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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1177092" data-attributes="member: 571">About the Hospital PDF. Not really a publisher, yet, but here's my take anyway.Font: Works good on screen, but for a print product you really need to use a serif typeface. In addition, make it 2 points smaller. You'll be able to fit more on a page and it will look better for the column size used.Border: It's distracting, dump it. That'll give you more space to work with. with the extra space and a smaller type you should be able to use two columns and make reading easier.Sidebars: A lighter shade of grey would work better, both from the viewpoint of printing the PDF, and for reading. Also, you do have too much 'white space' at the end of your sidebars. End the column after the last line.Paragraphs: Either use indenting or a space between paragraphs. Not both. In addition, never 'tab' to indent the first line of a paragraph. Any decent wordprocessor will let you set the first line indent on a paragraph.Paragraphs 2 and 3 on the first page: Merge them. Arabeal's reply to the high priest would then read, '...he replied, "Would you deny..."'. The way you have it now is jarring.Typos: The hospitals may be found practically everywhere, but they would be a common sight throughout the land.Aside from that I rather like what I saw. It's different. It's actually fairly well written. It would make a good addition to most any campaign. It takes a common D&D trope into account and considers it's impact on society. We need more of that in this business.BTW, I print out long PDFs when I can. I'm not comfortable reading them on screen. When printed out most PDFs I've gotten tend to suffer compared to their appearance on-screen. Smudging, busyness, the sort of thing. So for folks like me keep the layout clean. Keep the shading to a minimum, use line art for decoration and so on. I'm obviously not the typical PDF buyer (going by the ones people drool over), but I prefer something that's comfortable to read rather than something that looks neato keen on a monitor.YMMV</blockquote>

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