06-28-2013, 04:12 PM | #11 |
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Impressive !
I've been toying with the idea of POD-ing things like the Starships series for some time now, but I'm also slowly getting used to PDFs and e-books. I didn't know you could get so beautiful books from Lulu, though... |
07-17-2013, 09:59 PM | #12 |
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So I finally broke down a couple weeks ago and ordered my GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Omnibus from Lulu. Overall I like the results:
http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/DFOmnibus.html It contains all 15 DF books, plus DF Monsters, DF Adventure 1, the two DF Pyramid magazines and a handful of DF Articles, coming in a bit over 700 pages. One thing I'm a little disappointed with is that the color images came out extremely dark, however the grey-scale images used through most of the books came out pretty nicely and the text came out very clean. EDIT: The total cost was only $53 including Shipping.
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07-17-2013, 10:08 PM | #13 | |
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07-17-2013, 11:32 PM | #14 | |
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Thanks for the pics!
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10-28-2013, 07:01 PM | #15 |
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For anyone that's been thinking about it Lulu is running a significant coupon special, 40% off your order if you use coupon code FALLSALE40. That means that the Dungeon Fantasy Omnibus like the one I had printed would run you only about $26.50 plus shipping, or about $32 with shipping. This coupon is good for your whole order, so if you want more than one book printed up they're all reduced price.
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10-28-2013, 07:04 PM | #16 | |
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How long is that coupon good for?
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10-28-2013, 07:15 PM | #17 |
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10-29-2013, 01:07 AM | #18 |
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Just a quick question about formatting. How are you combing the PDFs together. I am not the best at layout, but I've been thinking about getting a hardcopy Crusades and the Low-Tech supplements.
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10-29-2013, 02:41 AM | #19 | |
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One suggestion I do have for layout, though, is to get yourself a PDF with a single blank page that you can insert after an odd page-numbered PDF; that way you can align it so that page one of a PDF always starts on the right side of the book (this is a minor thing overall, but it's easier to page through a printed book when the odd pages are always on the right hand side and even pages on the left; if you don't insert filler pages then it may go back and forth between books when you do a combined set). You can also use a PDF Printer (like Bullzip) to "print out" a PDF and eliminate the extra advertisement pages at the end of a PDF. This really doesn't make the book any cheaper, but a couple of the PDFs I put in my collection had 3-4 pages of ads at the end, and I really didn't need all of them there.
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10-29-2013, 10:11 AM | #20 | |
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Also, how about the covers? Some of the images here have custom ones. Does Lulu have an automated feature to help with those, or will I need Photoshop (which I have but don't know how to use)? |
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