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If you are a [[People#Story Guide|Story Guide]] - i.e. if you are running a game - then you can order bulk A4 double-sided colour laser printing in advance. | If you are a [[People#Story Guide|Story Guide]] - i.e. if you are running a game - then you can order bulk A4 double-sided colour laser printing in advance. | ||
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Revision as of 15:51, 14 March 2013
If you are a Story Guide - i.e. if you are running a game - then you can order bulk A4 double-sided colour laser printing in advance.
This is being offered by staff member Andrew Oakley at my own personal expense. Please email me the files as attachments:
It is your responsibility to check with me before the event to confirm that this printing has happened.
Acceptable file formats
- PDF is most preferred - very strongly the most preferred
- Microsoft Word .doc and .docx are accepted
- OpenOffice and LibreOffice .odt is accepted
- Bitmap images .jpg , .png and .gif are accepted
- Vector images .svg and .wmf are accepted
Restrictions
If you are from outside Europe, please make sure that your document still makes sense when printed on A4 paper. If you're using US Letter paper, this means that your document may be shrunk slightly to fit the squatter dimensions of A4.
Each page must be predominantly white or a very pale near-white colour. No whole pages of black or colour please, it uses up too much toner. No full-page photos unless they're predominantly white/pale. If you're printing maps, then the colour that represents the largest area should be white. If it's a map of the sea, the sea should be white. If it's a map of land, most of the land should be white. Feel free to add a green or blue border to coastlines to highlight the fact that they're coastlines, but for heaven's sake don't fill in the whole map with colour.
If you can't work out how to adjust your map to suit this, email it to me as an .svg or .png and ask, and I'll probably be able to adjust it for you.
If you send a file with a lot of pages, I will print it as an A5 booklet (A4 folded in half and bound together with a staple).
Equipment
At home, I have a Xerox 6130DN double-sided A4 colour laser network printer. This is a massive full-sized office laser printer. It is connected to a number of Ubuntu Linux computers running Libre Office, plus one Microsoft Windows 8 computer running Microsoft Office 2010. All of them also run Adobe Reader.
Printing is onto cheap matt A4 photocopier paper.
At the venue I may bring a monochrome single-sided inkjet printer & Linux laptop, but you should not rely on this. I certainly won't be bringing a massive full-sized office laser printer.
