Traveller Map - sector booklet (really superb)

[inexorabletash]

Its doing the same for me.
(Old Safari and MacOS on PPC)

I'll see if I can get it working in Safari. Generating the images inline turns out to be remarkably tricky.

 

[Dagrill]

BeRKA just posted this on Facebook, great find:

http://travellermap.com/booklet.html

Marvellous!

Hi,

how do you get it to redraw borders? eg post 5FW for Spinward Marches?

Regards

David

 

[agorski]

The SectorMaker app I just finished writing can export T5 column and tab-delimited data as well as the metadata.

The metadata works fine as well as the tab-delimited data to produce a nice booklet, however each subsector displays "The 'x' subsector contains no charted worlds" instead of displaying the world data even though worlds are clearly displayed. Is this intended for user-generated data?

If I try to use column-delimited data I get only the metadata drawn on the maps. No worlds at all. Could be a problem with my formatting. I'll have to check that.

Edit: Oops, my bad. The column-delimited data works fine if I remember to leave in the header line that defines the fields. Doh!

 

[Thoom]

BeRKA just posted this on Facebook, great find:

http://travellermap.com/booklet.html

You can select from an OTU sector or paste in your own sector data. You need to provide some meta-data (subsector names and locations, x-boat routes and borders - use an OTU sector to see how the XML is formatted).

It lays out a booklet in the style of Supplement 3 or Supplement 10. It includes columns for T5 data - the Importance, Economic and Cultural Extensions. The booklet includes an index at the end for all the map symbols used, and a world index (worlds in alpha order with both subsector letter and sector co-ordinate). The booklet is perfectly paginated for printing (or converting to a PDF).

Marvellous!

OMG! This is so cool!

Thanks!

 

[Baron]

Can someone advise how I can convert the output to pdf rather than printing it? Sorry, I guess I'm not that tech-savvy.

 

[inexorabletash]

Most operating systems let you "print to PDF" in some way - it may show up as an option in the print dialog. Google for advice on your operating system.

 

[inexorabletash]

Edit: Oops, my bad. The column-delimited data works fine if I remember to leave in the header line that defines the fields. Doh!

Yeah, the T5 formats are quite strict and don't guess, which is why I don't have them as the default.

 

[Baron]

Most operating systems let you "print to PDF" in some way - it may show up as an option in the print dialog. Google for advice on your operating system.

Well, thanks for the suggestion. I didn't get anywhere looking up Vista, so I looked for plug-ins for my browser (Firefox) and got it all whirring away!

Now, about those trips into Vargr and Zhodani space...

 

[cym0k]

Slight problem with Print to PDF on OSX mavericks and Chrome. It is better to save the HTML to your HDD and use it on-screen. Currently the maps run off-page and other things.

Might be a page setup issue. I will find out and report back.

EDIT

Nope. Even with native print dialogue something is up. OSX issue I think. No, wait. It's Chrome. Safari does the job perfectly!

Happy camper!

 

[inexorabletash]

I'll see if I can get it working in Safari. Generating the images inline turns out to be remarkably tricky.

Works in newish Safari. Sorry.

Generating PDF on the server is the real fix, but I'm not going to get to that forevers.

 

[agorski]

Yeah, the T5 formats are quite strict and don't guess, which is why I don't have them as the default.

I like the T5 tab-delimited format because it doesn't truncate any of the data.

 

[cym0k]

I printed this today. A4, one page per sheet. Very nice. Perhaps next time I should print 2 on one as half the page is empty.

One minor thing, the full sector map is very small and would look better (in my world!) filling the whole (two?) page(s).

I will experiment.

 

[aza]

Brilliant! FYI works in Iceweasel in Debian Stable.

 

[cym0k]

What are rendering times like for imported .sec data?

I have some from here: http://www.heldenhaufen.de/T5/

The generation process for me is far far longer than standard travellermap.com processing. 20 minutes in and as yet, no render.

 

[inexorabletash]

It should only take seconds. Any longer, you're seeing a browser compat problem.

Using Safari 5 by any chance?

 

[inexorabletash]

If you've had problems, please give it another try. I made two tweaks:

* Failures during composition are now reported, so you can at least tell me what's breaking.

* I managed to drop a dependency on the FileReader API which medium-old browsers may not support. This might get it working in Safari 5 but I can't promise.

 

[aramis]

took a while on Chrome for android, but rendered.

 

[ShapeShifter]

I had to DL a webpage-to-pdf addon for Firefox (v26.0), but it doesn't appear to work: the text of the generated webpage is replaced into some other sans serif font that looks horrible, and the layout is portrait instead of landscape. This would be nifty -- if I can only get it to work properly.

 

[OjnoTheRed]

I had to DL a webpage-to-pdf addon for Firefox (v26.0), but it doesn't appear to work: the text of the generated webpage is replaced into some other sans serif font that looks horrible, and the layout is portrait instead of landscape. This would be nifty -- if I can only get it to work properly.

What I've done is download PDF Creator which installs as a "printer" on your system. You then "print" the output but select PDF Creator as your printer, and then PDF Creator kicks in to let you choose a location to save your new PDF file.

 

[cym0k]

No change my end with either Safari or Chrome.

I drag/copy the contents of a .sec to the top box and I get this.

I put the same data in the bottom box, it hangs on processing.