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Voting closed: October 08, 2015, 10:25:56 pm

[TheFlame52]

I am sad now.

[Imic]

I am not one for using bad language.
But fuck photobucket.
I hope that whoever came up with this idea loses all of his money because of it.

[Sanctume]

Hey guys,

Breadbowl Book is a bay12 forum to pdf conversion project by Sanctume, July 2017.

I uploaded to dffd, Rev 0.1 Test Google Docs to Word Docx to PDF

If you download and checkout my initial progress, I need some feedback.

Should I include all posts including comments?
Or just posts related to the story line? 

Example:
After QuQuasar's first post, neblime posted a comment which I did not include in my pdf version. 

However, later as story moves on, Beaskie's post reads within the character.

I suppose I should just include every posts.  It takes longer to read and figure out of the post is within character, or just a general comment. 

The quote section links are just more time consuming to format when I copy and paste from forum to Google docs.  I am even thinking of editing those out.

Or maybe add an image or set of text to indicate it's a comment?

Just jotting some info in my process. 
I spent last night copy and pasting to a new Google doc (Gdoc).  And I also "save as" image to my local, then copy and paste the image into Gdoc also.

Then at work today, I download the Gdoc and opened as *.docx (Word 2013+). 
I edit the docx since the format for Headings 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 did not work transfer to docx.  I needed those tags so I can create a table of contents once everything is done.

To test a final result, "save as" PDF.  The pdf file seems to come, maybe because I have a licensed PDF writer at work.

Anyway, any feedback is appreciated.

[Bearskie]

About your conundrum, how about using Adobe's commenting feature for select comments?
It's also possible to recreate the forum style (See the Deathgate PDF) with colors:

Background: #292929
Header: #EFDF7F
Body: #F0F0F0

[Paxiecrunchle]

I am not one for using bad language.
But fuck photobucket.
I hope that whoever came up with this idea loses all of his money because of it.

I'm just a watcher when it comes to this thread, since it was made by someone who I'm rather fond of,  but is the fellow Photobucket user I want to assure you the feelings mutual they've made their site continuously harder to use over the years, have you consider transferring your stuff to deviantART?

 Anyway, sorry for going slightly off-topic

[HMetal2001]

I am not one for using bad language.
But fuck photobucket.
I hope that whoever came up with this idea loses all of his money because of it.

I'm just a watcher when it comes to this thread, since it was made by someone who I'm rather fond of,  but is the fellow Photobucket user I want to assure you the feelings mutual they've made their site continuously harder to use over the years, have you consider transferring your stuff to deviantART?

 Anyway, sorry for going slightly off-topic

Imgur über alles.

PS: I know next to nothing about German.

[Bearskie]

Empires rise and fall. Soon Imgur too will turn to dust. Whispers speak of such a time, when even threads like these - once mighty and full of hope - fall into depths unknown. Their images ripped from their content headers, leaving nothing but an empty skeleton of a post behind.

And when that happens, all shall have to read my forum captures. Mwuahahahaha.

[Sanctume]

About your conundrum, how about using Adobe's commenting feature for select comments?
It's also possible to recreate the forum style (See the Deathgate PDF) with colors:

Background: #292929
Header: #EFDF7F
Body: #F0F0F0

I can't change background of headers in Google docs.
I'm use to light background so I will stick to that for now. 
Maybe I can play around with colors in Word.

Anyway, I am experimenting with comments features, and see how it converts over from gdoc > docx > pdf.

[Madman198237]

So, what would I need to do to use the Breadbowl save?

It should be fun to poke around. Who knows, maybe I'll even lose spectacularly.

[Sanctume]

I think Bearskie has the last save.

[Madman198237]

What version of DF have we ended up on, and do I need any mods or anything else to play it?

[Sanctume]

We started on 42.06, but I do not recall if it was upgraded to v43.x

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Anyway, I please need feedback if displaying the forum post comments as Normal Blue Text is fine, or can it be improved?

[Madman198237]

That looks fine.


So, anybody remember whether it ended up being upgraded?

[Bearskie]

43.05. My turn kinda broke down, so you should use Broseph Stalin's save. Requires 7z to extract, otherwise the file is corrupted.

[Madman198237]

So if I plug this save into regular-old 43.05, it's not going to give me any errors?