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C3G PDF Generator-Public
- Thread starter Snappleman
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And let me echo A3n in saying - this guy has done (and continues to do) an incredible amount behind the scenes, so give him any rep you can! 
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
Your wish is my command. There's now a "Generate Reverse PDF" button which will create all the backs to the cards. I've checked the dimensions and they match the reverse dimensions of the regular cards, but I haven't actually tested it yet. Anyone want to be a guinea pig?
I've also introduced a slight delay between caching the images which should help with large PDFs and I've also fixed a couple exceptions which might be causing some of the cards not to show up.
Oh and make sure you put the paper back into the printer the correct way. Flip it over so that the top is still the top and not the other way around... if that makes any sense.
Scapemage
From less than zero to Hero!
In that case, try creating multiple smaller PDFs of 4 or 5 pages.
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
It's very hard for me to figure out what's going on with the 10 page PDFs as I don't seem to have this problem. You could try sending me the log file (Help Menu -> log file).
You are correct about those 6 units. I've added those 6 to the tool as well as Spoiler and Lockheed which someone else had pointed out. These public releases are harder to keep track of. I'll have to monitor them a bit more.
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
I will add that to my list of to-dos for the next update. Thanks!
No problem, thank you for this awesome resource. I just printed out 24 cards on 8 pages today as a result. In the past those same 24 cards would have been on 12 pages. Printed on Card Stock, 1 sided in color, was $0.66 per page. So only $0.22 a card if you are happy with a plain white backing. I go the double sided route though so it was $0.49 per page more for me but still a great deal. So it looks like you saved me [(.66+.49)*4=] $4.60 today. I just wish I had this resource 6 months ago as I've printed out a ton a cards this year. I did let my friend know about it today though as he has been looking at printing out some cards for some of his figures (he has just been using mine) and wants/needs to keep the costs down. At $0.22 a card now he might just end up going a bit crazy with printing the next few months.
I did come across a problem though when looking through the cards I printed off today. Just noticed that my Mirror Master card only had one mirror marker, the one with the face. The one without the face is no where to be found. Not a big deal as I'll just print the two markers off on my home computer. I usually print things like glyphs off at home anyway as they really don't need to be on card stock and high gloss prints. I thought I would mention it though. My Zemo card had all 5 MoE markers, and Red Hulk had all 3 heat markers so it does not appear to be a wide spread issue, just localized to Mirror Master. Also it printed off the one small circle marker, which is what I wanted anyway, but their is also a larger glyph sized marker option for that card that someone else might prefer.
If the C3V guys are really interested and they have someone who wants to run it, I bet Snappleman would probably be willing to share the basic tech involved in it. I don't want him to get overwhelmed by having to add all the C3V stuff too (especially when he has so many other top secret projects. ;-) ).
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
I love what you're doing there. Making me sound like some mad scientist. Keep it up!
If someone from the C3V wants to talk to me about the making a C3V version of the generator, I'd definitely be more than happy to walk them through the steps to get there. Basically, we just need a C3V spreadsheet with the unit names and all the PDFs need to be converted to PNGs with transparent backgrounds. No sweat.
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
Nah, you're too upbeat. Maybe a Glad Scientist.
How about a Rad Scientist? That was bad, I know. I have some Scottish background, maybe a Plaid Scientist?
Can you make the app work for the released stuff from a spreadsheet also so any of us with server access can just make the updates to the cards as required & free you up for other things. Then you could just have an option that changes the URL where the app looks to get the list & cards from.
Snappleman
C3G's Plaid Scientist
puzzlemonkey
New member
Uncle Sam still appears to be unavailable.
Ooh, me likey! I haven't tested the printout yet, but it looks good so far. I'll print some tests on July 20th. But this made me think of another idea: could the program be made to reverse it such that you could print two sided cards with comic art on one side and mini art on the back?
