Dragon Magazine Archive source code


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A few years ago, I bought the Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROMs. Now, this product seems forgotten.

Would it possible for you to send me the computer source code for it so I could make some improvements to the program?

I'm an expert programmer and everybody who bought the product would doubtlessly appreciate it if I could get the source code and make some improvements.

I e-mailed Wizards and they responded: "Dragon magazine is not owned and operated by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publishing now own Dragon magazine and dungeon magazine. They can be contacted at Paizopublishing.com."

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dhoward wrote:
I e-mailed Wizards and they responded: "Dragon magazine is not owned and operated by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publishing now own Dragon magazine and dungeon magazine. They can be contacted at Paizopublishing.com."

Well I don't know about any of your other questions, but that answer you received is oddly incorrect. Wizards of the Coast still owns Dragon and Dungeon. Paizo merely licenses them. ::shrug::


I provided a link to the discussion here to Wizards and repeated my question. They responded:

"We do not offer support on any Dungeon magazine or Dragon magazine concern. Paizo would be responsible for that. It is possible that this particular program you're referring to fell through the crack in the transition so that neither of us has access to it anymore. Regardless, for all Dragon magazine concerns, you would need to contact Paizo. Sorry for the confusion and run around."


I have the Dragon Magazine Archive Cds. Recently I bought a new Dell computer and installed the Archives on it. However it won't let me print the articles out! It says it doesn't recognize my printer (or something along those lines). I have a Dell Photo AIO Printer 922. Is there a patch or something that I can download that will allow me to print articles on my new computer?


Try doing this: load one of the PDF files into acrobat reader, then try printing it from there (just to see if this works). If not, the problem is probably with your computer / printer set-up, not the software.

As for the source code, it's basically just a custom PDF viewer. Try searching for an open source equivalent to acrobat. This might be a problem, since Adobe owns the rights to the PDF format: they get licensing fees from companies who develop tools to read/write their format.


DMR wrote:

Try doing this: load one of the PDF files into acrobat reader, then try printing it from there (just to see if this works). If not, the problem is probably with your computer / printer set-up, not the software.

As for the source code, it's basically just a custom PDF viewer. Try searching for an open source equivalent to acrobat. This might be a problem, since Adobe owns the rights to the PDF format: they get licensing fees from companies who develop tools to read/write their format.

You can search through a directory of PDF files with Adobe Reader.


You should be able to print the pdf's....those of us on Macs had to do it this way anyway.... if I want to read an issue I just stick the disk in and select the proper pdf with the Finder. I set my Mac to open pdf's with Preview, as it's faster loading than acrobat, but you should be able to do the same thing with a Windows machine (except you would be using Acrobat to view).

-Dave


dhoward wrote:

A few years ago, I bought the Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROMs. Now, this product seems forgotten.

Would it possible for you to send me the computer source code for it so I could make some improvements to the program?

I'm an expert programmer and everybody who bought the product would doubtlessly appreciate it if I could get the source code and make some improvements.

I e-mailed Wizards and they responded: "Dragon magazine is not owned and operated by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publishing now own Dragon magazine and dungeon magazine. They can be contacted at Paizopublishing.com."

Now, from what I heard, you'd be lucky! The reason as far as I am aware that the Dragon Archive is not supported by anyone is that when the CD was released, Wizards never renegotiated with individual authors to re-use their stuff! I believe that Wizards got in a lot of trouble for this, and quickly stopped selling the CD - I therefore doubt that they will hand over the source code!


You can also open the cd from "my computer" and simply copy the files onto your hard drive and look at them that way.

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