Previous Topics In Publishing 5/12/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Survey] The 2009 Collective Endeavour Survey As part of the ongoing review of the services provided through The Collective Endeavour (http://www.collective-endeavour.com/), we would like to gather some information from the people who use our website and… In Publishing Participants: Gregor Hutton.
5/11/2009 Graham Walmsley: Could someone help me out with PDF printing problems? I'm having real problems printing a PDF through Lulu. I submit a PDF, they send me an anonymous error message. I submit a new PDF, they send me the same… In Publishing Participants: Graham Walmsley, Paul Czege, btrc, visioNationstudios, Carnifex, David Artman.
5/10/2009 ShallowThoughts: PDF Writer availability?? Hello folks,
excuse me if this is in ignorant question. I hear about a lot of indie companies publishing via PDF. As far as I'm aware, that can only be… In Publishing Participants: ShallowThoughts, jerry, Pelgrane, visioNationstudios.
5/8/2009 Seamus: Draw Straight Line in INdesign How do I make straight lines in INdesign. They always come out crooked. In Publishing Participants: Seamus, jasonm, Matt Snyder, Carnifex.
5/4/2009 David C: Book Layout So I'm putting my game into pdf format. I'd like to get it right the first time, so that I have the option of using the same file for printing… In Publishing Participants: David C, Lance D. Allen, Eero Tuovinen, Seamus.
5/1/2009 Togman1: T.O.G. Entertainment Inc. adds “PRINT ON DEMAND” Capabilities T.O.G. Entertainment Inc., publisher of Shattered Sword Fantasy Battle Card Game, has added “PRINT ON DEMAND” capabilities in the form of Superior POD.
“It was the right move for us.… In Publishing Participants: Togman1, JayKriz.
5/1/2009 JimLotFP: Approaching Vendors 'allo all...
A lot has changed since I last came here looking for advice. I scrapped plans for my own game after playtesting fizzled, but have since started doing things… In Publishing Participants: JimLotFP, Eero Tuovinen, Noclue.
4/25/2009 Seamus: Font and Font size for 8x11 book I know nothing about typography and layout, but I have 6 months to figure it out for our first release (if I can't do it in that time, I guess… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Vulpinoid, Luke, Wolfen, Gregor Hutton, mjbauer, David C, Carnifex, Graham Walmsley, btrc, Eero Tuovinen.
4/22/2009 Seamus: Impressions Advertising and Marketing Anyone work through them before. Good or bad experience? In Publishing Participants: Seamus, preludetotheend, guildofblades.
4/18/2009 Seamus: RPG Style Guides One problem I keep having as a writer for RPG products is figuring out when to speak in the 2nd person and 3rd and who to address. Sometimes it feels… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Willow, Luke, Ashirgo, ShallowThoughts.
4/14/2009 iago: Cross-referencing in InDesign (split) Update: InDesign CS4 now supports cross-referencing natively, no extra plugins needed. I'm pretty happy with it. In Publishing Participants: iago, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Carnifex.
4/14/2009 Carnifex: Cross-referencing in InDesign (split) You can make cross-references in InDesign.
Place your marker where you want the reference "target" (or mark the word).
Open the Hyperlinks panel.
Choose "new hyperlink destination" in the panel… In Publishing Participants: Carnifex, Ron Edwards, iago, Darcy Burgess.
4/9/2009 guildofblades: POD Board Games Ok, so this summer we want to get serious about cracking the next challenge in POD production. Board games.
Yes, I know, GOB Publishing has been doing it for years.… In Publishing Participants: guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen, Paraplegic Racehorse, Wolfen, Josh Gertz, preludetotheend.
4/8/2009 Sonja: Freeware/open source thing like InDesign? (split) http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24224.0 In Publishing Participants: Sonja, Ron Edwards.
4/8/2009 visioNationstudios: WotC Pulls PDFs Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere on the Forge and I missed it. Just wondering two things:
1) Have any details come to light regarding the decision by… In Publishing Participants: visioNationstudios, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, Josh Gertz, preludetotheend, David C.
4/6/2009 Seamus: LULU.COM A few publishers have recommended Lulu.Com. Does anyone here have experience with lulu? In Publishing Participants: Seamus, rafael, iago, greyorm, Calithena, xenopulse, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, jerry, April L. Hamilton, redalastor, guildofblades.
4/5/2009 preludetotheend: Free give away contests to get some visibility? I am currently playing around with www.twitter.com/BitsyBook creating one of those tweet books people have been buzzing about. As I am polishing up my little game chef entry (my first… In Publishing Participants: preludetotheend, iago.
4/2/2009 Seamus: NEW PUBLISHER BUSINESS PLAN I am creating a business plan for a small publishing business. We have one project in the works we want to focus on, and hope it will be successful enough… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, Paul Czege, greyorm, guildofblades, xenopulse, Noclue.
4/1/2009 Seamus: New Publisher With Questions about GSL and OGL Just getting started in the publishing world, and trying to decide if I should go 4E or OGL. We will have an original system or two in our lineup as… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Luke.
