Hey anyone else experiencing this problem when exporting character sheets? Some sections have an oversized front taking up way too much space, where other sections are so small making it unreadable...
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I believe this is a function of the formatting to PDF. With minimal text, the fonts will be larger (though I agree at times it gets unreasonably large). However if you are verbose, the conversion will attempt to shrink the text to a point where it fits in the box provided. The PDF will not adjust the box sizes and instead cram as much text as possible into them. My best suggestion for things like background stories, notes, and other verbose text blocks is to copy/paste those into a separate document and print those independently (assuming you need paper copies), and then only print those PDF pages with the more dynamic aspects of the character sheet like stat blocks/saves/etc. For one you will save yourself paper (I don't need 10 copies of my background story for instance), and you will have each section in a more readable format.
Yeah that might be the best option at this point. Generally I tend to keep things short and to the point so assuming some box spaces are just tiny. It is a bit inconvenient but I do agree with your suggestion for the time being. Just concerned that if I really need a new print for some reason I now have to multi-manage different documents. Super annoying. I do love the online platform though but not always convenient in a country with multiple power outages, hence the need for a printed copy in my case.
As a suggestion they might want to add a word count to these sections to try and avoid future problems like this. BTW the main section I am referring to in my case is the appearance, so still have some wiggle room for reductions.
The property is useful since the legibility of fonts, especially at small sizes, is determined more by the size of lowercase letters than by the size of capital letters. Legibility can become an issue when the first-choice font-family is unavailable and its replacement has a significantly different aspect ratio (the ratio of the size of lowercase letters to the size of the font). To use this property in a way that is compatible with browsers that do not support font-size-adjust, it is specified as a number that the font-size property is multiplied by. This means the value specified for the property should generally be the aspect ratio of the first choice font.
I am having a similar issue, but when I export the file from DnDBeyond, the total HD row does not adjust down for the HD. I have a multiclass character so my HD are 2d8+4d10 and it cuts off the '10' at the end. I adjusted the CON and the character size shrunk. I have been trying to figure out how to adjust the fields in Acrobat Pro DC, but I am not very informed of how to use the software. I am not sure if I can adjust it. It feels like it does not respond to field width and auto adjust and I cannot figure out how to change the font Acrobat is defaulting to.
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IMHO, Earthdawn is still the best fantasy realm, Shadowrun is the best Sci-Fi realm, and Dark Sun is the best D&D realm.
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Hey anyone else experiencing this problem when exporting character sheets? Some sections have an oversized front taking up way too much space, where other sections are so small making it unreadable...
I believe this is a function of the formatting to PDF. With minimal text, the fonts will be larger (though I agree at times it gets unreasonably large). However if you are verbose, the conversion will attempt to shrink the text to a point where it fits in the box provided. The PDF will not adjust the box sizes and instead cram as much text as possible into them. My best suggestion for things like background stories, notes, and other verbose text blocks is to copy/paste those into a separate document and print those independently (assuming you need paper copies), and then only print those PDF pages with the more dynamic aspects of the character sheet like stat blocks/saves/etc. For one you will save yourself paper (I don't need 10 copies of my background story for instance), and you will have each section in a more readable format.
Yeah that might be the best option at this point. Generally I tend to keep things short and to the point so assuming some box spaces are just tiny. It is a bit inconvenient but I do agree with your suggestion for the time being. Just concerned that if I really need a new print for some reason I now have to multi-manage different documents. Super annoying. I do love the online platform though but not always convenient in a country with multiple power outages, hence the need for a printed copy in my case.
As a suggestion they might want to add a word count to these sections to try and avoid future problems like this. BTW the main section I am referring to in my case is the appearance, so still have some wiggle room for reductions.
The property is useful since the legibility of fonts, especially at small sizes, is determined more by the size of lowercase letters than by the size of capital letters. Legibility can become an issue when the first-choice font-family is unavailable and its replacement has a significantly different aspect ratio (the ratio of the size of lowercase letters to the size of the font). To use this property in a way that is compatible with browsers that do not support font-size-adjust, it is specified as a number that the font-size property is multiplied by. This means the value specified for the property should generally be the aspect ratio of the first choice font.
I am having a similar issue, but when I export the file from DnDBeyond, the total HD row does not adjust down for the HD. I have a multiclass character so my HD are 2d8+4d10 and it cuts off the '10' at the end. I adjusted the CON and the character size shrunk. I have been trying to figure out how to adjust the fields in Acrobat Pro DC, but I am not very informed of how to use the software. I am not sure if I can adjust it. It feels like it does not respond to field width and auto adjust and I cannot figure out how to change the font Acrobat is defaulting to.
IMHO, Earthdawn is still the best fantasy realm, Shadowrun is the best Sci-Fi realm, and Dark Sun is the best D&D realm.