
Garrett Guillotte |
FWIW, my first exercise for settling into InDesign CS6 will be to use its new PDF form building tools to whip out a fillable character sheet. I imagine it'd be a cinch for Paizo to convert their INDDs and have official fillable sheets as well.
I'm not convinced that ID6 will do everything necessary for a fully interactive sheet (ie calculations), but it'll go a long way to streamlining the workflow of cranking out fillable PDF sheets.

thebluecanary |

Garrett Bishop wrote:Try This
Where exactly is it? You just linked to a whole page of stuff.
I was going to point you to mine as well. I could uses all the extra input from the PFS groups as I can get. I want to make this sheet as compatible as possible.

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FWIW, my first exercise for settling into InDesign CS6 will be to use its new PDF form building tools to whip out a fillable character sheet. I imagine it'd be a cinch for Paizo to convert their INDDs and have official fillable sheets as well.
I'm not convinced that ID6 will do everything necessary for a fully interactive sheet (ie calculations), but it'll go a long way to streamlining the workflow of cranking out fillable PDF sheets.
If I imagine correctly, InDesign probably won't do the interactive calculations. That requires Javascript, which one'd need Acrobat Pro for.

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I wrote a Character creation program a couple of years back that I was going to use, but then APG came out and blew my whole concept of automating as much as I could out the window. You can find it on my development blog if you want a look. I have moved jobs so no longer writing in that language it's in, so really haven't had the time or motivation to get back into it to only automate what is needed, and leave the rest to be control by conditions and effects.
The reason I starting developing that was because I had this great fillable/savable (if you had full adobde) PDF called SSA-X2 which was fantasic and based a lot of my ideas from it. But the guy who was developing this went from 3rd to 4th ed, so there was no pathfinder version, and before I could convincing him to make a pathfinder version he stopped all development. You can see a preview of the page here, and really only needs some tweaking like the skills, and CMD/CMB stuff.
Now that fortunately is not the end of the story, he did put up all his source code for someone to continue on with this, and I fortunately grabbed it before his domain shut down, but I haven't had the time or the knock with Abode to modify the page. I've put the notes he had on his page to be able to edit the pdf, so if someone is good with these, let me know and i'll put the files up somewhere for you to download
In order to edit SSA-X2 products, you will need the following software:
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 (or newer)
It is highly recommended you have a dedicated code editor capable of managing JavaScript syntax (as the code editor built into Adobe Acrobat is very rudimentary). Notepad++ is a free tool that suits this role wonderfully.
All dialogs code has been created using Windjack Solutions AcroDialogs plugin for Adobe Acrobat. Though the code (and thus the dialogs themselves) can be modified through JavaScript alone, AcroDialogs makes initial dialog creation and tweaking immensely less tedious. We can't tell you enough how useful this plugin has been, nor how helpful the people at Windjack Solutions were in answering our questions.
Additionally, you will require the following software in order to modify artwork or page layouts (respectively):
Adobe Illustrator CS3 (or newer)
Adobe InDesign CS3 (or newer)
Download
Product Source Files
Each of these archives contains original layouts, JavaScript code files (also available within the product PDF itself), dialog layouts, and sample XML data files, as well as a copy of the standard edition SSA-X2 product.
Shared Resource Archive
In order to modify artwork or edit the page layout, you will also require the SSA-X2 Shared Resources archive. This includes required fonts, graphics, licenses, and other support files that are used across multiple SSA-X2 products. You only need one copy of this archive to work on any and all SSA-X2 products. In order to maintain reference links, decompress this archive into the same top-level folder as the SSA-X2 product folders (above).

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MediaKorento has had some for some time.
Fairly spiffy!

ladenedge |
Hey all. Just a quick bump to mention that I've adjusted Zumii's sheet a bit and made the changes available at:
PathfinderFillable-laden-v2.6.pdf
Hope you find some use for it!

Zumii |

Hey all. Just a quick bump to mention that I've adjusted Zumii's sheet a bit and made the changes available at:
PathfinderFillable-laden-v2.6.pdf
Fixed all of the negative number formats to show a '-' sign.
Removed or thinned the border on all of the fields.
Fixed the formula for Intimidate.
Added individual lines for gear, feats and special abilities (instead of one big text box).
Gear weight is now calculated automatically. Hope you find some use for it!
Awesome work!
This had gotten lost in the ether for me; sorry about that folks.
CptCosmic |
ladenedge wrote:Hey all. Just a quick bump to mention that I've adjusted Zumii's sheet a bit and made the changes available at:
PathfinderFillable-laden-v2.6.pdf
Fixed all of the negative number formats to show a '-' sign.
Removed or thinned the border on all of the fields.
Fixed the formula for Intimidate.
Added individual lines for gear, feats and special abilities (instead of one big text box).
Gear weight is now calculated automatically. Hope you find some use for it!
Awesome work!
This had gotten lost in the ether for me; sorry about that folks.
do you have by chance a version with forms only but no calculations?
best regards

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Hey all -
I know this is probably a dead post by now, but I figured I'd reply to it anyway. As a (very!) new member of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play community, I too was poking around for a form-fillable PDF of the PFS Character Sheet.
I never ran across one that I particularly liked, so I just took the Sheet out of the back of the PFS Guide and made one myself using Acrobat.
It's non-calc (you'll have to do all the math for yourself) but completely form-fillable.
I don't have anywhere to post it, really. But if anyone would be interested in a copy, just hit me up in a PM or something and I'll see towards getting you one.
Cheers!

PzVIE |

Another Thread-Resurrection here:
I just downloaded the Version 2.6 but I can't fill in anything (I get an error message like "something has been modified, get the original version").
I currently use the 2.5 version - the only thing to complain about are the thick borders! So I wonder if there is a working 2.6 around - if so, would somebody please point me in the right direction!
Thanks a lot!

Tumakhunter |

Hey all -
I know this is probably a dead post by now, but I figured I'd reply to it anyway. As a (very!) new member of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play community, I too was poking around for a form-fillable PDF of the PFS Character Sheet.
I never ran across one that I particularly liked, so I just took the Sheet out of the back of the PFS Guide and made one myself using Acrobat.
It's non-calc (you'll have to do all the math for yourself) but completely form-fillable.
I don't have anywhere to post it, really. But if anyone would be interested in a copy, just hit me up in a PM or something and I'll see towards getting you one.
Cheers!
I'd love a copy, actually. You can email me at tumakhunter (at) gmail