4/1/2009 Luke: Full Color, 20¢ a page Holy cow, has anyone seen or even used MagCloud yet?
http://magcloud.com/
It's an endeavor by HP to create a Lulu-like service for short run, low page-count magazines. It seems utterly… In Publishing Participants: Luke, jasonm, mjbauer, Double King, Marhault.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Publishing 5/22/2009 raidzuo: I made a card game. I made a CCRPG (collectible card role playing game) for my players as a replacement for DnD and I want to print it en mass and possibly publish it. Should… In Publishing Participants: raidzuo, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Tyler.Tinsley, preludetotheend.
5/26/2009 Seamus: Master pages and Text Frames in INdesign I am trying to create Text Frames in my master page that will repeat thoughout the document so that I can add text. But the program won't let me. If… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Ben Lehman, Luke, Wordman, Eero Tuovinen.
5/28/2009 Vulpinoid: Word-of-Mouth Incentive Plan I've just picked up some work with one of the companies that produces customer loyalty cards. The kind where you earn points for your purchases and once you earn enough… In Publishing Participants: Vulpinoid, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen.
5/31/2009 Seamus: Photoshop: Do I really need it and why? So I am getting ready to layout my first book in INdesign. Done several dry runs without art. Our illustrations and cover art will be ready soon. People tell me… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, reason, Ben Lehman, Vordark, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, Double King, Carnifex, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.
6/1/2009 raidzuo: DIY small scale card game for less than 1 cent a card 50 blank cards for $1.75 for a deck of 50.
http://www.eaieducation.com/530658.html
100 sheets of inkjet sticker paper for $19.00
http://www.ldproducts.com/Compatible,Photo-Paper,HYPSTICK100,Yellow,,1238,product.html
If you print 9 cards; 3.5 X 2.5 on one… In Publishing Participants: raidzuo.
6/1/2009 Clay: Indie games & the FLGS Just wanted to drop a note in here to mention that Indie games are getting a lot of traction in the local game stores. I went into two different stores… In Publishing Participants: Clay, Eero Tuovinen.
6/2/2009 one_monkey: Printing the No Dice RPG Hi,
Didn't really know where else to drop this but I figured it could be useful to people considering Lulu as a publish on demand service.
We've just this week… In Publishing Participants: one_monkey, Ron Edwards.
6/2/2009 MatrixGamer: New business model - The Artist/Craftsman Game Business I've been kicking around ideas on how to proceed with my game business. I want to make money and have tried out many product formats and have sold lots of… In Publishing Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, preludetotheend, slingshot.
6/3/2009 David Artman: What Does "POD" and "Short Run" Mean in 2009? In another thread:... POD board and box making at print runs starting at 100 units.I couldn't help but double-take. I have always used "POD" as "Print On… In Publishing Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, iago, MatrixGamer.
6/6/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: kick starter, maybe a way to fund indie RPGs? http://www.kickstarter.com/
The basic idea is that people who need funding for their project can post it to kick starter and then other people will provide funding in exchange for something… In Publishing Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, Wordman, Clay.
6/8/2009 Seamus: Affordable art resources I am trying to find affordable art resources for publishing. Basically we can pay for a minimal amount of art, but can't afford enough to fill most of our books.… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, preludetotheend, slingshot, Selene Tan.
6/12/2009 Seamus: Page count and word count I am trying to calculate the page count of our first book. Its about 36,000 words right now, will probably end somewhere between 40,000-50,000. I know for novels the average… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, David C.
6/13/2009 JimLotFP: Designing a PDF I just finished layouts and putting together a couple copies of my latest project (fantasy adventure) to send to overseas distributors (Eero, I haven't forgotten your message and you'll certainly… In Publishing Participants: JimLotFP, Vordark, Clay, Wordman, David Artman, btrc.
6/14/2009 hoefer: Help with PDFs from InDesign CS4 Hey gang,
I've recently switched to the CS4 package from CS2 and I'm noticing that when I have an image in the background, behind another image I can sort of… In Publishing Participants: hoefer, Carnifex.
6/15/2009 Morbius_of_Oz: Large Map Printer Wanter Can anyone here recommend a printer who can print larger maps?
Thanks very much,
Craig J. Brain In Publishing Participants: Morbius_of_Oz, Wordman, David Artman.
6/15/2009 Seamus: Problems in INdesign I started my first real attempt at a layout on INdesign, and encountered some problems the manual does not appear to cover:
1) Single Line being segregated from rest of… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, Carnifex, Airafice, Nathan P..
6/15/2009 Double King: seriously cheap Letterpress business cards saw this on a few design forums this morning and thought i would pass it along here. typically the buy-in on letterpress work is about $300 or so. (this isn't… In Publishing Participants: Double King.
6/16/2009 SaintandSinner: Copyright on personal use Hi everyone,
I looked through the copyright sticky but didn't see an answer to my question. We have a home made PDF that we'd like to print and have bound… In Publishing Participants: SaintandSinner, Ben Lehman, Tim C Koppang, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Vordark, ModusVivendi, hoefer.
6/16/2009 noahtrammell: Legal Questions Hey. I was just reading the Copyright Resources topic, and in particular the section on open licenses. I was wondering if someone could give me a quick rundown of… In Publishing Participants: noahtrammell, Eero Tuovinen.
6/16/2009 noahtrammell: Publishing and Distribution Settings I also had a couple of questions about publishing. If I release my game as a pdf, what services can I use to distribute it, and how do I… In Publishing Participants: noahtrammell, Clay.
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