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Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Eamon Voss on April 20, 2003, 05:11:51 PM
I hate landscape character sheets.  I hate them with the sort of passion that a FUDGE player will generally reserve for the Rolemaster's charts.  I've tried to make a landscape character sheet for TROS, but my skills at character sheet design have never been good.

Could someone please make a portrait character sheet?  Please?
Title: Idea
Post by: PAD the MAD on April 20, 2003, 06:46:52 PM
Hi there,

If youhave access to a scanner you could scan the existing one, chop out the bits and rearrange them (possibly with a bit of resizing). That might do the trick.

Personally I like the landscape style sheets because they more or less fit around the table leaving the centre clear(ish) for munchies and/or maps.

BFN

Paul
Title: Re: Idea
Post by: Eamon Voss on April 20, 2003, 07:07:16 PM
Quote from: PAD the MADHi there,

If youhave access to a scanner you could scan the existing one, chop out the bits and rearrange them (possibly with a bit of resizing). That might do the trick.

Except I don't have the software to do such things.  :'(
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Mokkurkalfe on April 20, 2003, 07:16:42 PM
I sometimes use Excel for character sheets. Usually very compact, so you can cram an entire character onto one single page.
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Sneaky Git on April 20, 2003, 10:42:22 PM
Quote from: Eamon VossCould someone please make a portrait character sheet?  Please?
I have one, made on MS Word.  But I'm not going to be where I can get at it for about two weeks.  Vacation and all that.  If you can wait...great.  If not, sorry.

I warn you, however, that it is not a pretty character sheet...purely functional.

Chris
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: arxhon on April 21, 2003, 01:55:37 AM
What i did when i modified the character sheet was to take a screenshot and then open the screenshot on Photoshop, then cut and paste bits here and there to get what i wanted.

You can do mostly the same thing with MS paint (included with windows), but the software is kinda junky.
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Eamon Voss on April 21, 2003, 02:08:05 AM
Quote from: arxhonWhat i did when i modified the character sheet was to take a screenshot and then open the screenshot on Photoshop, then cut and paste bits here and there to get what i wanted.

You can do mostly the same thing with MS paint (included with windows), but the software is kinda junky.

Can you supply what you created?  I would be overjoyed.
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: prophet118 on April 21, 2003, 03:05:54 AM
give me about an hour or so, and i'll finish converting the normal sheet to portait

all i am doing it taking the character sheet out of the pdf in picture format (i could edit, but i wont) and printing a new pdf from word....i will upload it to my webspace and post the link
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: arxhon on April 21, 2003, 03:06:00 AM
WEll, it isn't portrait, or whatever the regualr way is called. It's in landscape, or whatever the character sheet is currently presented in, so i'm not sure if you want it.
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Enoch on April 21, 2003, 05:31:33 AM
You know you can take parts of the character sheet and copy them as pics and rearrange them with a program like Power Point or Word (if you don't have publishing software like Pagemaker or Publisher or what not).  I tried to do it, but I didn't want to take the time to finish.

I personally make a new character sheet for each of my new characters anyway.  Made an Ed ripoff (from Cowboy Bebop) and made the character sheet out of a round piece of paper and crayon.  Had a smily motif.

-Joshua
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: Ashren Va'Hale on April 21, 2003, 05:57:19 AM
Ed... thats scary.... how did you do that character? I have to know......
Title: Portrait Character Sheets anyone?
Post by: prophet118 on April 21, 2003, 06:13:13 AM
damn it sure took a long time to post....phew...

anyways, i got it into word, and all set up, just havent turned it into a pdf just yet, i will in the morning though, having a little trouble with my printer drivers