[Owasp_cornucopia] tarot sized cards - printerstudio.com
Cam Morris
cam.morris at owasp.org
Thu Jan 23 21:28:44 UTC 2014
Thanks for all the work on this project. In the past I've printed the EOP
game on tarot sized cards on printerstudio.com and played it a few times.
I LOVE the idea of an enterprise webpage edition, so thanks for the effort
to pull this off.
I targeted the tarot sized card because the bigger size would help
accommodate the amount of text. Their sizing guide was very helpful in
figuring out the exact size:
http://www.printerstudio.com/pops/pc-temp-guide.html
I tried a hundred permutations of this, so here are instructions on how I
got it to work. The challenge is the web-page auto-scales to the size of
their card, but this puts the number and right side of the text in the
"cut-zone" meaning it might get cut off. So these are the steps I took to
create the images and resize them:
1. Start with the print ready pdf zip file
- (I've no MS office software so this zip file was very helpful)
2. Create individual images from the pdf using gimp (it doesn't support pdf
import)
a. open the pdf files with gimp - a pdf import wizard will pop up
b. select all images
c. select open pages as "images" instead of "layers"
d. set the height to 2994
- the width will snap to 1794 to preserve the ratio
- (2994 is double 1497, the height of a tarot card from the printing
bleed-area, not the cut edge. It's double because the page complains of
low resolution if I give the exact dimensions)
e. click import, (see attached picture)
e. export each image. This is a bit tedious.
3. Scale each image to tarot size
a. Install gimp-plugin-registry to get "David's Batch Processor"
- on ubuntu: sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
b. open "David's Batch Processor"
- open gimp
- click "Filter -> Batch -> Batch Process
c. add all file on the "input" tab
d. add a prefix or postfix on the "rename" tab, something like "scaled"
e. On the Resize tab do this:
- click enable
- click absolute
- set width = 1794 and height = 2994
- set Fit = "Exact"
(changes ratio to match tarot)
f. click "Start"
4. Resize again with padding (I tried lots of ways to remove this step but
I didn't like the results)
a. clear input files,
b. add "-scaled" images to input
c. change prefix of postfix on the "rename" tab, something like "padded"
d. On the Resize tab do this:
- change width to 1894 x 3094
- change Fit = "Padded"
f. click "Start"
(Step four shows my inability to wield the power of gimp - I feel like a
toddler with a chain saw. I'm not sure why it works. It still isn't quite
right, but its close enough)
5. import the padded-scaled images into printerstudio on a tarot size card
project with custom front and back images.
I hope this helps someone. Thanks again.
- Cam
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