In 1978, I had a copy of Melee, the 3 Little Brown Books (OD&D), and the Afrika Korps map instead of Outdoor Survival. I’ve been doing it wrong ever since.
I write fantasy stories, often about the swordsman Kabor.
I am a partner in Dark City Games.
Swords Under Distant Suns is also the name of the magazine I am publishing, featuring Swords & Sorcery and Sword and Planet stories.
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Sir Rad the Red’s fate was sudden. Rushes in to save the day, slays a foe with his first blow…then sayonara in the next panel.
Hey, DarkPumpkin,
Yeah, sadly Sir Rad’s heroic career was brief. As you know, TFT/LAW can be brutal!
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you like issue #2 coming up very soon!
Really nicely done in the comic-book format.
is the entire file downloadable (pdf)?
Hello, Marc,
Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate the kind words!
Each page of the comic book is a jpeg. I hadn’t thought about the possibility of putting them altogether as a pdf download.
I’ll look into that possibility in the next few days, and let you know!
or there’s the program ‘comic book reader’ and similar (jocomic?), which create an archive of images I think, which can be then ‘read’ in a more natural ‘book’ way – i.e. double-page spreads etc.
I use acrobat pro to combine docs / images into pdfs – but would have thought there are other software tools around, possibly freeware too.
I am using Comic Life 3, the trial version (which is just about expired). I am definitely going to buy the full version for 30 bucks. There may be something in that program that will allow you to combine all the pages into a pdf. I haven’t explored all the possibilities of the program yet.
I’ve seen the Comic Book Reader program, as there are a few sites hosting old pulp magazines like Weird Tales that require it, but I have not downloaded it yet. A freeware version of Acrobat Pro is also a possibility, like you say.
Thanks for the tips, Marc!
Probably not the ideal solution but definitely a cheap and easy solution for combining all the jpegs into one PDF…
I use LibreOffice at home. It’s free. MS Word 2013 and later allow exporting to PDF (I think). You can adjust the margins of a “word doc” however you like then post the full-page jpegs into the doc and export to PDF.
If your version of “word” doesn’t allow export to PDF, there is a free program I’ve used for years called CutePDF. It installs a “PDF printer” on your computer. You “print” the “word doc” and send it to the “CutePDF Printer” instead of your normal printer. CutePDF then asks where you want to save the PDF.
Be careful when installing CutePDF though. When I first started using it, they didn’t sneak extra crap-ware in. Nowadays, it will if you don’t pay attention to the installing dialog windows. There will be screens where you need uncheck a box to avoid getting extra crapware installed. The only thing you need to allow CutePDF to install is “GhostScript”. That is completely legit. It’s like an opensource postscript library that is the real muscle of CutePDF. Postscript is sort of like the language of PDF files – sort of like how HTML is the language of webpages.
Sorry for the long-winded necro post. You probably already have this solved.
Hey, Plat, it turns out that Comic Life does have the ability to publish a pdf. Thanks for the info, though!
“They came for vengeance. . .” I hope they get some.
This was a fun read: all action, just enough exposition, no distractions. old school visuals. For the future, give us more dialogue, as the brutal battle mechanics of TFT whittles down the party to a manageable size.
Thanks, Baron! I’ll work on the dialogue. I want to find a good balance to that, while keeping the 1970’s Marvel Comics vibe to both action and words.