My Problem.
Dec. 9th, 2014 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingtycoonAs you know- I've gotten pretty deep into game-design lately.
I'm working on the follow up book on how to run the game - and it's going well! Remind me to tell you about the setting & adventures Agatha has been coming up with. It's pretty neat. Plus there's a bit more going on, I guess, fermenting. Anyhow- I'm pretty happy about my record-sheet designs and here's the source of my current problem.
So I have a rudimentary database - really an excel sheet of MONSTERS - and I'm going to need to make one for a few other kinds of independently generated stuff. There's a lot of new material & so on - and what I'm trying to do is output the fields into the form, making the record sheet reproduce over & over. I need a few variants of this stuff too.
My solution right now - which you see the prototype of above- is to do a mail merge into word -and then make the graphic the watermark on the document. Word's output is troubled on this - and it's not really optimal.
There's no dynamic resizing of text, for example, or proper centering - plus, I'm having to rely in these text boxes that are kind of janky. It's not ideal, is what I'm getting at.
My problem though is that I'm not sure of a better solution - I'd certainly use one if I knew about it, and I'm not incapable of learning something new- so long as it's not ruinously expensive or really excessively sophisticated. So I call out to the ether - what do you think?
I'm working on the follow up book on how to run the game - and it's going well! Remind me to tell you about the setting & adventures Agatha has been coming up with. It's pretty neat. Plus there's a bit more going on, I guess, fermenting. Anyhow- I'm pretty happy about my record-sheet designs and here's the source of my current problem.
So I have a rudimentary database - really an excel sheet of MONSTERS - and I'm going to need to make one for a few other kinds of independently generated stuff. There's a lot of new material & so on - and what I'm trying to do is output the fields into the form, making the record sheet reproduce over & over. I need a few variants of this stuff too.
My solution right now - which you see the prototype of above- is to do a mail merge into word -and then make the graphic the watermark on the document. Word's output is troubled on this - and it's not really optimal.
There's no dynamic resizing of text, for example, or proper centering - plus, I'm having to rely in these text boxes that are kind of janky. It's not ideal, is what I'm getting at.
My problem though is that I'm not sure of a better solution - I'd certainly use one if I knew about it, and I'm not incapable of learning something new- so long as it's not ruinously expensive or really excessively sophisticated. So I call out to the ether - what do you think?
