Gordy
November 5th, 2007, 13:02
Hi gang,
My team and I are on our second campaign now, having played with FG1 for many months and over 30 sessions. I decided to start us on an old AD&D campaign which I manually converted to D20 - I used a module that at least one of my players was familiar with ( had DM'd once before, in fact ). The problem was, for FG1 and still is, for FG2 is cutting and pasting from an OCR pdf. I want to be able to scan the paper module to pdf, cut slabs of text out of the PDF and more or less compose the module in FG2 storyboards. The scanning works great and it detects the text no problem. The trouble starts when I paste into the 'text edit' of my stories. It seems to struggle with the lines and inserts extra carriage returns, which I have to delete in order to not go cross eyed. I'll post a picture of what I mean. I've tried pasting into a notepad format first ( which appears to work fine ) but upon pasting it all goes back to double lines. I have gotten really good on the 'delete/end' key combo in order to tidy this up but I feel like I shouldnt have to. It really affects my motivation to prepare things in this manner, and having played that campaign I -know- the benefits of playing with premade modules - enough of the background is there to lay your hands on but not enough that you dont need to still adlib.
Closer inspection tells me that the PDF is actually probably telling it to put in a carriage return....?
Can anyone offer me a solution or a workaround?
Regards,
G
My team and I are on our second campaign now, having played with FG1 for many months and over 30 sessions. I decided to start us on an old AD&D campaign which I manually converted to D20 - I used a module that at least one of my players was familiar with ( had DM'd once before, in fact ). The problem was, for FG1 and still is, for FG2 is cutting and pasting from an OCR pdf. I want to be able to scan the paper module to pdf, cut slabs of text out of the PDF and more or less compose the module in FG2 storyboards. The scanning works great and it detects the text no problem. The trouble starts when I paste into the 'text edit' of my stories. It seems to struggle with the lines and inserts extra carriage returns, which I have to delete in order to not go cross eyed. I'll post a picture of what I mean. I've tried pasting into a notepad format first ( which appears to work fine ) but upon pasting it all goes back to double lines. I have gotten really good on the 'delete/end' key combo in order to tidy this up but I feel like I shouldnt have to. It really affects my motivation to prepare things in this manner, and having played that campaign I -know- the benefits of playing with premade modules - enough of the background is there to lay your hands on but not enough that you dont need to still adlib.
Closer inspection tells me that the PDF is actually probably telling it to put in a carriage return....?
Can anyone offer me a solution or a workaround?
Regards,
G