TTS to PnP Software Advice

[thechordmaster]

Hello bg.ru-ers!

Thanks to you i discovered a cost effective way to play board games. In India the custom duties are super expensive. So this is a good alternative.

I recently discovered TTS Backup Tool.

I have managed to download the files (Race for the galaxy for e.g.)

I am quite comfortable with CorelDraw.

I need your help in quickly arranging these files into a PnP format.

Are there any programs that will automate this?

Any links/tutorials/tips?

Thank you again!

[KoTdeSigN]

Hi. Regarding automation, since all materials do not have a standard, they can not be automatically edited. And if the method helps in the case of one game, the other will not cope. So everything is in the manual The fact that you can work in CorelDRAW is already good. Corel is quite a powerful tool, it can prepare files for printing. If you do not need to change the text, otherwise without a photoshop (or another bitmap editor) it will be difficult. Concerning teaching aids, read the articles on the forum. And if you have any questions, ask more specifically. And welcome to the pnp community

[wil_low]

I used to have 3 perl scripts to process TTS files.

For example, for Apex: Theropod there are:

• card_list.pl - parse json file and composes a cards list divided by decks
• compile.pl - extract tiled cards from jpg files, resize and crop to one of the standard formats using imagemagick or graphickmagic tools, also slight automated image enhancement (does not help much though)
• montage.pl - compose separate card images into 3x3 A4 sheets

Of course, scripts code should be always adapted to a specific game.
Translation is a separate, laborious process.

[thechordmaster]

Can you share your perl files with me?

[wil_low]

TTS_scripts.zip - these are to be used as a reference of how TTS files and Scribus documents can be processed

[thechordmaster]

Thanks for sharing. Will study it and try to understand.

Also do you know of a tutorial for Imagemagick that lets you crop a tts 10X10 image into 100 individual cards?

[wil_low]

sure, I use that command in my scripts

[Commundert]

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[wil_low]

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