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A zine workbench: write pages as a script, with exact-odds tables, picture recipes, clay creatures and print-ready spreads.
A zine workbench. A zine is pages; a page holds text, frames and layers. Write it as a script, change anything, and it re-runs into a printable spread.
- Tables with exact odds: d6, d66 and nested tables, decks that do not repeat, with the probability of every branch worked out.
- Pictures are recipes: a source and a list of steps (duotone, threshold, dithers, halftone, woodcut) that run as jobs on lanes.
- Clay creatures, collage and library cuts: bestiaries, sticker sheets, glitch collages and museum plates.
- Ornaments: repeat() borders, pattern() wallpapers and rosettes.
- Edit by hand: drag things on the spread, then promote the edit back into the script. Draw on the page in the DS view.
- Print: spreads, pages and imposed sheets, with xerox and riso looks; save a page as PNG or SVG.
More than forty examples come with it, from a first zine to The Doomland, The Pink Vitrine, The Night Market of Ulan Tor, a comic about a werm who wanted a hat, and a mini-8 folded from one sheet.
