Spent an hour or so looking over the proofs in the light
of day, and they’re really not as bad as my first pass made me think. Yes, my
wife dislikes the font I’m using for the cover title, and it’s not as beefy as
I’d like, but it’s not terrible. My son thinks I should have used different
colors…but he’s two years old, and after careful questioning, what he REALLY
wanted was multiple books in a variety of colors (and also, his favorite color
is PINK and I failed to make any of the three volumes pink which was a major
disappointment for him). And the cover color will probably changed at the
printer anyway.
A couple of the images DID turn out looking a little
cloudy…but I know that a least a couple of those are my own fault (due to
messing with the stupid “picture effects”) and are thus fixable while others
seem to be an issue with Kinko’s printer ink (some of the shading on tables and
charts has a “fade-in-fade-out” thing going on), which should be correctable
with my normal printer. I might also be able to get cleaner illos to replace
some of the lower resolution images.
So in actuality, there’s really own one main issue/gripe
with the books and that’s the margins (top and bottom) which seem to have
somehow expanded through the magic of Kinko’s booklet digitalization process.
The actual PDFs (which is what I’ll probably be making available for download,
as that’s what people want on their tablets) still look great…quite readable
and nicely laid out. It’s only the book version that seems to suck, perhaps due
to the need of the printer to have an edge to grip. Or something. See, this is
why I hate (or fear) technology…I just don’t know enough about this shit to
even say what’s going on.
The margins I’ve got on the book seem to be plenty small
and don’t need to be adjusted…it’s more the “booklet creation” process that
needs to be adjusted (and my printer can work with me on that. Hell, I suppose
I can just cut off the top and bottom edges (which seems to be what TSR did
with their booklets “back in the day;” they’re a bit shorter than the normal A5
height of 8.5”.
SO: having noted a few typos that need to be corrected
(for example, I see at least one place where I used the old term “necromancer”
instead of “sorcerer”), at this point I think I’m about set.
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Need to put in my order for the custom dice.
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Need to paste my ISBNs and update my Bowker’s
account with the new books
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Need to make sure all images are tight
All right, all right…I am feeling much more optimistic
about this project than I was last night. Some of my enthusiastic giddiness is
starting to come back. And that’s a good thing.
: )
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