Traveller Pocket Rulebook
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Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
No artwork I believe.
dreamingbadger
Mongoose
Rikki Tikki Traveller said:
No it has artwork, what it lacks are the footnotes, which are available as a pdf download, for example on page 188 of the full sized book you have a comment +++ anyone know any good bars in this system+++ which is not present in the pocket edition
lastbesthope
Mongoose
dreamingbadger said:
Some of the footnotes are missing from the download, but most are there.
LBH
Without having both to compare - I do know the page numbers match up -which is great and means they basically scaled down the page. This results in larger top and bottom margins - the bottom is huge - about 1 1/4" (page numbers are on edge) - a great place for notes if you don't mind writing in books!
I don't know if they changed the fonts...
As mentioned - the font is a bit small for most people - (I personally write smaller by a good point or more) - from eyeballing it I would say if you can read a 6 pt Helvetica/Arial on an 8 pt line spacing (as printed - not on the screen - that is 9 lines per inch of text) then you should be fine.
In point of fact, in one respect, if the normal size uses the same body font as High Guard - I find the pocket edition text easier on the eyes as the type isn't as heavy. High Guard looks like everything is bolded - with the letters too squished together making the interline spacing disconcerting. The regular size bold letters have almost no space between letters. (I like the italics weight, but this is a different italic than what is in the Pocket Rulebook - which wouldn't look good in its size).
The practical effect of this is one tends to loose one's place while reading (eyes jump off line - as they percieve 'false' motion from the patterns formed by the bold 'lines' peripheral text creates).
I'd love the other books in digest format - but I know that High Guard would look awful - since the deckplans would be unreadable. For the most part they are already - this is primarily because the plans are improperly rasterized and then printed with default halftoning (or poor pre-process) and without accounting for the paper grain. This could - and should - be fixed with the right knowhow and minimal effort; but there might be other problems (italic fonts may not scale well - changing the font requires matching the metrics of text may reflow undesireably).
The illustrations look great (not refering to taste or style since that is more subjective) - though probably a bit darker than the non-digest size (doubt gamma and line screen were taken into account when images were scaled - this causes the non-linear nature of the eye to percieve dark areas more strongly).
Besides the footnotes missing, there are some multiply ('x') signs missing - easily figured out - but I think, unless you get any earlier edition, that the more resent prints have fixed this (don't know for sure).
All said - I love my copy - the protective coat is peeling from use! (In fact my only real negative is the poor choice of cover - on all the Mongoose books I have - they curl due to the grain and moisture with the protective coating used - my 30 year old LBBs still are flat and look great excepting a little scuffing and color loss on the edges.)
I don't know if they changed the fonts...
As mentioned - the font is a bit small for most people - (I personally write smaller by a good point or more) - from eyeballing it I would say if you can read a 6 pt Helvetica/Arial on an 8 pt line spacing (as printed - not on the screen - that is 9 lines per inch of text) then you should be fine.
In point of fact, in one respect, if the normal size uses the same body font as High Guard - I find the pocket edition text easier on the eyes as the type isn't as heavy. High Guard looks like everything is bolded - with the letters too squished together making the interline spacing disconcerting. The regular size bold letters have almost no space between letters. (I like the italics weight, but this is a different italic than what is in the Pocket Rulebook - which wouldn't look good in its size).
The practical effect of this is one tends to loose one's place while reading (eyes jump off line - as they percieve 'false' motion from the patterns formed by the bold 'lines' peripheral text creates).
I'd love the other books in digest format - but I know that High Guard would look awful - since the deckplans would be unreadable. For the most part they are already - this is primarily because the plans are improperly rasterized and then printed with default halftoning (or poor pre-process) and without accounting for the paper grain. This could - and should - be fixed with the right knowhow and minimal effort; but there might be other problems (italic fonts may not scale well - changing the font requires matching the metrics of text may reflow undesireably).
The illustrations look great (not refering to taste or style since that is more subjective) - though probably a bit darker than the non-digest size (doubt gamma and line screen were taken into account when images were scaled - this causes the non-linear nature of the eye to percieve dark areas more strongly).
Besides the footnotes missing, there are some multiply ('x') signs missing - easily figured out - but I think, unless you get any earlier edition, that the more resent prints have fixed this (don't know for sure).
All said - I love my copy - the protective coat is peeling from use! (In fact my only real negative is the poor choice of cover - on all the Mongoose books I have - they curl due to the grain and moisture with the protective coating used - my 30 year old LBBs still are flat and look great excepting a little scuffing and color loss on the edges.)
