Printing & Binding the CD Rom

[Meteoric Assault]

Okay to be honest... has anyone had the books printed and bound from the CD? I bought mine years ago from FFE and would really like to have the books handy for creativity and play.

 

[far-trader]

As nice as it is having it all handy on the CD the quality isn't what I'd want to invest in printing it out. Even if the printing was free. Unless I was concerned that I might suddenly lose all electronic access

So, no, I haven't. All I've done is the odd part of a page, usually a graphic, sometimes a table.

 

[aramis]

I've printed one booklet in total, and several sets of tables.

 

[Meteoric Assault]

anybody have it professionally done like fedex kinkos or such .... I am drifting nostalgically to days of the LBBs.

 

[madmike]

I printed a set of books 1-3 at work in A4 for the groups use.

It only cost me $5 to have them bound into one volume with wire binding

 

[Dragoner]

There is another thread here where someone had some printed and bound or was asking about it.

 

[Spinward Scout]

There is another thread here where someone had some printed and bound or was asking about it.

That was me. I had asked if it was ok to take the CT CD to Kinkos and get a brand new print of The Traveller Book. Andrew Boulton said he checked and it was ok with Marc Miller. I never got around to it, tho.

 

[Dragoner]

That was me. I had asked if it was ok to take the CT CD to Kinkos and get a brand new print of The Traveller Book. Andrew Boulton said he checked and it was ok with Marc Miller. I never got around to it, tho.

Cool. I have actually thought about it myself, print a make a phonebook sized Traveller tome. Just imagine bringing that to the game table: "well, let's just have a look in the big book..."

 

[madmike]

cool. I have actually thought about it myself, print a make a phonebook sized traveller tome. Just imagine bringing that to the game table: "well, let's just have a look in the big book..."

a BBB

 

[Dragoner]

a BBB

Totally. :rofl:

I really did laugh out loud.

 

[Meteoric Assault]

That was me. I had asked if it was ok to take the CT CD to Kinkos and get a brand new print of The Traveller Book. Andrew Boulton said he checked and it was ok with Marc Miller. I never got around to it, tho.

Excellent .... (intro Darth Vaders march) the return of the LBBs

 

[ShapeShifter]

I've printed a few of the supplements and a few adventures. My problem is that they never fill the whole page no matter what setting I select; they only take up the upper left of the page, so about of a third of the sheet (right and bottom) is blank. I bind them in three-prong folders. Simple.

 

[aramis]

I've printed a few of the supplements and a few adventures. My problem is that they never fill the whole page no matter what setting I select; they only take up the upper left of the page, so about of a third of the sheet (right and bottom) is blank. I bind them in three-prong folders. Simple.

Have you used Acrobat Reader's 2-up capability? you wind up (if done right) with...

+-------------------+
|+--------+--------+|
|| ====== | ====== ||
|| ====== | ====== ||
|| = p1 = | = p2 = ||
|| ====== | ====== ||
|| ====== | ====== ||
|+--------+--------+|
+-------------------+

I've been easily able to get such output on several different printers.

Also, use a recent (9 or X) version.

 

[madmike]

This is what I did. Works well.

Books 1-3 in one volume and books 4-8 in another.

Thank the Living Stars for Mark Miller's great PDF compilation discs.

 

[BlackBat242]

You might look through these two threads:

DIY Guide to Binding PDFs

DIY Guide to making a Hardback Rule Book

A gamer went through the whole process, took lots of pictures throughout, and posted them, along with lots of explanatory text.

The first makes a soft-cover book much like the LBBs, and the second makes a hardback from your printed PDF.