General Zines and Hobby Chat

A conversation about creating physical zines at home, tools, tips, and tricks.
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Zonware
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General Zines and Hobby Chat

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Hey! This is the very first post on Zonboards, specifically just testing out everything and seeing if this works. I'd love to share some of my Zine creation tools, and physical hobby stuff to help folks out.

End test.
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Elledritch
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And this is the first reply to the very first post on the Zonboards, so you know that things worked out as expected.
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Zonware
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Actually incredible that this works. I know this is like, the simplest thing you can do on the internet but mannnnnn its cool.
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Elledritch
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Hey, it's pretty cool and does feel really good when you build something yourself!
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Here's a post about a zine! A friend made a gazetteer for an OSE game and I zine-ified it :mrgreen:

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I have been figuring out that when my printer does doubled-sided, I need to do short flip and it prints the "cover" as the last page. Does anyone else's printer do this?

P.s. hoping that the image worked!!

Edit: the image didn't really work. I tried to use a sharing link from my Google photos. You can click it and see but it doesn't embedd :<
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Elledritch
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twopercentwilk wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 2:31 am Here's a post about a zine! A friend made a gazetteer for an OSE game and I zine-ified it :mrgreen:

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I have been figuring out that when my printer does doubled-sided, I need to do short flip and it prints the "cover" as the last page. Does anyone else's printer do this?

P.s. hoping that the image worked!!

Edit: the image didn't really work. I tried to use a sharing link from my Google photos. You can click it and see but it doesn't embedd :<
Was the image you linked too big? I wonder if there's a size limit like there was for the avatars.
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Zonware
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How about this for a test! Max size was 256kb haha

(Its a rock, can you see the rock?)
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twopercentwilk
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There's definitely a size limit for uploading at attaching images, but there's also the image field, in text, that looks for a url? I was hoping it would embed the image in the text body, but it didn't work for a sharing link to a Google photos. I'm going to test with an image from Zonware to see how it works

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Edit: looks like it had to do with the image link!
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Zonware
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Eyy! Yeah looks like you have to upload and "place inline"
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I got accepted to table at a Zinefest! Any tips on how to have a good time? I'm not so concerned about making $ or
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