This might sound stupid but does anyone have a picture of assembled trifolds or instructions on how to print and fold them? I’m guessing you print the relevant info for a trifold on both sides of one piece of paper then fold it in thirds somehow?
This might sound stupid but does anyone have a picture of assembled trifolds or instructions on how to print and…
This might sound stupid but does anyone have a picture of assembled trifolds or instructions on how to print and…
I always forget to select the option for “page turns on short edge” and end up with trifolds that you have to flip the wrong way.
Marshall Miller is that when you are using the printer to print on both sides of a piece of paper? I’m totally lost with these lol
It’s basically fold-and-print, yeah. To fold in thirds…you could either measure it, fold in the “gutter” between the panels, or loosely fold in both sides and lightly crease it, experimentally.
Is it a Z like shape after folding or do you fold both sides inward? I know I’m making this more difficult then it should be. I’m the guy that picked up the game and have to MC and ready all materials so I just want to make the books properly!
I would fold both sides inward. All of the most pertinent character info is on the one side. (Oh, huh! They actually have lines for you to fold along on the inside. I’d forgotten that.)
Andy Hauge thank you! I would still like to see a finished product pic if anyone has one.
There should be lines on the inner pages of the trifold, usually you fold on those lines. Depending on how you print the trifold you might end up with a little extra paper on the edges, I just cut those off so it folds nicely along the lines.
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These were custom character sheet trifolds, but you get the idea.
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You know, back in my day, when we wanted to play Apocalypse World, we had to walk uphill five miles in the snow, both ways, just to fold our playbooks! Kids these days…
Patrick Henry Downs thanks a bunch! Super helpful
You print and odd and a even page on either side of the paper. So that you have the Picture of the trifold with the name of the playset opposite to rules for creating the character. The moves are opposite to the side with the Barter session.
Then you fold the Move section over the center of the page and the picture session over that.
Is that clear?
Igor Toscano only question left is how “page turns on short edge” affects making the books.
Well, imagine the page. Imagine printing on one side of the page, and then flipping it over to the other side. You could either flip it over the short side or over the long side.
If you flip it over the short side, then both sides (if the page is in landscape orientation) have the same “up”. If you flip it over the long side, then both sides (if the page is in landscape orientation) are in opposing directions.
tl;dr–you have to pick “flip the page on the short edge” for double-sided printing. If you pick “long edge”, then the back will be upside-down.
Thanks for all the answers!
Full disclosure: I’ve never put together an Apocalypse World playbook. I got all this from putting together early-version Dungeon World playbooks. 😉
Yeah, both sides. Ends up like a brochure.
Man, you think the trifolds were complicated, you guys should have seen the old playbooks.
The first one you print will probably have the second page upside down.