Difference between revisions of "Deck as PDF"

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The deck of cards can be printed from a PDF file.

Printing the cards

The deck can be printed using a printer-ready file (PDF). Currently available version is v2.0 (rev 2.03):

Printer-ready file (about 41MB). Please see printing recommendations, below.

For on-screen previewing this RGB version may be better.

Crop margins are included.

Recommended printer settings

A3, two-sided, left binding.
For those already familiar with the cards (i.e., with less need to check the screenshots and their small captions), scaling down to A4/Letter may be proper, reducing printing costs.

Other printing recommendations

Please test colour results in your printer, using one of the front pages, before printing the all deck.
We noticed that some printers render the file too dark. In those cases, a simple solution was to reduce intensity (or "increase lightness") by several points.
Please share your experience, should you find trouble or better approaches to do this. (We are aware there is something we should do regarding colour management in the file but we did not yet get it right.)

The workspace

The suggested workspace can also be printed, although drawing it by hand is far more simple. The equivalent to an A2 (420mm×594mm ≈ 16.5"×23.4") is big enough.

The suggested workspace can also be printed. We've been using something like an A2 format, printed in a plotter, which seems to be big enough.
Yet, two A3 sheets glued together, with the regions drawn by hand, do the job, too...