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_Michael_ replied to the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing.Thank you all for your replies--been away working on a sample home design for my campaign world I'll post here in the forums right after... -
_Michael_ reacted to Ath'kethin's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with
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OP didn't mention PoD being a factor, true. But if they ever want to do PoD through DrivethruRPG, they can either use Scribus to create... -
_Michael_ reacted to Gus L's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with
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I tend to agree but the use of white space is a hot topic in the RPG design space.. I'd says avoid the miniscule gutters and margins of... -
_Michael_ reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with
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Don't overdo the gutters. A while back, I purchased a PDF to find that two thirds of each page was unused white space (the left and... -
_Michael_ reacted to MoonSong's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
OP didn't mention PoD being a factor, and they mentioned money being a problem. That's why I mentioned Scribus instead of Affinity. Why...
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_Michael_ reacted to Ath'kethin's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
I wouldn't use Scribus. I believe that DMSGuild, and probably Ingram/Lightning Source in general, no longer accepts PDFs made using...
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_Michael_ reacted to Gus L's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
A) If you want to make something with a layout - Affinity is around $50 or far less on sale. B) I would find 100% free fonts rather...
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_Michael_ reacted to Simon Miles's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
We are a (very) small non-professional publisher based in the UK. The initial draft of all our products has been done in Word using two...
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_Michael_ reacted to MoonSong's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
Divide the page on a 9x9 grid. Make a 6x6 box on the lower-outer corner. Move the box two little rectangles up and two little rectangles...
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_Michael_ replied to the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing.Can you give me an example of this? Definitely going to try Scribus. Can't believe someone else remembers PageMaker! Such a great...
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_Michael_ reacted to MoonSong's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
Have you tried Scribus? It is an open source alternative to pagemaker/in Design and it runsin Mac. As for fonts, I'm fond of Century...
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_Michael_ replied to the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing.Absolutely. I think 11 might do to compress it a bit, and I feel the same about the tan parchment color. I wanted to do some kind of...
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_Michael_ reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing with Like.
I use 11 font Calibri in anything I put on DMsGuild. I'm finding 10pt is getting a little small for my eyes and think for many others...
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_Michael_ posted the thread D&D 3.x Formatting/Page Appearance Suggestions and Tips For Publishing in D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants.So, I'm thinking of publishing on DTRPG, but I want to make my stuff splashy. I have access to CorelDraw, so I can do some stuff, but it...
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_Michael_ replied to the thread D&D 3.x Massive Skill List (With Descriptions and Art).You're very welcome! ☺️ I hope to put more up, too. This is the foundational stuff so I can now begin building some NPCs. I was toying...