Anyone have a character sheet that isn't an image?

[urbwar]

Ok, I admit it. I get really frustrated trying to make character sheets using all the neat ones saved as image files. Trying to line up text in Comic Life, Open Office and/or Scribus starts to tick me off.

Patronus has a doc file, but it's an image saved as a doc file. No use there.

Does anyone have one that isn't an image, so I can actually use it with my poor desktop publishing skills? If I need to, I can make one myself, but knowing me, that will take awhile.

[BASHMAN]

I used to use MS Word to do everything until I began using comiclife. With the "wordart" you can still make some really spiffy looking graphical text.

You can always use text-boxes to help you position things (and even make them have no outline so nobody knows its a text-box)

[Lindharin]

Hi,

Take a look at this Word doc. It uses the standard graphical sheet that has been floating around, and puts it as a background image in a Word file. Then it has text boxes for each of the main areas. The text boxes aren't always perfectly placed, I didn't take the time to resize the background image for an exact fit.

MS Word Character Sheet

After filling in the boxes, and possibly adding a character pic (if desired), I save the character as a Word file for future use, and then use the free print driver called PDFCreator to "print" the page as a graphic file (jpg or png), for posting on here. Or you could use something like Scribd to upload the word file itself, and just link to it from here.

[urbwar]

I used to use MS Word to do everything until I began using comiclife. With the "wordart" you can still make some really spiffy looking graphical text.

You can always use text-boxes to help you position things (and even make them have no outline so nobody knows its a text-box)

I find Comic Life maddening to use. I can't explain why, but it just feels like it's harder than it should be. Trying to line up numbers for the ability scores is where I get aggravated, and tend to give up.

[urbwar]

Lindharin,

Thanks. I downloaded it, and will check it out. I never though trying to do a character sheet would be such a pain in the butt!

[BASHMAN]

I used to use MS Word to do everything until I began using comiclife. With the "wordart" you can still make some really spiffy looking graphical text.

You can always use text-boxes to help you position things (and even make them have no outline so nobody knows its a text-box)

I find Comic Life maddening to use. I can't explain why, but it just feels like it's harder than it should be. Trying to line up numbers for the ability scores is where I get aggravated, and tend to give up.

I just click on the ability score, and change it. So where it says "Brawn" I change to say "Brawn 4" you see? Far easier than trying to line up a seperate 4 next to the word Brawn.

[urbwar]

I just click on the ability score, and change it. So where it says "Brawn" I change to say "Brawn 4" you see? Far easier than trying to line up a seperate 4 next to the word Brawn.

And you can do this with the jpeg character sheet, or do you have a template you're using where you can modify the text? Cause that sure doesn't happen when I try it in Comic Life with the character sheet image

[BASHMAN]

In comic Life I don't use the character sheet Image- I wrote out all the words in "invisible" text boxes.

[urbwar]

In comic Life I don't use the character sheet Image- I wrote out all the words in "invisible" text boxes.

Gotcha. Makes perfect sense (which is probably why I didn't think of it myself ).

Gonna have to try that, and see how it works. I've been trying to do a sheet for American Ape to post, and it's been driving me nuts.

[urbwar]

Ok, So I did the text box in Comic Life. Came out ok, but I didn't see how to turn the box invisible. I thought sending it to the back would do it, but that didn't work. What's the command to make the text box invisible?

[BASHMAN]

When you have the text box selected, off to the right- uncheck "fill" and "frame".