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As to where I stand, I received a notice today that it shipped, so presumably those of us who spent the money will get our books.  Hopefully the printing problems were a fluke too.

Hi all,

I just got my copy today (ordered Sept. 7), and it's got the same printing problem. I contacted Lulu and they refunded my money (since the book's no longer available for sale). I'll definately reorder it once it's back on the site.

Apart from the printing error (which unfortunately makes the book almost unusable, since it's on nearly every page), it's a really well constructed book.

I look forward to seeing and buying it from lulu.

I received my copy on Thursday, and finally had a chance to look at it today.  I too have the printing error.  I strongly suspect that's it's a matter of character set translation issues, since most of the letters are correct, but for any single font there are characters which are consistently wrong.

I have a sneaking suspicion that with you home being of the past it might take you some time to get a corrected version up and available.  Any kind of an eta on that, and is there anything that we can do to facilitate that.  I can heartily appreciate your need for income right now, so I'm not inclined to return it to LuLu until a replacement is available.

I received my copy yesterday, with the printing errors.  I also bought the PDF, comparing the two, the PDF has none of the errors.  It rather looks like lulu screwed this one up.  If I get a refund from lulu, I hope it doesn't take money from Clinton, since it hardly appears to be his fault.

Those of you who have the book -- could it be a font-embedding issue? I don't know what fonts Clinton used, but I do know that Lulu sometimes gets fuckety about fonts and full embedded sets, so that could be part of the problem.

It's an esoteric problem with fonts being embedded multiple times, and yeah, it's the suck. I have a revised copy coming to me right now which hopefully will resolve the problem.

By the way, I kind of work at Lulu now, so feel free to run questions at me if stuff like this happens with other books you buy there.

So, Clinton, what can an early purchaser who got a hosed copy do that won't hit you in the pocket book?

JJSpackle,

Just contact Lulu and tell them you had a screwed-up copy. I've just put a corrected copy online, so they should send you another one.

Everyone else: the corrected version is up. I have a proof in hand and it looks good.

Best,
Clinton

What version and what binding process is used on the copy for sale at Indie Press Revolution?  And why is it 4 dollars cheaper?

Quote from: Twobirds on October 04, 2005, 02:34:12 PM
What version and what binding process is used on the copy for sale at Indie Press Revolution?  And why is it 4 dollars cheaper?

You know, I've asked them to take that down, and they haven't.

It's the older version of the game.

Got mine this morning (shipped 2nd September) and it has the printing error. I wonder why the shipping to Europe takes this long.

Anyway, I am happy to see it, and I have contacted Lulu to ask for the corrected copy :)

Per

I got my copy on Friday. On the back cover, it looks like all the hyphens printed as quotation marks. A quick flip through the text looks good, though.

I got my copy today.  Looks great.  First time I've used Lulu, and I'm impressed.

The back of the book has thin little squares where it should have dashes, apostrophes, and quotation marks.  The insides look perfect.

I also got Donjon, and am planning to run some one-shots over Christmas break.  (I love the "if they give you lip, point them at this" line!)

Thanks,

Ragnar

Apologies about that back, guys. It's fixed now. I hope it doesn't cause you too much trouble.