[TML] NEW SFRPG - Thousand Suns

[Knapp]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Ross Winn <ross.winn at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Stuart Frew wrote:
>  > > I must admit I do like being able to buy and download PDF rules/supplements,
>  > > specially being in NZ which means paper versions are rare and fecken
>  > > expensive
>  > Plus the company usually makes more profit from your purchase, it's a
>  > win-win.
>
>  I just wish I could figure out a way to conveniently read two-column
>  text on my lap-top.  If I make the page small enough to see all of
>  both columns at once, the text gets too small for my aging eyes to
>  read.  But if I leave it a decent size, then I'm constantly having to
>  scroll down, scroll back up, scroll over a tad and the scroll back
>  down again - on all pages.
>
>  It would seem to me that if a company is ONLY going to publish the
>  Whatever as a PDF, then could format the work as full-page text.
>  GURPS does this anyway (except for their use of sidebars, which you
>  can ignore unless they interest you particularly . . . which is why
>  they're sidebars).  I haven't actually downloaded that many PDFs yet,
>  but each one I have bought uses the same two-column format.
>
>  So - to read things easily - I end up having to print them out.  Even
>  setting the printer to black-and-white draft and using relatively
>  cheap "refill it yourself" ink systems, that usually costs me another
>  $5 or $10 per PDF.  So I don't saving anything or even end up spending
>  even more.
>
>  For instance, I've recently been considering purchase of the WoD
>  supplement "Midnight Roads."  Not that I run WoD, but glancing through
>  it in the store makes me think it could be easily adapted to create a
>  "Dark Serenity" game - just replace the hot cars with hot PC-scale
>  ships and the seedy highway towns with seedy frontier
>  starports/startowns.
>
>  It's available on DriveThruRPG at $17.95, whereas buying it through my
>  local BAM would cost about $23 (after adjusting for my discount and
>  local sales tax).  But if I have to print it out to read it easily,
>  that bumps the effective price of the PDF back up to about $22.95.  If
>  I bind it in any way - even just put it into a cheap Walmart 3-ring
>  binder - that adds at least another $2 to the price of the "bargain"
>  PDF.  So I might as well just buy the hardback from BAM and get a much
>  nicer product.
>
>  But I'd buy the PDF in an instant . . . IF I could read it as full-page text.
>  --
>  Richard Aiken
I don't know if you can do this windows but in linux you can just cut
and paste PDFs into a txt format.


-- 
Douglas E Knapp
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