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Spoiler-Free Sourcebooks?

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Wed, 2015-04-29 05:04
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Kojak Kojak's picture
Spoiler-Free Sourcebooks?
While I'm guessing the answer is no, I just thought I'd ask: are there any versions of the sourcebooks (especially the core rulebook, Rimward and Sunward) that have the Game Information section pruned out? I'd love to be able to share copies of the books with the players in my upcoming campaign but I don't want them to get spoiled on info re: the ETIs, the origins of the Titans, the various plot hooks I might make use of, and so forth.
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Wed, 2015-04-29 10:17
ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
if you have a pdf editor you
if you have a pdf editor you can delete the relevant GM eyes only entries yourself. if all you have is physical copies, rob boyle has the pdf's on his site and I can be accommodating.
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Wed, 2015-04-29 10:47
Kojak Kojak's picture
ORCACommander wrote:if you
ORCACommander wrote:
if you have a pdf editor you can delete the relevant GM eyes only entries yourself.
Is there a PDF editor you'd recommend?
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Wed, 2015-04-29 12:23
SquireNed SquireNed's picture
Kojak wrote:ORCACommander
Kojak wrote:
ORCACommander wrote:
if you have a pdf editor you can delete the relevant GM eyes only entries yourself.
Is there a PDF editor you'd recommend?
Really, only Adobe Acrobat. You could *try* Scribus, but its PDF import support is limited. As for third-party editors that require payment, I don't know that picking one up is worth it versus just doing the Adobe Acrobat route. However, if you only want to remove pages, you should be able to do that with something like PDFill (the free tools, you don't need the whole editor). It's Windows only and a blast from the past, but I've used it for a long time: https://www.pdfill.com/ Alternatively, there are command-line PDF tools for doing stuff like that, but I can't think of any names right now. Ghostscript might have them integrated to the project, or it may be a separate but affiliated project.
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Wed, 2015-04-29 17:46
groduick groduick's picture
Or you can use pdf-printing
Or you can use pdf-printing software like cutepdf and print only the relevent pages
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Thu, 2015-04-30 04:30
Pyrite Pyrite's picture
For an easy solution, you can
For an easy solution, you can also load up a pdf in Google Chrome and trigger it to print specific pages to PDF, creating a new PDF file with only those pages.
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Thu, 2015-04-30 06:15
Kojak Kojak's picture
Pyrite wrote:For an easy
Pyrite wrote:
For an easy solution, you can also load up a pdf in Google Chrome and trigger it to print specific pages to PDF, creating a new PDF file with only those pages.
Any chance you could give me the step-by-step version of that? That sounds really ideal, but I don't know how to do what you're describing. Explain it as though I were some kind of stupid person.
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Thu, 2015-04-30 10:36
MAD Crab MAD Crab's picture
First Pass
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-DbLHqEB9EuVS1uYWZoZmVzM0U/view?usp=sh... On Ubuntu anyway you can simply open the PDF in the normal viewer, select 'print,' select 'print to file' from the printer list, go down to the 'pages' box and enter the pages you want. In this case "1-351, 392-402" The downside of this method is that it breaks all the useful internal hyperlinks, removes the bookmarks/index, and the table of contents is still all spoilerish. Still, better than nothing.
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Thu, 2015-04-30 16:49
Pyrite Pyrite's picture
Kojak wrote:
Kojak wrote:
Any chance you could give me the step-by-step version of that? That sounds really ideal, but I don't know how to do what you're describing. Explain it as though I were some kind of stupid person.
1: Open a Google Chrome window. 2: Drag the icon of the PDF from the file or your desktop into the Chrome window. 3: In the upper right hand corner of the Chrome window there is a set of three horizontal lines. Click that. In the dropdown it presents, click 'print'. This will take you to a 'print preview' page. 4: Identify what pages of your document you want to exclude, and put a range of pages (or several ranges of pages) in the box for pages on the left hand side. Remember that the PDF will count the cover and such as pages, while the table of contents will not. You'll want to adjust for that. 5: If the destination on the upper left side is not already 'save as PDF', hit 'change' and select that option. It should be at the top of the list. 6: Once you've got all the pages you need selected, hit 'save'. That should be all you need to know.
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Thu, 2015-04-30 18:04
Kojak Kojak's picture
Pyrite wrote:Kojak wrote:
Pyrite wrote:
Kojak wrote:
Any chance you could give me the step-by-step version of that? That sounds really ideal, but I don't know how to do what you're describing. Explain it as though I were some kind of stupid person.
1: Open a Google Chrome window. 2: Drag the icon of the PDF from the file or your desktop into the Chrome window. 3: In the upper right hand corner of the Chrome window there is a set of three horizontal lines. Click that. In the dropdown it presents, click 'print'. This will take you to a 'print preview' page. 4: Identify what pages of your document you want to exclude, and put a range of pages (or several ranges of pages) in the box for pages on the left hand side. Remember that the PDF will count the cover and such as pages, while the table of contents will not. You'll want to adjust for that. 5: If the destination on the upper left side is not already 'save as PDF', hit 'change' and select that option. It should be at the top of the list. 6: Once you've got all the pages you need selected, hit 'save'. That should be all you need to know.
Thank you very much, this is immensely helpful.
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Fri, 2015-05-01 17:26
eaton eaton's picture
On MacOS, you can make a copy
On MacOS, you can make a copy of the PDF, then delete the pages you don't want to appear. I used that approach to extract a couple of "Playing an Infomorph" handouts from Transhuman for my group.
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