MapTool 1.3 Development Build 10

thelevitator · Post by **thelevitator** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:01 pm

Just playing around, I converted the .htm to a .pdf with PrimoPDF, and then converted the .pdf to a .jpg with Paint.Net. It works, but that's quite a few steps to create the sheets. I know this is a new feature, so I'm curious what the plan for developing this part of Maptools might be?

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:12 pm

Couldnt you just take a screenshot of the html page and save it in any art program?

Post by **dorpond** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:21 pm

My point exactly why we should integrate the "Trevor-Snap" in MT for portraits and character sheets. No conversions needed.

thelevitator · Post by **thelevitator** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:41 pm

Hey, that's a good idea Snikle! My players are going to flip with the new portrait popup!

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:01 pm

dorpond wrote:"Trevor-Snap"

LOL I like that! Almost sounds like a dance...

RPMiller · Post by **RPMiller** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:05 pm

thelevitator wrote:Is the Character Sheet window .jpg only? I was wondering if it will ever be able to accept .htm files too. DM Genie's character sheets are in .htm format. In the meantime, what's the simplest way to convert .htm files to .jpg files?

I just wanted to add that if you make html pages as an acceptable format you will have all the Hero gamers jumping for joy and probably switching to MT from ORPG (assuming the die formats and initiative get added in some day). Most of us Hero gamers use Hero Designer to make our characters. It is a Java application with the ability to export characters to pretty much any format that is "markup-able" such as HTML and RTF. I've been trying to create a PDF export, but I don't understand the structure well enough to pull it off with any real success.

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:59 pm

You might be interested in this then:

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

thelevitator · Post by **thelevitator** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:06 pm

Ahhhh thanks for the reminder Dracorat!! That program was mentioned here or on another gaming forum a while back and I couldn't remember the name of it. Looks like I've got some work ahead of me for this Sunday's session!

RPMiller · Post by **RPMiller** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:14 pm

Dracorat wrote:You might be interested in this then:

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Was this a reply to me? If so, thanks, but I already own Adobe Acrobat. My statement above regarding PDF was I'm trying to create the PDF from scratch via its markup language. I can create a basic PDF via the codes, but when I get to 2 pages, I can't get the document tree to work right.

If it wasn't... disregard the above ramblings of the crazy person.

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:24 pm

It was - I had no idea how progressed you were.

For those wanting a straight HTML to Image converter, the following installs a printer that will save pretty much anything to an image:
http://www.print-driver.com/download/

I recommend you change the template file for whatever program creates your HTML output and at the very end put a bunch of line breaks (BR tags) and then the word "end", so that the watermark doesn't overwrite text you are trying to read.

Here is an example using a partially completed project of mine as the HTML document:
http://keithratliff.com/img/exampleout.png

RPMiller · Post by **RPMiller** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:36 pm

Dracorat wrote:It was - I had no idea how progressed you were.

Progressed?

For those wanting a straight HTML to Image converter, the following installs a printer that will save pretty much anything to an image:
http://www.print-driver.com/download/

Hey that is pretty slick! Thanks for the linkage!

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:36 pm

Yeah, I'd having the basic architecture in place and writing the raw code pretty progressed.

Now you just gotta work out the kinks

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:38 pm

RPMiller wrote: Hey that is pretty slick! Thanks for the linkage!

No problem (although I should have done my example image at a lower DPI - all that is configurable in the printer properties).

RPMiller · Post by **RPMiller** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:55 pm

Dracorat wrote:Yeah, I'd having the basic architecture in place and writing the raw code pretty progressed.

Now you just gotta work out the kinks

You should see what I can do with RTF coding...

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:43 pm

I'm an all XML XSL HTML XHTML Javascript AJAX kinda guy.

I was the author of the "Rat's character sheet" for eTools which some day I plan on migrating to PCGen.