HQ Cardgen M15/8th/Pre8th/Tokens/Emblem (Updated 2018/01/29)

[ahkren]

generatePages is unfortunately not 100% at the moment, PreM15 cards are 736x1050 at 315dpi, M15 cards are 720x1020 at 300dpi. Generate pages doesn't generate M15 cards at the right size. Until I can unify the sizes, this is going to be an ongoing issue.

[shelldell]

No problem, I will work around it for now.

[ahkren]

Sorry for the lack of updates, free time to work on this has been stretched a bit thin in the last few weeks. Hoping to have a new release by the end of the month though.

[ahkren]

New version posted, now with Emblems!

[shelldell]

Thanks for the update, ahkren, the 315 dpi standardization is a big improvement and the borders are all the same size now.

However, I'm not sure if this is quite the correct approach... when I print out a sheet of generated pre-M15 cards and M15+ cards, ignore border thickness, and just look at internal area next to real cards, the pre-M15 cards are ~1.8% larger. It sounds small but it's enough of a difference that I'll still generate and print them at different settings for now.

I think the difference is that real M15+ cards have a thinner border / slightly larger interior print area compared to pre-M15 cards (I can get exact measurements with calipers if that's helpful!), while cardgen outputs them all at the same size. Take care, and thanks again.

[ahkren]

I'll have an updated version posted by early/mid next week. Will have SOI in all it's glory.

[ahkren]

Ran into a could of snags, should be done in a day or 2.

[ahkren]

New version uploaded.

[Sunset]

Hey, been lurking for a while here, figured it was time for me to finally post. First off, thank you so so much for taking over this project.

So, the way I've been using this is to generate versions of every set containing original cards with M15-style frames and everything. I've been using this since 9.0.08, making changes to fix small errors as I see them, and porting those to new versions as I download them. Most of these are fixes to little things like missing/wrong watermarks, land frames, other weird frames, missing cards from the database, and the like. I also made a few changes to make the M15 renderer handle certain cards from older sets better (including ZEN full-art lands and PLC timeshifted cards, which crash on the current M15 renderer, and 3-ability planeswalkers which always use the 8ED renderer even when it's supposed to be disabled). I've also made some changes to make this baby work on Linux and written .mwDeck decklists for a bunch of the newer sets that aren't in the decks folder (and modified many of the existing ones to handle alternate art better). Anyway, I figure it's time I give back to the community, so when I download 9.0.14, I'm going to document the changes I've made from vanilla as I port them to 9.0.14 and list them here.

Anyway, let me know if my changes would be welcome, and I'll post them up here.

[ahkren]

@Sunset, changes and help are most welcome and encouraged. PM me if you want access to the beta git so we can have changes working for everyone.

[ahkren]

Updated cards.csv attached, fixes the bugs that cropped up in Planeswalker text.

[shelldell]

As always, thank you for the updates. The sizing of the pre vs post M15 cards looks great.

One bug report for 9.0.14: I'm getting an odd extra edge poking out on some M15 cards. Borders currently set to 5, no gap between cards.

[ahkren]

@shelldell I'll look into it, see what I can find.

[ahkren]

The offset I put is causing that. ImageWriter.php line 505 & 506

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$offsetX = -9;
$offsetY = -11;

comment them out and they will move back to center but retain the same size.

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//$offsetX = -9;
//$offsetY = -11;

[shelldell]

I don't see that at line 505/506 in 9.0.14:

But I did see those parameters at lines 440/441:

After commenting out those offset params on line 440/441 the output pages looked like this: