New Program
Posted: 04 Nov 2010, 13:43
Programs like these are only as useful as they are updated. While I am deeply grateful for all the work done on this program over the years, it seems that support has dwindled. In part, the developers of magic have been making card's more and more varied, making tasks like this program more difficult to keep up with. Perhaps it's time to make a more fool proof program that doesn't require lengthy updates.
I propose a parser that merely takes a deck file and uses the set abbreviation with the card name to search the pics directory to find, resize and tile full art card images onto a printable page. This approach wont require updates and will produce good cards when used in conjunction with the high quality pics available through the pics forum on this site. The information needed to generate pages would be limited to only the last couple sections of the current config file (spacing, borders, art directory, etc..).
Sadly I'm not savvy enough to do this on my own, but perhaps with some direction I could. The hardest trick is resizing every image to be the same resolution.
P.S. I don't mean this thread as any insult to the effort that you've put forth so far. I am merely proposing this as a means for some of us more veracious users to gain access to the latest releases without the need to pester for updates.
P.P.S. Potentially this could be incorporated into the current card generator, so that any unrecognized set defaults to searching the set directory for the full art instead of erroring out. This could also be enabled for mechanics that are not currently supported or have less than optimal results (like levelers, planeswalkers {cropped art being stretched to full card size} and Eldrazi {see through}) through the config file.
I propose a parser that merely takes a deck file and uses the set abbreviation with the card name to search the pics directory to find, resize and tile full art card images onto a printable page. This approach wont require updates and will produce good cards when used in conjunction with the high quality pics available through the pics forum on this site. The information needed to generate pages would be limited to only the last couple sections of the current config file (spacing, borders, art directory, etc..).
Sadly I'm not savvy enough to do this on my own, but perhaps with some direction I could. The hardest trick is resizing every image to be the same resolution.
P.S. I don't mean this thread as any insult to the effort that you've put forth so far. I am merely proposing this as a means for some of us more veracious users to gain access to the latest releases without the need to pester for updates.
P.P.S. Potentially this could be incorporated into the current card generator, so that any unrecognized set defaults to searching the set directory for the full art instead of erroring out. This could also be enabled for mechanics that are not currently supported or have less than optimal results (like levelers, planeswalkers {cropped art being stretched to full card size} and Eldrazi {see through}) through the config file.