How To Use Blogs2Books

1. Download and install the software.
2. Run Blogs2Books by clicking on the new icon on your desktop.
3. Follow the instructions in the program. A "?" appears in several places throughout the program. Clicking on the "?" will provide additional details about that item.
4. The last step of the program allows you to make global changes to your downloaded blog file. This does not effect your online blog in anyway. Changes you make on this page are applied to the entire blog file. You can't make specific changes (such as fixing typos) from this page.
5. Save your blog file. Your blog file will be saved as an html file. Please note, your pictures are not embedded in the html file. In order for your html file to display your pictures it must be kept in the same folder as your pictures.
   
6. After Blogs2Books finishes, you may want to make additional detailed changes to your blog file. The file is html so you should use an html editor for this. I recommend using Nvu because it is easy to use and free!
   You can get it at http://nvudev.com/index.php.
   
7. To print your blog file, probably the best thing to do is to make it a pdf file. This will embed your pictures into the file and make it easy to take somewhere to print. I recommend PrimoPdf because it is free. You can get it at http://www.primopdf.com/. To use this program, you just open your html file in Internet Explorer (or FireFox). Then print it. When it asks you which printer you want to use, pick PrimoPdf and just use all the
   defaults. It will spit out a nice little pdf file for you. This program is also nice because it will make it so that your pictures aren't cut in half on different pages.
8. Take your pdf file to your favorite copy shop. Print! Bind! You're done!