nightprowler4321
First Post
I have a few questions for either publishers, players or DM.
My company recently sent in a review at a company that not makes you pay a 40 fee upfront, which some of the material, they send you is worth at least 20, and alot of it you can download off the net, but anyway, the first reply was told to change our cover. Yes it was black and white, then we changed it to a color which now we ended up losing the whole mysterious creepy factor and we tweaked the text.
Then sent it back in and was asked what changes we done as if someone never even looked past the first four pages. Now I know the material is OGL and SRD good, there is no nudity or violence or anything of that nature. In fact it is d20. Yes, we kept the inside cover the same, because well we like it, its the black and white we originally did on the cover. That shouldn't affect a review. One of the reasons I can think of is that we did the layout in one column instead of two. Why? When we did a test run on the product since it was meant only to be a pdf primarily for the online gamer we got a hell of alot of complaints about the two columns having to scroll up and down and down. Gamers would tell us, that for them it was a complete waste of time to scroll up to the top of the page then to the bottom. Even a certain said books that I will call the "Bible of pdf Creation" devoted a good section of this of how the two column garnered alot of complaints.
My question is even though the traditional is the two column, if you were going to use a pdf book for mostly online gaming and even if you weren't an online gamer and just wanted to buy the pdf to read, then download as the usual procedure, would you prefer the one column or the two or does it really matter to you?
IMOHO which don't count as much, I really cringe when I open a pdf and its in columns, infact I would almost rather waste my precious ink paper and print it out then have to read in columns. Yes I know we read books in columns, but you can move a book closer or farther away without a struggle and you can't do that with your moniter easily. I don't care what you say reading a book with columns is different then reading the monitor in columns, you read differently, your eyes adjust differently and so on.
My company recently sent in a review at a company that not makes you pay a 40 fee upfront, which some of the material, they send you is worth at least 20, and alot of it you can download off the net, but anyway, the first reply was told to change our cover. Yes it was black and white, then we changed it to a color which now we ended up losing the whole mysterious creepy factor and we tweaked the text.
Then sent it back in and was asked what changes we done as if someone never even looked past the first four pages. Now I know the material is OGL and SRD good, there is no nudity or violence or anything of that nature. In fact it is d20. Yes, we kept the inside cover the same, because well we like it, its the black and white we originally did on the cover. That shouldn't affect a review. One of the reasons I can think of is that we did the layout in one column instead of two. Why? When we did a test run on the product since it was meant only to be a pdf primarily for the online gamer we got a hell of alot of complaints about the two columns having to scroll up and down and down. Gamers would tell us, that for them it was a complete waste of time to scroll up to the top of the page then to the bottom. Even a certain said books that I will call the "Bible of pdf Creation" devoted a good section of this of how the two column garnered alot of complaints.
My question is even though the traditional is the two column, if you were going to use a pdf book for mostly online gaming and even if you weren't an online gamer and just wanted to buy the pdf to read, then download as the usual procedure, would you prefer the one column or the two or does it really matter to you?
IMOHO which don't count as much, I really cringe when I open a pdf and its in columns, infact I would almost rather waste my precious ink paper and print it out then have to read in columns. Yes I know we read books in columns, but you can move a book closer or farther away without a struggle and you can't do that with your moniter easily. I don't care what you say reading a book with columns is different then reading the monitor in columns, you read differently, your eyes adjust differently and so on.
