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  • Adding Custom Icons to a Custom Button

    Also note that you need your button image in four resolutions, compass.bmp, compass24.bmp, compass32.bmp, compass48.bmp. (image sizes should be 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48).
    roflo1
  • How Can I Draw Real-World Places in Campaign Cartographer?

    Unfortunately, the Microsoft Print to PDF printer driver is pretty basic, so you can't control much when using that one.

    But the general way to make thing the correct size for print is to rely on scaling, not margins. In the print dialog, switch to scale factor instead of fir to page, and make sure scaling is correctly set up. If your drawing is properly scaled from the outset, you should be able to calculate this rather easily, but if not, it may require some trial and error. You can also use the Distance command from the info menu to measure distances in your map, such as the width, to properly calculate the scale needed.

    Obviously also set the tiling option to the desired value, adding overlap if desired.

    This should ensure that your drawing end up the right size in the PDF, and you should then be able to print the document from the pdf using the the documents internal margins without the printer adding any more. You might need to print it with pdf software that allows more control over the printing process so that the scale of the document can be kept intact, like adobe reader to do that, I am not sure the built in pdf-viewer in windows handles that properly.

    Loopysue
  • Upgrading old CC2 maps

    The whole world file has turned out rather nicely, although I was unable to change the line widths successfully. When I tried to do this, the shapes turned into filled lines.

    Yea, you can't just change line widths of polygons. A polygon is filled as long as it is set to line with 0, otherwise it becomes a hollow shape with the outline the size of the line width. To have a thick outline on a polygon, it needs to be a separate entity. It is quite possible your polys already have those, if so, be sure to only select the outline and not both the poly and the outline when changing width.


    As for the colors in the maps, it looks like the original maps was made using a different color palette. In the CC2 days, you could have a different palette by having the palette stored as fcw32.pal in your CC2 installation directory, and all maps would then use that palette instead. So you probably need to go see if you can find that original pal file somewhere.

    Since that file affected all maps loaded, we don't usually do that any more. These days, you can attach a palette to a drawing, and the drawing will use the embedded palette instead of the default one, which is what you should be doing to these maps, but you'll need to find the old palette if you wish to know the exact colors used, otherwise you just have to guess and experiment.



    ThorfMarja Erwin
  • Project Spectrum - Part 2

    Those look absolutely stunning

    Loopysue
  • Issues with CA41, "Abstract Maps" annual style

    I don't think the edit option works on lines, only on polygons.

    The color is the view window color. You can change it from the View menu

    Loopysue
  • Welcome to the Updated Forum

    It's been deleted. Give me a word if you still have problems editing your profile, the forum may cache something that needs cleaning.

    JimP
  • Welcome to the Updated Forum

    No options like that are available for this forum software unfortunately, neither by default or as a plugin, so I wouldn't be able to do that without resorting to writing the plugin myself.

    The avatar does show a little larger for the first post in the discussion, and of course even larger on your profile page.

    mike robel
  • Is this an Issue with SS5?

    Seems to be an oversight in the template. I'll mention it to ProFantasy to look into.

    Loopysue
  • September Annual: City Cliffs

    These looks great. Can't wait to find a good time and opportunity to play with them.

    Loopysue
  • Welcome to the Updated Forum

    Doesn't the browser save that per subdomain? Looked at my saved passwords, and I have one for www.profantasy.com, and one for forum.profantasy.com.

    SkidAce