[Owasp_cornucopia] tarot sized cards - printerstudio.com

Fri Jan 24 17:10:53 UTC 2014

Cam

Great, thanks for sharing this information and the steps you took. I
have added a link from the project wiki's "Cards" tab to the message
details

   https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopia#tab=Cards

and your name here:

   https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopia#tab=Acknowledgements

Sorry about using Word... the wiki doesn't support .otf but I could
just have done a Zip I suppose.

Regards

Colin

On 23 January 2014 21:28, Cam Morris <cam.morris at owasp.org> wrote:
> 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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