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Forums  > NeverWinter Nights 2 / Vives 2  > NWN2: General  > Vives 2 Players Handbook     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: Vives 2 Players Handbook  Arathon vives.dyndns.org Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total Posts: 1885 Send PM   Vives 2 Players Handbook Posted: 22 Feb 2007 04:45 PM So we'd like to do a spiffy players handbook for Vives 2, much as was done with Vives 1.... Trouble is I don't know any decent free tool to make spiffy looking pages etc.... Perhaps a nice old tattered book feel? Basically a background type thing, which we can then type over and add pictures/screenshots etc? I have no idea where to start reallySo anyone got any recommendations for nice tools and such (free) that we can use to get started? Cheers - Ara Vives Screenshots!  Fictrix Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Total Posts: 3042 Send PM   Re: Vives 2 Players Handbook Posted: 22 Feb 2007 05:01 PM I'll get started on it. About time I put Adobe CS and my art degree to good use after all. Heehee.  Casa Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Total Posts: 70 Send PM   Re: Vives 2 Players Handbook Posted: 22 Feb 2007 05:25 PM What you should look for is a nice little layout program, Quark or InDesign for cheap, so to say. I'm not familiar with free or shareware layout programs in the Windows world, but since I know a few for the Mac, there should be about ten times the amount for Windows. There was a nice one called Ragtime Private sometime ago, it was free for non-commercial use and had all the features of the commercial edition. I think the company has pulled it from their site, but maybe someone has mirrored it. In the layout program, whatever it is, you can then just use a backround image like a piece of parchment and write the text on a new layer. Basically, you can do the same in Photoshop too, but that would result in huge file size and wouldn't make such a nice little pdf file later...  Casa Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Total Posts: 70 Send PM   Re: Vives 2 Players Handbook Posted: 22 Feb 2007 05:27 PM oh, the window was open too long,haven't seen Fictrix's reply yet. Anyway, this one has an art degree too, if you need some assistance. ;)  T'mok Gurzi www.myspace.com Joined: 17 May 2006 Total Posts: 309 Send PM   Re: Vives 2 Players Handbook Posted: 22 Feb 2007 05:41 PM My job as a corporate stooge is building PowerPoint decks. If you give me the components you want to use (pictures, text, etc) I can easily put a Players Handbook together and with the push of a button convert it to PDF. T'mok Gurzi Resident Gnoll Warlord patron for the noble yet drink addled Timik Gorozai the Mistake Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > NeverWinter Nights 2 / Vives 2  > NWN2: General  > Vives 2 Players Handbook