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rpgtex / DND-5e-LaTeX-Template

LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
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Cover Support #235

Open gruszczy opened 4 years ago

gruszczy commented 4 years ago

It would be really great to have a proper cover support, similarly to what GMBinder has - allow setting title, subtitle, cover image and have it be displayed with a font that mimic the official products. I know there are examples floating around, but none of them actually worked well for me :(

BrianCriswell commented 4 years ago

We have had this requested before, and someone provided a PR at one point. The real difficulty is getting something that works for a majority of people who have different images, layouts, fonts, and where a title actually fits best on cover art. I think we are closer to the point where we can realistically support this with the upgrades to the font interface.

A question to the regular contributors and anyone else invested in this: I don't think a fully customizable cover is the way to go because there are too many variables, but I can think of 2 "standard" formats that could be used.

  1. A format which uses a full-page image with a white title near the top and a subtitle near the bottom, closely following the WotC hardcovers without using any of their art.
  2. A format which follows the DMs Guild example document, providing a place to insert the DMs Guild badge.

Does anyone else have some thoughts on this?

jendave commented 4 years ago

The two "standard" formats would be great. Note that the Texbrew project (which I have contributed to) has some cover art assets. https://github.com/Artefact2/texbrew/tree/master/dnd-5e/assets and my fork https://github.com/jendave/texbrew/tree/master/dnd-5e/assets

gruszczy commented 4 years ago

As additional feature: it would be great to provide support for adding DMs Guild logo while the cover support is created (or more generic support for overlay image on the cover).

jendave commented 4 years ago

If it helps, I spoke with /u/AeronDrake who wrote the Homebrewery Formatting Guide (https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/HJWLQsTwUZ). In regards to his cover assets - "everyone can use them as they need" You can see some here at https://imgur.com/a/NbTia.