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Progress Report – Week of 2017/02/18
Had a bit of addition by subtraction this week as Modern Knights and RoboMACs revisions have fallen completely off the list. Secret Code project #1 bit the had a successful test of a key needed feature for the code to have a reason to exist. This bodes well even if it is daunting as the…
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Progress Report: Week Ending February 10, 2017
The past two weeks have been fraught with illness and dissappointment along with a nontrivial bit of failure moving forward on several fronts. My primary task for the last week of January was sorting out project management. Something I’d done with steno notepads in the past. It works up to a point but it is…
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The Project List
I have 3 categories of projects I have up in the air right now. Tabletop RPGs Modern Knights – This has two activities going on with it. The first is a heavy re-edit of the rules as they were.. not the most clear in the first edition. The second activity is splitting it between the…
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Well, Huh.
I knew I hadn’t looked at this in a while but I was pretty sure it wasn’t that long ago. I’m looking at using this as part of my stay motivated and get stuff finished that are long over do process for 2017. yeah. I know. That’s how New Year’s Resolutions sound. Meh. I used…
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Success! Mostly!
With some work and fiddliness, I have finally made my first miniproject goalpost complete. It’s a simple one-page, character dossier of one of the sample characters in the book. Download it here! Producing this took a combination of Inkscape, the pstools suite, The Gimp, and Scribus. The biggest problem I faced with this was something…
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Give up? Or forge forward?
I finally got one of my templates looking like I wanted after a great deal of on and off time. I was, however, rather horrified at the size of the pdf output – some of which seems to have been due to the image, but even deleting it it was as large as several dozen…
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The most recent WTF…
After a bit of a break, I’ve come back to the book again and spent a little time looking at alternative faces for the previously mentioned Blambot choice, Wicked Queen. I went back and looked at another Comics inspired fontmaker, Iconian Fonts to see if I could find something that suited. To the left you’ll…
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Getting Back to it.
Quite a bit of idle here. Well, trying to get back to it. Skipped ahead to Modern Knights in the project list. So, Let’s restate the problem. As I said originally, http://oss.copy.to/2010/12/whats-this-all-about/, This is about rebuilding old projects originally done in Pagemaker 6/6.5 in Scribus. While I will be using SVN scribus, everything else will…
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Another Tool I haven’t quite found a replacement for…
A decent outlining tool. Any thoughts?
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The First Challenge – Master Pages
The Pharos Press Edition of Lace and Steel made use of two sets of Master Pages. The first set blank, the second a set of right, left sidebar pages with a sword and rose emblem. For some reason, inexplicable to me, this emblem art was saved as an EPS. Probably because it was the only…
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