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Jeckel:

--- Quote from: Saedar on May 10, 2010, 07:47:40 PM ---Outstanding work!

It looks like everything is working pretty well. Even cosmetically it looks good. Would there be any way that you could set it up to export as a downloadable pdf? I like working with pdf's because they are easy to copy, transport and such.

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Thanx, I'm currently tweaking a few things on how it looks, replacing some solid colors with better looking background textures and such, but on the whole I like the layout and I'm happy you do to. :)

To PDFs, I total agree that they are great. To generating a PDF file that can be downloaded, the short answer is yes, no, and maybe. Since that doesn't really answer the question, I'll explain below.

Yes. The page linked in the opening post is on a server, so it can create a file for downloading. As to creating a PDF file specifically, see 'maybe' below.

No. The current goal of development is to create a page that anyone can download and use on any computer without the need for a server or the internet. As such, that has greatly restricted what I can do outside of the page itself, primary restricting me from including buttons to allow automatic downloading of the generated output. There is no acceptable way (without opening myself to legal issues or your computer to viruses) around it, a web-page hosted by your computer can not create a new file on your computer because browsers don't allow it.

Maybe. As I said earlier, I also think PDFs are wonderful, so I have intended from the beginning to include support for them. This is going to come by way of a server only version of the page that can take advantage of PHP (a web-page coding language that only works on servers) to generate files for download. Now I don't know if I would specifically be able to generate PDF files for download as I've never looked into automatically generating them on a server, or editing them from a web-page. If nothing else though, the server version should be able to generate postscript files and those are pretty easy to make PDFs from with free applications.

SoulCatcher78:
Very nicely implemented! I hope to punch one up with this tomorrow and see how well the exporting to html works (my brain is too tired right now, even for cut and paste).

aumshantih:
Neato!
If you're looking for someone to help write a javascript to export things into MediaWiki format, let me know.

(My personal gaming wiki is a Mediawiki, and this tool is awesome.)

SoulCatcher78:
Here's my output in html:

--- Quote ---Kim, Chung-hee (Soulcatcher78)
 
 High Concept: The Invisible Man
 Trouble: Lonliness of the long distance runner
 
 Other Aspects: Stranger in a strange land; 'm just a face in the crowd; lways root for the underdogs; Do unto others and then run away
 
 SKILLS (+25)
 
 Alertness: Average (+1)
 Athletics: Fair (+2)
 Conviction: Fair (+2)
 Discipline: Good (+3)
 Endurance: Great (+4)
 Fists: Good (+3)
 Investigation: Average (+1)
 Lore: Fair (+2)
 Rapport: Average (+1)
 Resources: Average (+1)
 Scholarship: Average (+1)
 Stealth: Great (+4)
 
 STUNTS (-1)
 
 Tower of Iron WIll (Discipline) [-1]: Allows use of Discipline during social checks
 
 POWERS (-4)
 
 Channeling [-2]
 Ritual [-2]
 
 
 Total Refresh Cost: -5
 
 
 NOTES
 
 Focus items:
Ring #1 Block 5, specific rote (Hide in Plain Sight-Ocultar nosotros), increase to conviction +3
Pendant Block, specific rote (Hide in Plain Sight-Ocultar nosotros), increase to Discipline +2
Ring #2 Defensive, increase to Conviction +1 when channeling spirit

Rotes:
Hidden "Oculto": Personal veil not requiring a focus. This is his "go-to" rote for stepping out of situations that he feels are getting out of hand.

Hiding in plain sight "Ocultar nosotros": Allows him to veil more than himself but requires him to use a focus item if he has to cover more than 2 people.

 

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And in text form:

--- Quote ---Kim, Chung-hee (Soulcatcher78)

High Concept: The Invisible Man
Trouble: Lonliness of the long distance runner

Other Aspects: Stranger in a strange land; 'm just a face in the crowd; lways root for the underdogs; Do unto others and then run away

SKILLS (+25)

Alertness: Average (+1)
Athletics: Fair (+2)
Conviction: Fair (+2)
Discipline: Good (+3)
Endurance: Great (+4)
Fists: Good (+3)
Investigation: Average (+1)
Lore: Fair (+2)
Rapport: Average (+1)
Resources: Average (+1)
Scholarship: Average (+1)
Stealth: Great (+4)

STUNTS (-1)

Tower of Iron WIll [-1] (Discipline): Allows use of Discipline during social checks

POWERS (-4)

Channeling [-2]
Ritual [-2]

Total Refresh Cost: -5

NOTES

Focus items:
Ring #1 Block 5, specific rote (Hide in Plain Sight-Ocultar nosotros), increase to conviction +3
Pendant Block, specific rote (Hide in Plain Sight-Ocultar nosotros), increase to Discipline +2
Ring #2 Defensive, increase to Conviction +1 when channeling spirit

Rotes:
Hidden "Oculto": Personal veil not requiring a focus. This is his "go-to" rote for stepping out of situations that he feels are getting out of hand.

Hiding in plain sight "Ocultar nosotros": Allows him to veil more than himself but requires him to use a focus item if he has to cover more than 2 people.

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Have you considered putting a section in for Rotes or would it be easier to use the "stunts" section for that?

Jeckel:

--- Quote from: aumshantih on May 11, 2010, 05:42:21 PM ---Neato!
If you're looking for someone to help write a javascript to export things into MediaWiki format, let me know.

(My personal gaming wiki is a Mediawiki, and this tool is awesome.)
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Hmm, I hadn't thought about exporting to any wiki formats, but I will keep your offer in mind. :)

--- Quote from: SoulCatcher78 on May 11, 2010, 07:50:30 PM ---Here's my output in html:
And in text form:
Have you considered putting a section in for Rotes or would it be easier to use the "stunts" section for that?
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Yep, the plan is to have, Specializations, Rote Spells, Focus Items, and Enchanted Items as their own Sections. I'm currently doing some tests with different ways to implement them.

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Since I'm already posting, here is an update on work toward version 3 Alpha.

I've added the Stress Section in. I've replaced several of the various background colors with simple textures.

Also, I've added a button that will fill the Worksheet with Harry Dresden's character sheet from the source books.

Lastly, as shown in SoulCatcher78's posted HTML output, there was an error and line-breaks weren't being preserved in fields that could have multiple lines. This has already been fixed in the next version.

That's where I'm at as of today. I'm not sure what else, if anything, will be included before I release v3 Alpha, but either way I am going to try and get this new version up by this weekend if only for the HTML output fix.

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