Story Hours - PDF Style

[dave_o]

This'll probably get shunted off to the Story Hour forums, but I wasn't sure where to place it, as I didn't wanna interrupt the magical flow of the Story Hours.

But, it would be incredibly sweet for those big famous Story Hour authors (Piratecat, seasong, etc.) to compile their story hours into .PDF format.

Thus, I could print those bad boys out and give them a look on my own time. Maybe even compile them into a book!

Anyone know a quick 'n dirty way to do that?

 

[AGGEMAM]

Anyone know a quick 'n dirty way to do that?

Print it out to a .prn or .ps file, and use distiller to make the .pdf !

 

[Piratecat]

Whoo hoo, a Meta thread!

This is really up to each individual author. I certainly can make pdfs... and I know that at least the first part of mine (and a bunch of other people's) is available for download in .doc format.

As soon as I finish the next three writeups, we're compiling this whole part into a downloadable whole. I'm thinking it will be available within the month.

 

[seasong]

But, it would be incredibly sweet for those big famous Story Hour authors (Piratecat, seasong, etc.) to compile their story hours into .PDF format.

Woo hoo! Two months of this and I'm already big and famous!

Another two months, and I'll have more pageviews than PirateCat!

Er, maybe not .

For myself, I've compiled the first month in a PDF; the link is on the front page of my story hour. It's not gorgeous (just the narrative stripped of peanut gallery commentary and most of my geeky world notes), but it's there. I'm planning to update it again either this weekend or the next, to catch the PDF up to real time.

Eventually, I'll get around to formatting it more prettily, putting the appropos world notes in sidebars or footnotes, and maybe inserting a few text boxes here and there of commentary, if I can get it to look good.

There is no quick and cheap way to make PDFs. Pick one or the other - cheap means 3rd party products that require some futzing and setup, quick means Adobe's very expensive software.

 

[Piratecat]

Seasong, email me. Maybe I can help convert it, I dunno.

 

[seasong]

PirateCat - Sorry, I obviously wasn't clear . But thank you very much for the offer!

I have 3rd party software for it, and I've slowly been converting my story hour to a PDF format already (see the "For myself, I've compiled the first month in a PDF" part). I was just trying to answer the original question about quick & dirty methods.

In fact, I just updated the PDF up to page 5 of the story hour .

 

[tleilaxu]

You know what would be super-cool? Remember many moons ago when someone posted pics they had made of the folks from Sagiro and PCs story hours? (forgive me, but i forget who did it). If you put your story hours into .pdf form those pics could be included in the text!

Even better, we could request the aspiring artists on the board to submit art for all our favorite story hours. That way, when you are reading the battle with the deep dragon in PCs story hour, you can see a picture someone drew of a tree bursting out of its body!

That would be so sweet and would bring the story hours to a new level of coolness. More than super-cool. It could only be described as ultra-cool.