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Calculator Community => Discontinued => Major Community Projects => Escheron: Shadow over Ragnoth => Topic started by: Zera on May 08, 2010, 10:13:40 pm
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I've gone over several attempts to create a manual for the game using rich text-editors, but I can't do anything right. When I want to insert an image, the text formatting gets screwed-up, I can't resize or align the image the way I want, or there's some other issue I can't resolve. Inserting tables is even more tedious - it's all jumbled or misaligned. I also hate how the formatting seems to reset between every word, or how using multiple formatting settings between sentences and paragraphs just causes everything in the document to bug-out. Suffice it to say, I neither have the patience nor ability to produce this. :P
That's where you come in. I need a volunteer (with experience creating eBooks, or other documents with rich formatting and images) to help produce a game manual. I will supply all the details and images for you to use. It would be a matter of you inserting it into the document and arranging everything to look neat and presentable; then outputting a PDF file that we can distribute with the game. I can't offer you any real compensation for your time and effort, since the project is entirely a community effort anyway; you will, however, be credited in the game's own ending sequence.
Any takers?
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if i wasnt so busy with school atm i would be willing to take a try at it
if the info is all set already i could try to get a rtf of it idk how to make pdf though ive always had good luck with msword so
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I can't do any typing or designing information. However, if all the text and images are supplied, I will gladly create the pdf.
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I can't do any typing or designing information. However, if all the text and images are supplied, I will gladly create the pdf.
Do you have experience with this kind of design? Any samples or works you can post here?
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I can't do any typing or designing information. However, if all the text and images are supplied, I will gladly create the pdf.
Do you have experience with this kind of design? Any samples or works you can post here?
I left my sample back at my college computer, so I can have it for you tomorrow
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I could probably do it. No guarantees but I'd like to at least give it a try if you would like me to :)
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I hear you, I spent like 20 hours on ROL3 readme cuz of the same reasons. 3 years later I discovered it only opened right in Word 2000 x.x
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wow bit ironic is that i still use word 2000
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and gluck with this ^)^
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Incidentally, I'll still be ready with a sample for you tomorrow, but if it is enough to show you what I'm capable of doing, here's a link to a manual that I didn't do, but what I'm capable of doing given the resources:
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.2104
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I don't need anything as robust as the SC manual - just some images and tables inserted neatly into the document.
It's going to be fairly short, but I want to outline a few example screens of things like status effects and elemental property, have small pictures of character portraits in the character bio section, and a full-page view of the Escheron overworld.
I need to go ahead and start working on all the text / descriptions. Is this something we could discuss over e-mail?
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Here's the sample with picture/table alignment.
Yes, email will be great. If you have another method such as IM, that will work too. Otherwise I'll send my email to you via private message.
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(I like this design btw)
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That looks perfect. :)
Let me go ahead and get these descriptions down, and I'll PM you later asking for your e-mail.
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Special thanks to Hot Dog for providing a game manual. I did a bit of final editing on it, myself. (mostly just grammar I had overlooked, and spacing)
Let me know what you guys think.
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Wow, that's really nice! I really like how some of the effects (like Monk's Blood) develop over time. I can't wait to see what you do next. :D
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Looks nice. Good job with the manual guys! ^^
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How were you able to make those changes, by the way?
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How were you able to make those changes, by the way?
I used a PDF-editor. It handles the document like a rich-text editor, basically.
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Wow great job so far! Glad to see progress on this :)