Adjusting PDFs to regulation card size


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Do you guys have a specific program you use or what? How do you present the scenarios, adventure paths, etc to your characters? I've tried adjusting them down but they come out nearly unreadable when shrunk.

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DM_Kumo Gekkou wrote:
Do you guys have a specific program you use or what? How do you present the scenarios, adventure paths, etc to your characters? I've tried adjusting them down but they come out nearly unreadable when shrunk.

I don't shrink them down, I just print them out on regular paper. That's how they're intended to be used (that is, they aren't intended to be shrunk down to card size).

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I've seen people present them on an iPad. Our ACG VL has a binder full of print outs. They really can't be done on regulation card size because they simply have too much information on them!


Saddest of days. I have a binder full of them all as well, I was just hoping I could do something less table consuming than laying out the full sheet.

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I use BCW top-loaders (From Amazon here) which are similar to top-loaders for trading cards but 8.5 x 11 sized (for photos, etc.). So I print them on a color printer and slide them into the top-loader and bring them to the sessions.

I also store them on my iPad just in case. Shrinking them down and/or editing them for size really isn't advised. One of the things Tanis mentioned up front is that with a full page, they could provide more story and other text than they could with just a card.

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For what it's worth, I am working on getting the proxy cards available in regulation card size, so you can sleeve the Obligatory Kraken or whatever and actually put it into play.


Tanis O'Connor wrote:
For what it's worth, I am working on getting the proxy cards available in regulation card size, so you can sleeve the Obligatory Kraken or whatever and actually put it into play.

That sounds wonderful!

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Tanis O'Connor wrote:
For what it's worth, I am working on getting the proxy cards available in regulation card size, so you can sleeve the Obligatory Kraken or whatever and actually put it into play.

What I've done with the Kraken and the Dinosaurs, Onwu Azu and the ships, etc. is made an additional sheet in the PDF with just the cards so that I could print and cut them out. Slip them in with a proxy card and into a sleeve. I may try to simply put them on heavier stock paper and sleeve them. But it works and the groups like it.

(I used Adobe Acrobat to create a proxy file of such cards including duplicates of henchmen.)


Tanis O'Connor wrote:
For what it's worth, I am working on getting the proxy cards available in regulation card size, so you can sleeve the Obligatory Kraken or whatever and actually put it into play.

Speaking of making the custom cards in OP more playable, with the progress on the errata decks coming along, has it been considered at all to maybe start making OP Season packs of cards after each season ends? Custom DriveThruCards packs with enough henchmen, villains, ships, loot, etc. to play the season without proxies (and to have a real Councilor’s Ring or other loot cards to use in the following season)?

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It's definitely an idea that has occurred to us. We'll see what happens. :)

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