Best Practice: Online Chronicle Sheets

[Scosu PFS]

Hi!

What is the Best Practice / How To for doing Chronicle Sheets for the online games?  And doing them WELL?

Process One:  Print the Chronicle sheet from the PDF.  Scan the Chronicle sheet in as a Bitmap BMP.  Bring that BMP into a new Microsoft/Office/Word document with super slim margins.  Maximise the BMP image to as large as you can while fitting on one standard page.  Insert TEXT BOXES to all the spaces you will by typing into.  SAVE THIS AS A MASTER DOCUMENT.  

Take your MASTER DOCUMENT, open it, put in Event Specific Information - save this as Event Document.

Open Event Document (which has your event number, name, signature, date) - save out a copy for EACH PLAYER  (Player1-Chronicle-Masters of the Fallen Confirmation Bonekeep.doc).

Open Player 1, but in their stuff.  Save the Document.  THEN - (at least in Word 2007), I have SAVE AS -> PDF, and I save a PDF version of Player1-Chronicle-Masters of the Fallen Confirmation Bonekeep.PDF, which will be what I e-mail to them.

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Thoughts on this process?

How do you do it?

What ways have you seen work REALLY WELL?

What ways have you seen work the opposite of REALLY WELL?

Thanks,

SS

[Junar]

I use the Snipping tool on the pdf format and save it as two .png files (top & bottom halves of chronicle sheet).

I pull them together as layers with GIMP (or art program).

I open the file with Paint and use the text tool.  I also use the box tool with crayon setting to color over the sub-tiers which don't apply.

I save a copy with the gray box completed and then edit it 6 times (or one for each player). 

[Scosu PFS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JGp7Meg42U

Yup - I'm just afraid of having to align two parts in a photoshop gimp product.  

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[David Silver]

I use foxit reader, which lets me just type directly on the pdf. Done.

[Cronge]

I use crackmypdf.com and then print to pdf the chronicle page in question using PrimoPDF. I then use acrobat reader to fill out and sign the sheets.

[Graygan]

I should think the regular adobe program that allows you to sign pdf documents should work.  Just use the text box instead of applying your signature... Then save it as a new name.  Then go back and edit the boxes for the next player and save again.

[Jonathan Choy]

I bought PDFfill years ago and use that to crack the chronicle off the Paizo document, save it as a single page, and then add my text to the created PDF (can be saved as a PFL project document); save to PDF with editing and markup turned off and a random owner password. I then stick the chronicles in a dropbox folder and send the links to the players the chronicles belong to (saves work if they ever need to be re-sent).

Back to bed....

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Graygan <30yr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I should think the regular adobe program that allows you to sign pdf documents should work.  Just use the text box instead of applying your signature... Then save it as a new name.  Then go back and edit the boxes for the next player and save again.

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[KeHT]

I use gimp.  but I am anal retentive when it comes to creating chronicles. . .

gimp imports the pdf

then using regular graphic editing I fill out stuff.

I have png’s of my signatures and initials, add the layers…

basic stuff…

I have also created chronicles using my iPad to hand write them, but my precise stylist broke awhile back so now I only have the fat tip and it don’t look so good.

[TriOmegaZero]

Estelar PDF Unlock to crack the PDF, then extraction of the chronicle page via Adobe Acrobat Pro, create form option, and save.