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Nice! There should be a thing you can tick to make it embed in the itch page too, so people can just read it without donwloading

waaah thank you!

lebsbians!

❤️❤️❤️ It's a lot, and this zine shows your feelings well. I hope getting it out there is able to help!

Hi! If you save as an HTML file in Decker then you can have the zine readable in the browser on your itch page as well as offering a download

oh my gosh I'm in one of the poems :o

Hi, is there a reason you took the print functionality out of the template?

I'm glad you got it finished in time! Make sure to get some rest now that it's finished <3

Hiiii! Wow, the art in this looks amazing! I'm really glad that you made this and shared it! It was kinda wild seeing myself mentioned in the "about this zine" section, I'm really glad that I was able to help you. I hope you're able to make more Decker things in the future!

Yes, please share your game! As far as I'm aware it's absolutely OK to share your own works here!

Decker can lag a bit with larger file sizes, but there may be some ways to bring it down. A recent Decker update added better image compression, that can help if you've got a lot of images. I did peek into your profile and found your game, and I noticed it's made with an older version, so updating could help. Another thing that can help is keeping in mind that each card will have a separate copy of an image, even if they're mostly the same. So if you've got two cards with the same or similar images and just different scripts, maybe they can be combined. But it may be tricky to do that with a project that's already pretty large.

I hope you do!

Oof, yeah some of this is very relatable. I'm glad you have felt able to publish this <3

The PDFs are generated with the library that comes with Decker, which seems to unfortunately have some compatibility issues with Acrobat. I've found that they work OK when opened with Chrome or Firefox and their built-in PDF viewers though, so give that a try.

Unfortunately not a lot I can do to fix this, tbh this is one reason I included the gif export as well.

Antivirus software tends to be overly cautious about unknown software, especially where the developer hasn't paid for a certificate or whatever. If you downloaded Decker from the Itch page it should be fine.

Yeah the template has a popup now if you're not on 1.65 or greater

You can really put the pages in any order you want, but yeah I think when I looked up templates as a guide the one I found had the cover on the bottom left instead of the bottom right. I just did a search and found templates that go both ways

Yeah, you're not the first to suggest this. I'll see what I can do

Yeah, that's how it should work. I guess whichever template I was basing things off arranged it that way. Does it make much difference? It wouldn't be too tricky to rearrange the page order in the code I think

Jam's going well, and plenty of time to still make something if you want to!

One common pitfall is you really do need to upgrade to Decker 1.65. I've seen a couple of cases where people have started work in an older version, and aside from some of the print functionality being a bit borked it seems to break some of the modules and contraptions, so even if they do update there'll still be a few things that have gone funny. So it's a good idea to update before starting any work.

Aha that makes sense with when I've seen others have the same thing happen. And yay it's fixed now!!!

Ahh rad! Looks like something happened with the margin toggle though :o and the transitions aren't transitioning for the page flips. So right now you can't adjust the print margins!

If you're having issues I can probably help you fix it, let me know!

Hey, is there a reason you took the print buttons out? Part of the idea of the jam was that people would be able to export the print version themselves (including adjusting the margins for whatever printer they have)

Hell yeah!

Hi! It looks like something happened with the save gif and pdf buttons, they're supposed to flip the top pages so you can fold it but it looks like that isn't working. Possibly you need to update to the latest Decker version and re-export the html, since the "flip" function I used was only added then.

Art looks great btw, love the colours and all!

Aww these two :3

Plenty of time to join the jam if you are interested!

I've written up a few tips about using this template, since I think some stuff is a bit non-obvious (like the funny resolution) and it's caused some confusion and questions. https://micpp.itch.io/hybrid-zine-template-for-decker/devlog/1488285/a-few-tips-...

I am kind of not inclined to add more bloat than I need to - like if I add every font that's a lot of stuff being bundled that isn't needed. Plus if there's ever updates to them it's more that I need to keep updated. And I don't want to sort of enshrine those as THE fonts necessarily.

Mostly the hook is the print capabilities so I want to stick to that as a dependency. I'm not necessarily thinking of this as any easier than any other Decker project so I'd hope people should be able to work out how to pull in other resources.

(Also tbh building Decker from source on Linux is not hard and I think even some distros have packages available)

I also noticed you seem to be using Decker 1.44. The exports won't work right unless you're on the latest version, sorry!

Oh the enum slider seems to just show numbers instead of the page types now though :o

Oh, all the buttons for printing it are hidden, haha! Is there a reason you did that?

yessssssssssss correct and good!

Thanks for submitting!

Peanut butter ramen sounds like it could slap

New version! I hadn't experimented with the mirror settings yet, but now I have!

your art is so lovely! I'm so glad you're making more :3

yessssssssss do it!

Yes, Decker 1.65 added a "turn" function that I use to flip the top row of pages. In general it's a good idea to stay up to date.

Ooh nice, I remember you pondering about this and you made it happen! That's rad!

oh wow it me!