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Post by thegreyelf on May 22, 2007 7:30:31 GMT -5
Hi, everyone, We're far from the final draft, of course...Mark still has to rewrite the Talents section (and provide 2 or 3 sections of the rules), but I wanted to update you all on the progress of the PDF work. Formatting is coming along, but isn't going as smoothly as I'd like (the tables and text boxes aren't behaving themselves and staying where I put them). I have a suspicion as to what the problem is, though I may have to start over from scratch and do it from the bottom-up, which isn't that big a deal. One slow day at work will cover it. In any case, I think I need to redefine a few styles in my style sheet. My ultimate goal is to keep this document to a maximum of 70 pages after the art is in. Part of that, though, is because I have a book binding kit that'll only hold 35 sheets of paper . So if it goes over 70, so be it. I'm not going to sacrifice readability and style for length, naturally. Once I get a readable draft (even if it's still incomplete) I'll post it to my website and link it here for everyone's preliminary comments.
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Post by CleanCutRogue on May 22, 2007 19:26:20 GMT -5
I for one am excited to see how it looks and feels. What software are you using to do the layout? I've become quite accomplished at using Micro$oft Word and may be able to lend a hand if you're having behavioral difficulties with tables and such (all the books I do for Star Frontiers are done in Word, as are all the line art drawings of guns and equipment!)
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Post by thegreyelf on May 23, 2007 10:33:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the offer, Bill! I think I've got it worked out, though *fingers crossed*
With any luck at all I'll post a preliminary layout today. Note it won't have any artwork, and I'm leaving the Talents and Weaknesses only partially formatted, as I'll have to redo the whole section once Mark rewrites them anyway.
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Post by thegreyelf on May 23, 2007 11:07:20 GMT -5
I take it back. Grrr. I'm going to have to start from scratch. Something's all akimbo here and I can't seem to suss out what it is.
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Post by CleanCutRogue on May 28, 2007 2:16:35 GMT -5
I may be able to help - feel free to email me
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Post by thegreyelf on May 29, 2007 13:05:30 GMT -5
It's not that I'm blowing off your help, Bill...it's that without being here to see the issue, I couldn't begin to describe it to you. I expect I just muffed something up with the initial format designs, and starting over will help. I am using Word right now, for lack of a better layout program at hand, and I'm pretty good with it, overall (see www.grey-elf.com/buffy/mainpage.html for some examples); but the d**ned software is "so smart it's stupid," as I like to say. That being said, I was formatting something else the other day, and I think I know what I need to do, now. We'll see if it works.
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