The Basic System, thoughts and why

[jeffjones]

It's still saying that the file is damaged.  I just can't open it for love or money.

[Dilly Green Bean Games]

http://dillygreenbeangames.com/TheBasicSystem.pdf

Try it again........... I don't know what is wrong with it. The other files are working just fine. If you need to, download one of the genre PDFs. Those I haven't had any problems with.

Feel free to e-mail us if it doesn't work and we'll try to send you a copy.

dillygreenbeangames@dillygreenbeangames.com

[steelcaress]

What's actually going on is that you don't have the right version of Acrobat.  That's what happens when you are using, say, Acrobat 5.0 instead of Adobe Reader 6.0.

If you upgrade to the latest version, it should fix the problem.

Another reason could be a corrupted download.  A bad download manager could be the issue, or the lack of one.  I'm on DSL, and I still use a download manager.  Fresh Download from Fresh Devices is one of the best.  

Also some firewalls cause issues.  ZoneAlarm is the most noteworthy corrupter of downloads.  

Hope this helps.  

SteelCaress

[Dilly Green Bean Games]

Oh great. My Distiller is 5.0. I can't afford to buy an upgrade. Or does that matter?

[Jasper]

It may not.  Contrary to what Adobe would probably have everyone believing, they do not own the PDF format, and anyone can create a PDF "distiller."

A quick Google search yielded the following site, which seems to list a few free ones: http://www.bykeyword.com/freeware/pdf.html

I don't know if any of them are any good of course, but there certainly are such things out there.

[Jack Aidley]

OpenOffice can save to .pdf, and seems to do a pretty good job.

[Dilly Green Bean Games]

I guess my question would be: What will be the difference if I use another PDF burner? Won't the problem still be the same?

Something I have noticed is that the files I have up when downloaded from another computer work fine. But somewhere there is a glitch. To be honest and this sounds wacked. Everytime I advertize the core Rules PDFs I have all of a sudden had downlod problems. Where they once worked fine before, all of a sudden they are getting messed up. Could I have a hacker issue? I mean people are not having any problems, then bam.........they are. Maybe I ought to put the files in a .zip file. Try to offer them some protection. Thoughts?

[Andrew Martin]

I guess my question would be: What will be the difference if I use another PDF burner? Won't the problem still be the same?

Something I have noticed is that the files I have up when downloaded from another computer work fine. But somewhere there is a glitch. To be honest and this sounds wacked. Everytime I advertize the core Rules PDFs I have all of a sudden had downlod problems. Where they once worked fine before, all of a sudden they are getting messed up. Could I have a hacker issue? I mean people are not having any problems, then bam.........they are. Maybe I ought to put the files in a .zip file. Try to offer them some protection. Thoughts?

I tried downloading the PDF and I had no problems. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.x, though. Perhaps it might be best to email a copy to Jeff Jones? It may that he's got a downloader program that's got a bad copy in it's cache?

[Dilly Green Bean Games]

Andrew,
Very good suggestion. And done! I think. I hope I e-mailed it to him. If anyone has problems I will gladly e-mail them a copy. I just finished TBS Cosmic.......a Cosmic Supers expansion to our TBS Powers PDF. I had so much fun working it that I wanted to go eat a planet.

We are also looking at possibly adding a .zip file with ALL the TBS downloads. This might help deal with bad downloads. Input is always welcome. I have tried to accomidate everyone's input. The expansions PDFs are getting pretty interesting.

The system looks like after another year of tweeking we could be releasing a mega sized book of The Basic System for print with ALL the PDFs and expansions. It's a thought.

[jeffjones]

Thanks for helping guys.  Hopefully, I'll get a chance to look at it after my email decides it wants to work again.

[Dilly Green Bean Games]

Jeff. If you want. Join the TBS discussion list. It has the fil posted on the group. And it e-mails it to you as well......but as I just read that might not do you any good.