Using Original Data with Poster Maker

[inexorabletash]

BTW, a handy debugging tip is to narrow down the problem by simplifying the error case.

What I'd do here is delete all the Routes and try again. If it still errors you know it's not the routes, so keep going (e.g. delete the Stylesheet, ...). If it doesn't error then you know it's the Routes so delete everything else and delete half the routes. Keep going until you've narrowed it down to as small a file as possible.

 

[creativehum]

BTW, a handy debugging tip is to narrow down the problem by simplifying the error case.

What I'd do here is delete all the Routes and try again. If it still errors you know it's not the routes, so keep going (e.g. delete the Stylesheet, ...). If it doesn't error then you know it's the Routes so delete everything else and delete half the routes. Keep going until you've narrowed it down to as small a file as possible.

Good advice... and that's what I did.
But I didn't realized the "smart quotes" would be a problem. (I'm storing my data in a word processing file, and sometimes editing in it. And it is set to smart quotes.)

It's all working great now.

Thanks for all the help!

 

[inexorabletash]

I just pushed a server change. The error messages for metadata parser problems should be somewhat better now. The new error in this case would be:

'“' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '"' or '''. Line 4, position 18.

 

[creativehum]

I just pushed a server change. The error messages for metadata parser problems should be somewhat better now. The new error in this case would be:

You are the best.

One more question (and I'm sorry for all the questions, and if you want me to get lost, say, "Dude, enough.")

So, the routes are fine, and the colors match... mostly.

However, there's a light blue route that run along the edge between two worlds. The color is, in fact, not light blue, but a kind of grey when previewed in color.

And when I preview it in B&W, the route line is actually dashed, not a solid line.

Do you know what that's about?

PS: I love the Draft Style.

 

[inexorabletash]

You can use any HTML color by name or #rrggbb code. Google for "html colors".

However, there's a light blue route that run along the edge between two worlds. The color is, in fact, not light blue, but a kind of grey when previewed in color.

I can see you have light blue routes between hexes 0407 and 0408 and then 0408 and 0410 but I don't know if that's what you're talking about. Can you email me your files and maybe a screenshot of what you're seeing? inexorabletash@gmail.com

PS: I love the Draft Style.

I did that on a lark for Marc when he made the original hand-illustrated draft of the Marches available as a bonus.

 

[creativehum]

Sent!

 

[creativehum]

And now...

A whole new question:

I have added Naval Bases and Scout Bases. (They will be in the data I emailed you.)

When I Quick Preview the map, the Naval and Scout bases show up as Stars and Triangles respectively.

But when I click the Render Poster button, the Naval bases show up, the the Scout bases become "?" Question Marks.

So... a new mystery. I've tried it in several Styles. Happens each time.

Edit to Add: I just tried it straight up with the Traveller Map data. Same thing happened: preview shows triangles, render shows question marks.

 

[creativehum]

To everyone but Joshua,

The gray coloring on the jump route was on me. I had a typo for one of the allegiances. I should have spotted it. Joshua did.

 

[inexorabletash]

But when I click the Render Poster button, the Naval bases show up, the the Scout bases become "?" Question Marks.

My bad. A bug slipped in while I was refactoring the code to add SVG support back in August (!) and I broke font embedding for PDFs.

Fixed now, thanks for letting me know!

 

[creativehum]

My bad. A bug slipped in while I was refactoring the code to add SVG support back in August (!) and I broke font embedding for PDFs.

Fixed now, thanks for letting me know!

I'm just glad I was able to be helpful even as I've been a pest.

Anyway, I have a subsector map now, the sort I'd dreamed of since I was a kid first reading the LLBs. Thanks so much for helping to make it possible!

 

[Imperium2016]

Try using this for diagnostics:

http://travellermap.com/tools/lintsec.html

(Integrating that into the maker pages is on the TODO list)



The site is guessing that the data is SEC (not T5 column-based or T5 tab delimited) since it doesn't have {Ix} (Ex) [Cx] in the headers. And SEC parsing requires PBG and Allegiance so it assumes none of the lines match.

I think i am going to have a look into this when me and my friends start playing...