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Using Mike Schley symbols
I don't think there is currently, although some do seem to appear in some of the catalogues - just not all. It is irritating.
Don't know if it will help, but this is my own list for what the Mike Schley dungeon (only) symbols are:
- Monthly 1 = Woodcutter
- Monthly 2 = Smithy
- Monthly 3 = Market
- Monthly 4 = Necromancer
- Monthly 5 = Temple
- Monthly 6 = Dragon Lair
- Monthly 7 = Prison
- Monthly 8 = Siege
- Monthly 9 = Stables
- Monthly 10 = Summoner
- Monthly 11 = Fungal
- Monthly 12 = Up and Down
- Monthly 13 = Thrones
- Monthly 14 = Man of Science
- Monthly 15 = Graveyard
Of course, you still need to remember what the names mean...
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Printing maps from PDF?
Just following-up here on my earlier comments re the free LibreOffice program "Draw", as I finally got around to installing and doing some basic testing of it earlier today, so can confirm it will indeed open MS Publisher files OK. Not sure it has all the same functionality as yet - as usual, it takes forever to find where the programmers have hidden the features I'm most likely to use regularly - but it does open files with finished images, Publisher-drawn diagrams and photos, and they're all there. The only thing I did notice is that a couple of photos I'd resized after cropping in Publisher had become a little distorted, although resizing by-eye corrected their appearance at the expense of enlarging the images, which would then need resizing to fit the text again. I'd guess that would probably work better if I'd cropped and resized the image in Draw, though I hadn't time to check that would work. Hopefully, this may assist anyone hunting around for an MS Publisher substitute when the program's withdrawn by Microsoft next month.
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Dungeon Level Symbols
Naturally ๐๐ฒ!
Things that immediately occur in this regard include having symbols prepared as Sue did in Marine Dungeons 2 as Colour 6 shapes for use as cut-outs, showing her metallic textures beneath as inlaid floors - which would of course allow any other underlying inlay texture to be used as well - such as different coloured stone or wood.
Also, having the symbols available as outlines using the Solid 10 bitmap fill, so they can be used immediately to produce low-relief indented or inscribed designs, as Remy showed back in 2020 in this blog post, but without needing to explode the symbols first.
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New Encounter sites along the Shattered Road
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New PF Blog Post, "10 Quick CC3+ tips", by Remy Monsen
Just posted on the PF Blog yesterday, this is a new, slightly eclectic, list of useful options when mapping with CC3+, by our own resident expert Remy Monsen. While the Blog posts are always worth seeing, this is one that's worth printing a PDF version of for future use, I think.
Some of the ten tips will likely be familiar, others things you know about but can never remember the times they're needed (like how to reset the "exporting in fewer passes" thing, item three on this list, and which I always end up scrabbling around trying to recall where I put the note as to what command has to be used to reset this, after a rare glitch that's reset it to the smaller amount!). And others may be new to you - OK, me, then ๐ (looking at you, Quick Move)!