first :-)
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you actually download the pdf? All I can see is the interactive
>> >> > browser - It is quite nice to use but I would much rather have a pdf
>> >> > file
>> >> > to take home with me, at the end of the day.
>> >> >
>> >> Yes you can download the PDF. If you look at the last page of TDPL 
>> >> there
>> >> is
>> >> instructions. Basically you request a PDF and the PDF is generated 
>> >> with
>> >> your
>> >> name and email address as a footer on each page. Safari then emails 
>> >> you
>> >> the
>> >> webpage you can download it from. You just need to signup for the 
>> >> trial
>> >> period.
>> >> -=mike=-
>> >
>> > Could you maybe help me out a bit. Next to the online version, all I 
>> > get
>> > is the
>> > notification I need download tokens :(
>> > I signed up using the coupon code.
>> Have you bought TDPL? You need the access code from the back of the book.
>> -=mike=-
> Yes, as I said, I singed up using the coupon code. Or is there yet some 
> other code
> I missed?
> It automatically added TDPL to the 0-slot bookshelf.
> In the table of contents there are per chapter downloads which each cost 
> one
> download token.
> On the online reading page I can print individual pages (with watermark) 
> but
> downloads again cost tokens.
> Which button am I missing?

The downladable version appears in the "Tokens & Downloads" tab of My Safari 
when I log on. Have you got that Tab?

-=mike=-