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Super Squirrel
Apr 14th, '07, 12:12 PM
This is an odd request. I need an Open Office Template for plugging in some Teen Champion characters for export to PDF. Does anyone have any idea where to begin on getting one set-up? :)
Karmakaze
Apr 14th, '07, 02:32 PM
Open office should be able to open any of the rtf templates...
Curufea
Apr 15th, '07, 05:51 PM
My thoughts too - designing PDF in Open Office is just the same as any other document layout. You just choose a different format to save it as/export it to.
mudpyr8
Apr 16th, '07, 07:52 AM
I've got an OTS template, but it isn't for Sidekick.
Vondy
Apr 16th, '07, 11:20 AM
Open office should be able to open any of the rtf templates...

It doesn't always do the formatting properly when opening other formats and can be a bear to get working properly depending on which functions were used, which is a (often) problem when using templates. On the other hand, sometimes not.
Vondy
Apr 16th, '07, 11:20 AM
I've got an OTS template, but it isn't for Sidekick.

I use OO - repped.
Super Squirrel
Apr 16th, '07, 03:45 PM
I've got an OTS template, but it isn't for Sidekick.
I'll check that out tonight. It may not be sidekick but I can modify it to my liking if it doesn't fit perfectly. Thanks.
Super Squirrel
Apr 28th, '07, 08:43 AM
I'm converting the template to my needs for Sidekick. This may take a while.
mudpyr8
Apr 30th, '07, 05:22 AM
Threw me off SS, the email post had something about an error in SPD but I see you've edited your post. I checked my copy and there is no error (as much as I've used the sheet I would have been surprised to find an error there).

For reference, I'm using OO 2.1 (haven't upgraded to 2.2 yet) with AutoCalc on.
Super Squirrel
May 4th, '07, 11:28 AM
I edited the post because I realized I had made the error when I started "crunching" rows.
Super Squirrel
May 12th, '07, 09:27 AM
Here is version 1.1 of my Sidekick Character Template.

It needs a lot of formula work but it displays and exports correctly for characters.
mudpyr8
May 13th, '07, 04:33 PM
That looks great. Do you want me to fix the formulae or are you going to take care of that?
Super Squirrel
May 13th, '07, 05:23 PM
If you want to, I'd love it. I don't know when I'll get time to get to it.
Super Squirrel
May 17th, '07, 07:51 AM
Upon exporting a character, other issues have emerged.

But, here is my first Teen Champions character NPC using the template:
http://teenchampions.googlepages.com/noir.pdf
Vondy
May 19th, '07, 12:24 PM
It looks good.