Universal Character Sheet Printer for FG

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Originally Posted by LordEntrails

You will need to edit/change the XSL file to add the additional fields. You will probably end up wanting to add another page for the additional info unless you can find someone to squeeze it in.

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Thanks!! I may just try that. I'll keep you posted.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the program doesn't do a thing for me.
My character was made in the 5e ruleset in FGU.
for "Select XSL File" (which I'll be honest I don't even know what that is but I selected the one for CharacterSheet_5e, seemed logical I used the 5e ruleset and I'm trying to print a character sheet).

Select XML Source - I have the .xml of my character sheet selected.

Select Output File I assume this is where the generated .HTML file will be saved? I just used the root of C:\ and named the file after my character name (Theren) so it says C:\Theren.html

I click Create Output File.

Nothing happens, nada, zilch, nuttin...

Unless it takes a long time to generate the .html? Also does the program say a message or anything to tell you when its done?

The weird thing is a while back I swore I got this to work.

You probably dont have permissions to write to the root of c:\

Damned beat me to it. The root of the C: drive is possibly protected from file writing. The other settings are all correct.

Gracias por el aporte. Sin duda lo probare

are there any plans to update and add the Rifts character sheet to this?

This seems to work ok, but it really is not rendering everything I want printed out and it seems the fonts/formatting are a bit off of different templates. I'm not sure if there are other alternatives?

(I don't want to hijack this thread, but it seems like a fairly simple project to just map the xml character data into a pdf form - pdf forms are already used for character sheets. That would be perfect for me)

The XSL files are editable if you want to switch out a font, reorder stuff, change sizes, or even pull additional info.

There is more discussion and modified XSL examples and code in the later parts of this thread: Utility: FG Print Tool (Print campaigns or character sheets)

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Originally Posted by LordEntrails

There is more discussion and modified XSL examples and code in the later parts of this thread: Utility: FG Print Tool (Print campaigns or character sheets)

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Thanks. That looks interesting and flexible, however my strength is in coding and not layout. To get something nice and complete for the 5e.2024 data would probably take me a long time.
Instead, I spent the weekend coding up a pretty clean solution for my needs: xml data + mako template => output
I have 'spell list', 'inventory', and 'features' templates that generate markdown text (Just paste into homebrew.naturalcrit.com & print)
I have a 'FDF' template that can populate a pdf form. (gets the mapping from a 'master' pdf form where I filled in the boxes with the mako strings)
It has clean code vs data vs display separation, so should work from everything from RPGs to tax forms (any licensed data must come from the user, not the program). It is a working POC, but it would not be much work to make it user friendly.

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