Book characters

jakk9000 · Post by **jakk9000** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:30 am

Hi can someone please make a pdf of the characters from OVA and send them to my e-mail? I can't do it my self due to I don't have a pdf of the book and I have no idea how to cut out the pages from a pdf to make a new one.

It is Jakk9000@yahoo.com and if that doesn't work Jakk9000@gmail.com

Plastic_Avatar · Post by **Plastic_Avatar** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:02 pm

If you have a PDF of OVA, making *another* PDF with just the characters is pretty easy.

If you've got a Mac, you do a print to PDF from the pages you want to isolate.

If you've got a PC, you either use Acrobat Professional (most good colleges have this installed in their computing labs) works on the Mac, too, for fancy stuff)) *or* try cutepdf via:

http://www.cutepdf.com/

There are a lot of ways to make electronic versions of the hardback, but if I really wanted what I think you're asking.... well, $10 for a real Clay-gets-something-out-of-it PDF is a pretty awesome deal

jakk9000 · Post by **jakk9000** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:44 pm

I have the lulu.com hard copy of the book -_-

Plastic_Avatar · Post by **Plastic_Avatar** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:26 pm

jakk9000 wrote:I have the lulu.com hard copy of the book -_-

Never gotten anything via lulu. Is it nice?

Well, the method I use for archiving (if you'd like to try it) is to take a picture, open it in Photoshop, tweak as necessary, then PDF it from there.

Quicker than scanning for me, and, if you've got a decent digital camera, more than enough quality to work from

(Crank sharpening up on your cam to make the letters pop a little more.)

I honestly think I'm going to have to buy a hard copy, even though I just bought the PDF. I think I'll tell my wife it would make a great anniversary present =P

Father of Dragons · Post by **Father of Dragons** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:18 am

If you look, you can still find some of the B&W paperback distribution edition out there for $19.95 or so (my local game store says they can still order them from their distributor). Or, for $29.95, you can get the color and glossy paper paperback from Lulu.com. I have one of each myself. As far as I can tell they have the exact same text. The B&W version is perfectly serviceable, but the color version is really pretty.

jakk9000 · Post by **jakk9000** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:07 am

Well I only know the lulu.com version but it is reaaaaaaallllly nice. I am happy with it and the pics are great in color. The only thing they could do to make the book better is make it hardbound.

Father of Dragons · Post by **Father of Dragons** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:18 pm

Well, Lulu does do hardcovers, so Clay could offer one through them if he wanted to. However, Lulu color hardcovers tend to be a bit expensive. I don't know the exact numbers, but my guess that if Clay did offer a color hardcover via Lulu and kept his cut the same, the book would be in the $40-45 dollar range. Would you pay that much for a color version of OVA?

jakk9000 · Post by **jakk9000** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:14 am

for hardcover I would it would be so kick a@#.

Post by **Clay** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:30 pm

I'm afraid hardcover will not be a practical solution for OVA. Unless lulu has changed something in the past year or so, 6 x 9 hardcovers can only be published in black and white. And it seems, for your buck, it'd be better to have a full-color soft cover than a B&W hardcover.

This lulu copy is not really anything official. It's mainly there so I can print copies for friends. I don't even have it set up to give me royalties. *laughs* But as long as people are enjoying the game, I'm fine with it.

jakk9000 · Post by **jakk9000** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:14 pm

Uh oh I didn't know poor Clay I'll have to get the download copy now (so I can get errata).