Nexstat
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What's the best way to deliver PDFs weekly?
🕑 Added 2021-05-15 06:13:56 +0000 UTCHey all!
Thanks to AstralBot3D, I've moved over to a new program (Affinity Publisher) for compiling my PDFs of my stories. This means I can make much higher quality PDFs, and for only a fraction of the size of my old method!
I'll be going through and re-exporting my old stories too into this new higher quality format for the pinned post with all the stories, but the question I have for you guys is about the weekly drops:
Would you rather have each week just be the new ten pages so you know what's new (the current method)?
OR
Would you rather a continuously updated PDF each week, meaning each week you are downloading the full story again, but with the extra ten panels added from that week?
There are benefits to both and with this new method it's made it much easier to manage full stories so I can now do the SECOND version. I'm also only going to do ONE of these methods, not both!
Keep in mind this doesn't effect the single panel folder from the Google Drive, this is only a question about the PDFs.
I'm still working on a way to supply the full stories in panel form as well along with the PDF version... I've figured how I want to do it but I just haven't had time to enact it yet with all these delays and having to re-work all the past panels of both the new stories from the recent error I found! I WILL have a method for it when I can find the time to enact it π
But for now, let me know what you think with this poll π
Much love,
Nexy xx
Comments
Zeno
Okay.
Nexstat
You pressing the delete button once is WAY easier than me processing two different PDFs π Also this way if you wanna read back on the story or re read it from the start, you don't have to continuously open and close the PDFs you have to find the part you're looking for, it's always gonna be in the newest file π
Zeno
Well, I would continuously have to delete the previous files otherwise, but okay then.
Nexstat
As I said in the post, I'm only going to do one of these as I'm trying to streamline the process π
Zeno
Maybe you could use both options? It seems more practical to me.
Nexstat
Well in fact it does!... As I mentioned in the status they actually come out much SMALLER with the new method π
TheLilithAshlight
Question bestest nexy, won't this affect file sizes?
Nexstat
Well if it's on google drive then you still need to download it, you're just downloading it from their instead Also I don't want to use the same folder in GD and update it over and over, because then someone could sub for one day at the start of the comic, get the link, then unsub and just wait for it to be updated every week without paying π
Popcorn523
Maybe you can share the PDF via google drive and there for we wont be needed to download it every single time
Nexstat
Yep, makes sense! π
Steve Jerrison
For me personally I prefer the full story as a PDF with the additional 10 pages. I like to read the story first, before reading the new pages
