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Printing with Pictures
 
 
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Created on 20 May 2013 by jmgariepy

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2013-05-20 08:41:10: jmgariepy created the card Printing with Pictures

Sorry about the frame on this card. I had a question, not a suggestion. This seemed like the right set to ask it in, but questions don't have their own color.

Recently, I printed up the Treasures in my Treasure set. We're doing some playtesting around here for a new game, and figured they'd be good to temporarily work with. Unfortunately, when I went to print the cards, the images on each card were converted to a half-black, half-white image, since... well, I don't know why exactly. I'm sure this has to do with html coding, and the fact that the images are merely 'borrowed' from another website, but aren't stored on Multiverse. Outside of that, though, I'm out of my league.

Do you know of anyway to print cards from Multiverse's website in a way that will include the images in frame? Or maybe a program that allows people to take a snap shot of a webpage and print that (Print screen only prints the screen. The cards take up more space than just one page). I'd say something about just recreating them with MTGMaker... but that seems to be missing the point of using Multiverse.

That's an odd one. The problems I've had with printing have been getting the cards to come out at the right size; images form other sites have been fine.

What OS / browser?

Chrome. It happens after I click 'Printable', which brings me to a page with just the cards and a few details. When I print the page, though, the print preview removes the card art. It prints the same way the preview suggests it will.

Card size is spot on.

That's very odd. I've printed from both Chrome and FF with card art successfully before... but yes, I see the problem now.

Oh. Oh, bother, I think the problem may be with the new token frame. All your Treasures are using the token frame, with its rounded corners, and it looks like that's what's breaking in the Chrome PDF generation (which is what it prints from).

It looks like the print preview at least is OK in Firefox (v21.0), so try giving it a go there.

Since the treasures render OK in normal browsing I suspect it's a bug in Chrome's PDF rendering of rounded corners on things with borders (which is the way I do pinlines). I'll try to isolate it and submit a bug report, because they did fix the problem with Chrome printing of gradients after I submitted that bug report.

In the meantime, either make your Treasures non-token (sadface) or print from Firefox.

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