FlightCommanderSolitude
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I'm almost certain you need to connect the machine to the internet to activate DRM for that machine; once that's done I doubt it needs to be connected.
MegaTraveller CDRom?
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FlightCommanderSolitude
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I'm almost certain you need to connect the machine to the internet to activate DRM for that machine; once that's done I doubt it needs to be connected.
Nope. Marc is still enthusiastically moving forward with the CD-rom plans!</font>[/QUOTE]Yay!
Good thing I dropped by this forum. That's an important peice of info!
Malefant: No, you cannot activate a DRM file on a system without web access. </font>[/QUOTE]And since most of my computers DO NOT HAVE internet access (neither of my laptops), the CDRom is still the way to go. Y'see, for game books, the DRM "authorization" process is not optimal for how I use them. I often use other people's machines, and don't have the option of installing. Additionally, I don't want to authorize publically accessible terminals... which I sometimes use. (School labs...) From a CD Rom, I neither install them nor leave a copy when I'm done; I just pull the CD out and go.
In short, DRM means I can only use them items by either printing them, or reading them on my home PC or my PDA. And the PDA screen is WAY TOO SMALL.
So I will wait for the CDRom, hoping it will be pasworded PDF's, rather than DRMed PDF.
and I'm very glad that MWM is going that way.
Nope. Marc is still enthusiastically moving forward with the CD-rom plans!</font>[/QUOTE]Yay!
Good thing I dropped by this forum. That's an important peice of info!
Malefant: No, you cannot activate a DRM file on a system without web access. </font>[/QUOTE]And since most of my computers DO NOT HAVE internet access (neither of my laptops), the CDRom is still the way to go. Y'see, for game books, the DRM "authorization" process is not optimal for how I use them. I often use other people's machines, and don't have the option of installing. Additionally, I don't want to authorize publically accessible terminals... which I sometimes use. (School labs...) From a CD Rom, I neither install them nor leave a copy when I'm done; I just pull the CD out and go.
In short, DRM means I can only use them items by either printing them, or reading them on my home PC or my PDA. And the PDA screen is WAY TOO SMALL.
So I will wait for the CDRom, hoping it will be pasworded PDF's, rather than DRMed PDF.
and I'm very glad that MWM is going that way.
Nope. Marc is still enthusiastically moving forward with the CD-rom plans!</font>[/QUOTE]Yay!
Good thing I dropped by this forum. That's an important peice of info!
Malefant: No, you cannot activate a DRM file on a system without web access. </font>[/QUOTE]And since most of my computers DO NOT HAVE internet access (neither of my laptops), the CDRom is still the way to go. Y'see, for game books, the DRM "authorization" process is not optimal for how I use them. I often use other people's machines, and don't have the option of installing. Additionally, I don't want to authorize publically accessible terminals... which I sometimes use. (School labs...) From a CD Rom, I neither install them nor leave a copy when I'm done; I just pull the CD out and go.
In short, DRM means I can only use them items by either printing them, or reading them on my home PC or my PDA. And the PDA screen is WAY TOO SMALL.
So I will wait for the CDRom, hoping it will be pasworded PDF's, rather than DRMed PDF.
and I'm very glad that MWM is going that way.
hunter
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The plan right now is that they will be standard PDFs. I have heard nothing from Marc to indicate he is even thinking about going any other route.
As a note, the GDW material isn't available through DTRPG because of the DRM *security*. There are other factors as to why the GDW material is available there. They are there mainly because Marc didn't have to do much of anything to make them available. DTRPG did all of the scanning and OCR work. It would have taken him a lot of his time and effort to scan and OCR all of those books on his own.
Hunter
hunter
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The plan right now is that they will be standard PDFs. I have heard nothing from Marc to indicate he is even thinking about going any other route.
As a note, the GDW material isn't available through DTRPG because of the DRM *security*. There are other factors as to why the GDW material is available there. They are there mainly because Marc didn't have to do much of anything to make them available. DTRPG did all of the scanning and OCR work. It would have taken him a lot of his time and effort to scan and OCR all of those books on his own.
Hunter
hunter
Ancient - Absent Friend
The plan right now is that they will be standard PDFs. I have heard nothing from Marc to indicate he is even thinking about going any other route.
As a note, the GDW material isn't available through DTRPG because of the DRM *security*. There are other factors as to why the GDW material is available there. They are there mainly because Marc didn't have to do much of anything to make them available. DTRPG did all of the scanning and OCR work. It would have taken him a lot of his time and effort to scan and OCR all of those books on his own.
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That must have been mind-numbingly boring for people to do, unless they can just rip out the pages and put them into a photocopier-like paper feed to scan automatically. (I'm not up on my office technology. I'm sure there must be a gizmo that does that though?)
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That must have been mind-numbingly boring for people to do, unless they can just rip out the pages and put them into a photocopier-like paper feed to scan automatically. (I'm not up on my office technology. I'm sure there must be a gizmo that does that though?)
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Malenfant
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That must have been mind-numbingly boring for people to do, unless they can just rip out the pages and put them into a photocopier-like paper feed to scan automatically. (I'm not up on my office technology. I'm sure there must be a gizmo that does that though?)
Yes, mal, there are scanners that will do that.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
Yes, mal, there are scanners that will do that.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
Yes, mal, there are scanners that will do that.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
Also, rather than rip pages out, you use a guillotine cutter to remove the whole binding. (I did this with my Starfire rulebook.)
Most decent print shops have these for flattening the outside edge of saddle bound (stapled) books.
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