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Not sure what you mean. The range band 'image' in LBB1 is simply thirteen plain white strips like a 1 column table produced in Word. Surely you can create an image of that easily enough?
Make a table in Word, Print Screen, paste into Paint, select the bit you want, copy it into another Paint document, save.
If not that, what else do you mean?
Make a table in Word, Print Screen, paste into Paint, select the bit you want, copy it into another Paint document, save.
If not that, what else do you mean?
nats
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Why not just print it from Word directly? I dont know where there is any benefit of using Paint unless of course you need to convert it into a Jpeg. But if you got a free PDF converter you could convert the Word doc to a PDF which would be better quality nd probably smaller.
Anyway if you have Word then you will have Excel so instead why dont you instead create a 12.5mm square grid in Excel and convert that to a Jpeg image/PDF onto which you could draw some terrain/objects using Paint, Paintshop Pro (or better Photoshop if you have it). That would represent typical Traveller 1.5m movement squares at the normal 15mm figure scale as a representation of the combat area on which you can introduce some tactics. Movement rate on these 1.5m squares would be 4 squares if walking and 8 squares if running.
I also sometimes use 5mm square A4/A3 paper which is useful for larger battles on which you can draw larger ship plans and terrain and use typical 6mm metal figures. This is more fiddly for normal combat but if you mount the figure on square plasticard stands and group them into fire teams etc it can work really well for large scale combat or combat on very large ships, and the 5mm squares roughly equate to 1.5m squares at that scale (well near as dammit).
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