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Originally Posted by dgatwood
I have a suggestion. Run every other paragraph through a Borkifier engine as a preview copy. That will let them see the approximate formatting and verify that you did the work of formatting their book, but the result will be completely unshippable to customers and won't be machine-translateable back to the original (assuming you make your Borkifier slightly lossy). Release an un-Borkified copy upon payment.
For example, here's a quick hack:
http://homeserver.gatwood.net/borkify.pl.txt |
Y'know, not to rain on your parade, but it's easier to take the source (assuming that there IS some, outside of a PDF, of course), and just "export to" or "save as" HTML and open the damned thing in a responsive browser, like "Web Developer" for Chrome, say, and show them what an abortion the damned thing looks like. That's the only thing I've found that works.
ALTHOUGH, if I had some extra time, Borking it would be fun. :-)
Offered FWIW, which isn't even $.02.
Hitch