Co-founder & co-owner of Posthuman Studios, an award-winning hobby game publisher. Posts about publishing, graphic design, Creative Commons licensing, gaming, and more.
I’ve updated the Adobe InDesign PDF Preset that I use and recommend other use for digital publishing to correct an accessibility issue. The updated file is in the original post with a few notes about specifics.
There’s a confluence of three things going on right now: I’ve been working on a lot of Eclipse Phase adventures, and trying hard to evolve their presentation to make them easier to absorb when first reading and easier to run at the table without a ton of page-flipping — especially page-flipping that requires leaving one […]
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This week, as part of the GM’s Day Sale, DriveThru has put together a Design & Publishing Bundle! The bundle includes my Versatile InDesign Book Covers video tutorial and a bunch of other great stuff—Ray Vallese’s Writing With Style: An Editor’s Advice for RPG Writers, Monte Cook & Shanna Germain’s crowdfunding advice book, Kicking It, and […]
This is an unproofed off-the-cuff post! If it’s interesting, please back my Patreon for more. I posted some table graphics to various social media over the last couple weeks: Here’s a consolidation of them with some better explanations. EP2 has two types of tables; inline tables and floating tables. Roughly, the inline tables are […]
Every Friday, a list of five things: 5ive on Friday. Quickly bashed out, designed to start not finish conversations. 95% of these will be inspired by the week’s social media conversations. Just My Type Excerpts There’s an independent bookstore about a block from my new office space. Danger danger! I’ve managed to only buy one […]
A million years ago, I cooked up an InDesign PDF Export Preset to handle exporting PDFs that worked well on the then-brand-new iPad while maintaining relatively small file sizes. I still use that preset basically every day, having published dozens of books with it. You can download it here. Adobe has instructions for loading PDF […]
I’ve been buried under a log jam of production work for the past several months, and my lumberjack class skill of +4 (+2 when I wear that sweet lumberjacky shirt) has finally worked parts of the jam loose! First off is The Devotees, a new adventure for Eclipse Phase. It’s available in both print and […]
I’m going to speaking at PePcon in Chicago this summer. This is the fifth Print + ePublishing Conference, hosted by the fine people that run InDesignSecrets and CreativePro. I’ve attended three of the four previous PePcons, and it’s always a smoothly-run show with great speakers and a collaborative, sharing atmosphere. It attracts a pretty wide […]
Happy Distress! is the newest Skin Deep texture; it’s available on DriveThruRPG for only $3, and it contains 12 different files: eleven 8.5×11 300DPI distressed textures, and one larger 600DPI file that is a scan of the various pieces of duct tape that were used to create the analog textures. I thought they looked cool […]