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4 years ago ::
Jan 31, 2009 - 7:00AM
#51
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I can print Landscape, but only under the following conditions.
1. Must be 'Print to PDF' using one of various PDF Packages.
2. Preferences set to Landscape in PDF Printer, before launching CB
3. Launch CB. Change Layout to Landscape. Works fine. All pages including Power Cards are fine.
If I dont do the above steps, or try printing directly to a printer in Landscape, it goes all compressed or stretched.
Running Vista Ultimate
Using Cute PDF Writer
Confirmed using doPDF. If you set the printer preferences to "Landscape" before you start the Character Builder, you can get it to print without stretching/compressing. However, if you try after, it distorts the page.
I can't get the margins to adjust properly (even using the workaround), but that's a different matter.
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4 years ago ::
Jan 31, 2009 - 7:22AM
#52
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Date Joined:
Jan 20, 2009
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I found another problem. Page numbers are printed on power cards pages even when I turn that feature off. The page numbers are not printed on the character sheet pages. So it looks like whatever code is used to generate the power cards is ignoring that option.
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4 years ago ::
Jan 31, 2009 - 10:49AM
#53
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Date Joined:
Jan 23, 2009
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Confirmed using doPDF. If you set the printer preferences to "Landscape" before you start the Character Builder, you can get it to print without stretching/compressing. However, if you try after, it distorts the page.
I can't get the margins to adjust properly (even using the workaround), but that's a different matter.
I was actually able to print directly to the printer in landscape with all pages coming out correctly. I did have to set the printer to landscape BEFORE opening CB for this to work though.
The only weird thing is that the printer pulls through a extra page after the sheets are done and the page will occasionally have stretched/compressed printing on it. But I can deal with a wasted sheet of paper.
XP w/SP3 on a Brother 5250DN laser printer.
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4 years ago ::
Jan 31, 2009 - 11:21AM
#54
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Date Joined:
Jan 20, 2009
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The switch-to-landscape-before-starting-cb trick works for me, but it's a moot a point. The resulting page still has the cards printed along the edge of the paper, which my printer can't handle.
I think it's ridiculous that printing, which is a key part of this software, is so broken. I have no intention of subscribing to D&D Insider until these problems are all fixed. WOTC should admit that they're still beta-testing this software, because there's no way this software passed any decent QA process. I've been developing software for 20 years, so I know what QA looks like, and it doesn't look like this.
This software needs to offer much more control over the printing options than it does. I have a small photo printer that can print 4x6 prints. I should be able to print two 4x3 cards per page on it. My regular printer doesn't support printing to the edge of the paper, but this photo printer does, and so I want to use it.
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4 years ago ::
Jan 31, 2009 - 2:44PM
#55
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Date Joined:
Jan 31, 2009
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I'm having quite a bit of troble with the printing. First, I am unable to change the printing to portrait - landscape seems to be the default. The problem is that the landscape version is very distorted, stretched to fit the page. It is quite ugly, bordering on unreadable, as the text is streched too. I'm rather confused.
Yes, I tried changing the setting in CB, which does nothing at all, and of course setting the printer to portrait - which really makes things go weird, as the page will stil be printed as if it's in landscape mode, but on a portrait page, so there's substantical cut-off both to the left and at the bottom.
I think the CB is a fantastic idea and very well executed, I hope the printing will be fixed soon so that I can actually get uable character sheets from this.
I'm using Windows Vista (Norwegian version) and an Epson Workforce 600 printer.
Oh, and a small bug: the text in the power card for Dragon Breath is set at font size 30 or thereabouts, resulting is a pretty useless power card where the deskription text only has room for the word "Attack:", with no room for anything more.
Also, my character portrait is not "ported over" from the core application, it seems to work fine in the CB itself, but is not included in the character sheet preview thingie. Tried with both jpeg, a PNG and the default portrait.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 01, 2009 - 7:15PM
#56
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Date Joined:
Aug 17, 2007
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When making a Beastmaster Ranger, it would be great if the companion card printed on the same sheet as the power cards (even better if it was more like the "stats" card style wise). As it is, a whole sheet of paper is wasted for one small card-sized stat block.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 03, 2009 - 6:02AM
#57
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Date Joined:
Jun 12, 2008
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No matte what I do the char sheet does not contain the character portrait. Is it only me or a general problem?
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4 years ago ::
Feb 03, 2009 - 6:57AM
#58
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Date Joined:
Jan 20, 2009
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No matte what I do the char sheet does not contain the character portrait. Is it only me or a general problem?
That happens to me as well. Did you create your character using the Beta version of CB?
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4 years ago ::
Feb 03, 2009 - 7:24AM
#59
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Date Joined:
Mar 17, 2001
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No matte what I do the char sheet does not contain the character portrait. Is it only me or a general problem?
Same happens here, too. It seems the algorithms they use to scale things and adjust font size only work correct on US Letter format. It may also be a .NET problem...
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4 years ago ::
Feb 03, 2009 - 9:28AM
#60
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Date Joined:
Jun 29, 2008
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Same happens here, too. It seems the algorithms they use to scale things and adjust font size only work correct on US Letter format. It may also be a .NET problem...
Dont know if it helps you... but I have the same problem... to get it to work I try a lot of different pictures I have and try to pane the character in the sheet (most times it doesnt work) When I finally found one that is draggable, I center the image in the portrait box. Then I can go and choose whatever portrait I want and it will display nice. Just dont drag or zoom the picture or you will destroy it again.
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