PDF Modding Guide and Map Edit Guide - Page 2

NTJedi · #11 October 5th, 2007, 02:19 PM

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Zylithan said:
yay for Edi. I owe your DB props as it was invaluable in my Eight Gates map. If you captain the map making pdf I'd love to proofread or add tips or whatnot.

Perhaps the devs can work with Edi on updating the PDFs. I can also provide lots of time saving details regarding the map edit commands... such as the limitations of the #god command.

lch · #12 October 6th, 2007, 11:39 PM

We are talking about those PDFs in the doc directory that shipped with the game, right?

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Zylithan said:
PDFs can be edited, but most people don't have the software. (Adober Distiller?)

Yep, there are some programs for that. Of course, PDF isn't really meant to be an editable document format.

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Zylithan said:
But I think things like word can change themselves into a PDF (can write PDF, but not edit). So if we could wordify the original PDF, then have a working word doc (and PDF it for pretty release).

If by "wordify" you mean OCR, then that would be the obvious solution. AFAIK the structure of those files isn't very complex. Even in case only the text is retained, it will be easy to recreate the document afterwards. I'll look into it.

jutetrea · #13 October 7th, 2007, 03:41 AM

Well, here they are in word... they came over but they're ugly. Lots of formatting needed. The two column format, all the headings, and tables made Adobe 6 unhappy.

jutetrea · #14 October 7th, 2007, 03:44 AM

They actually look a bit better in rtf, everythings justified and some of the tables look wonky. It seems the level of effort to format may be less though.

Edi · #15 October 7th, 2007, 05:30 AM

As I said, if the originals are something that translates to Open Office, we can get PDFs with the double columns formatting no problem. I've made both single and double column PDFs that turned out looking really good.

lch · #16 October 9th, 2007, 10:39 AM

Looking at the PDFs again now, I am fairly sure that this is TeX / LaTeX output. It would be easy as pie to update them given the original source, and even creating them from scratch would be fairly easy.

Sombre · #17 October 9th, 2007, 10:50 AM

If you need any help with updating these, let me know. I could certainly add some extra comments to the mod commands.

llamabeast · #18 October 9th, 2007, 11:02 AM

I also thought it was LaTeX output. We should harass JK for the source.

Gandalf Parker · #19 October 9th, 2007, 11:52 AM

The new patch has new docs.
But I do see some things on the map doc that could use some fixing

Sombre · #20 October 9th, 2007, 12:38 PM

The modding doc doesn't seem updated to me.

It still says stuff like "#poisonres [percentage] - currently grants total immunity no matter what number is used" which isn't true, for example.