How do you use PDFs?

[Voadam]

Mostly on the computer with a few minor printouts now for games. I used to print everything, now I almost never printout general books, just things I am using in a particular game.

 

[Odhanan]

I just print the parts I want to use in some cases, and print the whole thing for the rules supplements I really care about or the modules I use.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I print out the PDFs that I will be using often, and print out relevent sections of others that will be used occasionally. I rarely use them from the screen, becasue I don't have a computer anywhere near where we game. I don't have a laptop, so while that might be a convienient option in the future, right now unprinted PDFs don't see a whole lot of use by me. So I end up printing and binding many of them.

 

[Desdichado]

There's no option for printing sections of them, but not the whole thing? Reading on the screen is very difficult for me, especially for longer pdfs. Unfortunately, those usually just don't get much use.

 

[Mystery Man]

Option 3 and a half.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I print ones that will likely be used frequently by my players. I run ones used primarily as DM from the laptop.

 

[haiiro]

Option 3. I've printed out a few of mine, and I'd certainly do that if I was sharing material with my players (I don't have a laptop), but primarily I leave them on the computer. I also tend to put PDFs on my flash key, so I can have access to them anywhere -- and really, that's the main appeal of PDFs for me: lots of data right at hand while I'm prepping for my game, or doing freelance work.

 

[Crothian]

I don't print out any these days. I use them and take notes on them from the computer. I wish I had a laptop to use with them though.

 

[Galethorn]

I voted 'print none' but I will print out important pages when I actually use something (not including things like the worksheets in A Magical Medieval Society, which I regularly print when I use them). I can't actually remember trying to ever print out all of a PDF any time in the last several years.

 

[twofalls]

Oh, and the full text searching is the bomb too. Say I wanted to design a whole set of adventures around drow. Well, I can go to my monster view and do a search on drow and any monster with drow somewhere in the description is all that's left. Leaves me with stuff like deep gnomes, drow, driders, chitine, deep dragons, black unicorns, all kinds of nice stuff that fit the drow theme.

This sounds like a dream.

<- Jealous DM.