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the_rckThere was a slight hitch in printing stuff for the LARP. I wrote the game in an old program. The files I started with were AppleWorks files (but it's quite possible that I wrote the game long enough ago that it started out in a different format). I converted them to Pages but discovered that the conversion process introduced a formatting problem for printing that I couldn't figure out how to get around-- All the documents want to print in landscape with no top or bottom margin, losing some of the text between each page. I ended up cutting and pasting each document into a new file to get around that problem. I hope we can figure out some better way of doing the whole thing. We've got hundreds of files to convert, and it's going to be frustrating enough dealing with the documents we can't do a straightforward conversion on.
I'm also frustrated because I can't find our LARP supplies. We always kept and reused the folders and rules packets, and we had extra name tags and index cards and masking tape and so on. It's been about nine years since we last ran a game, and neither Scott nor I know where we put the supplies. The last time I remember seeing them, they were in one of those smallish wheeled suitcases with the extendible handles. I found three of those in the basement, but none of them held game supplies (one held crocheting, two held other suitcases). I also went through the filing cabinet (and found some index cards, enough, I think, to get through this game). I can't imagine getting rid of the supplies, and Scott also boggles at the very idea, so the supplies must be somewhere in the house. Possibly, we have a fourth wheeled suitcase that I just didn't find. We'll have to search more carefully tomorrow or Saturday.
I hope we don't have to buy new folders. I also hope we don't have to reprint the rules. The rules run about eight pages. If we need to redo them, we might resort to a copy shop, assuming we can find one.
I'm also frustrated because I can't find our LARP supplies. We always kept and reused the folders and rules packets, and we had extra name tags and index cards and masking tape and so on. It's been about nine years since we last ran a game, and neither Scott nor I know where we put the supplies. The last time I remember seeing them, they were in one of those smallish wheeled suitcases with the extendible handles. I found three of those in the basement, but none of them held game supplies (one held crocheting, two held other suitcases). I also went through the filing cabinet (and found some index cards, enough, I think, to get through this game). I can't imagine getting rid of the supplies, and Scott also boggles at the very idea, so the supplies must be somewhere in the house. Possibly, we have a fourth wheeled suitcase that I just didn't find. We'll have to search more carefully tomorrow or Saturday.
I hope we don't have to buy new folders. I also hope we don't have to reprint the rules. The rules run about eight pages. If we need to redo them, we might resort to a copy shop, assuming we can find one.
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Date: 2012-10-03 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-03 08:19 pm (UTC)I suppose, if we have to replace the rules, it at least gives me an excuse to put them into a better font than the one they're currently in.
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Date: 2012-10-04 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-04 04:31 pm (UTC)Thanks for the offer, but I think we can print the rules ourselves. It's just annoying to have to. It does, though, give me an excuse to reformat them and put them in times new Roman instead of Geneva. Why I thought Geneva was a good idea, I have no idea.