The PDF Creator
Added 2021-01-21 23:44:02 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!
I know most of us are in a weird space right now with the pandemic forcing us to move most (if not all) of our games online, but I wanted to give a quick a dirty run down the PDF Creator feature on the Printable Heroes website as it looks like from the last poll I just did that a fair number of people haven't had a chance to check it out yet.
This is something we've been prototyping on the website that will let you customize your own page layout to save out as a PDF or print directly from the website. It's still in beta and not all of the older miniatures are supported yet (though every new miniature will be).
You can access it from a couple different places:
Here,
and here,
If you're not seeing that "Add to Page+" button on on the miniature preview that likely that miniature just hasn't been updated to support the PDF Creator yet. I'll be update older minis in between everything else. If there's something specific you need feel free to ping me in the Discord channel and I'll try to bump it up in priority.
Right now it's pretty bare bones; you can add minis to the layout from the main catalog or you can use the search function in the PDF Creator to look up minis and drag them over to the page layout. There's a checkbox for adding the black borders (Show Silhouettes) and you can drag minis over to the trash can icon to remove them form the page.
This is a feature we're pretty excited about developing further and it's my hope that once we're able to start playing back at tabletops again it'll be a useful tool for many of you to save paper and print exactly what you want on the page.
Please feel free to leave thoughts/feedbacks below.
Cheers!
-Marshall
Comments
Sorry, just saw the line about your plans to add them between other creations - that answers my question.
Kayle Bradley
2023-11-12 17:01:28 +0000 UTCAre there any plans to get the old minis available for the pdf creator? I print at a Staples kiosk, so the "premade" sheets don't really work because I cannot interact with the sheet beforehand (to add the black background effect, for instance). What kinda sucks, is that some of the most common monsters (base goblins and zombies, for example) have been unavailable to me because they're the oldest minis in the catalogue.
Kayle Bradley
2023-11-12 17:00:14 +0000 UTCHi Sky, did you just sign up at the Champions Tier today? If so then this is likely caused by a delay on Patreon's end with fully updating the data for new patrons that it shares with my website; this seems to happen only on the 1st of every month and it should resolve itself within the next few hours (usually by 5pm PST I've noticed). Please let me know if you're still unable to access the correct content later tonight.
PrintableHeroes
2021-06-01 21:19:05 +0000 UTCI joined at the Champions tier and when I sign into your site, it says I am still at the free level and can't access the PDF creator or any of the higher tier minis.
Sky Gewant
2021-06-01 21:02:48 +0000 UTCCool stuff, I'll try that out next time. Is it just me or isn't there any hero options for low-level (hero) characters? All the heroes look so buff and equipped and there are a lot of monsters but not as many heroes
Mårten Woxberg
2021-05-16 10:55:55 +0000 UTCHi! I just joined the Patreon and WOW - there is al lot of fantastic miniatures here and with the PDF Creator it´s a breeze to get exactly what you want printed! EXCELLENT!
2021-04-06 10:52:56 +0000 UTCI've been using the PDF creator since learning about it from this and your other post - it's been great! Thank you for all of the wonderful features!
Laura
2021-02-25 20:34:00 +0000 UTCI just got a chance to try this out. It's brilliant!! I can't wait until all the minis are uploaded!!
Sylvia Joy
2021-02-07 23:42:59 +0000 UTCThe PDF creator is great, saves me a lot of time compiling the .jpgs into my own PDFs for printing. Suggestions for features: 1) Build a function to allow for flipping the direction the mini is facing. 2) Build a function for rotating the mini on the PDF page so we can maximize the page surface. Other than that, this is a fantastic feature, thanks for adding it to the website!
Dan
2021-02-06 10:33:01 +0000 UTCAre you kidding me, this is the best thing since sliced bread, because I get to pick and choose the slices
Axiom Delver
2021-02-04 10:09:43 +0000 UTCThe PDF creator is fantastic for getting the minis you need.
2021-02-01 17:31:05 +0000 UTCI use the PDF creator feature quite a bit to save photo paper and ink by printing only the minis I need for an upcoming session. It's a great feature!
2021-01-31 22:49:31 +0000 UTCThis pdf creator is a great feature and would use it more often if the older designs would also have the "Add to page" button. Example: The human bartender. I do enjoy all of your designs and print them on A4 photo paper with a minimum of 170g thickness. They look amazing! I would really like to ask you for some more random human / dwarf and elf town or city patrons. Paper mini's to crowd your Inn type of stuff XD! Thanks
Herman Honderd
2021-01-29 11:52:40 +0000 UTCOh man, I have some fun stuff in the works for you... XD
PrintableHeroes
2021-01-28 20:43:24 +0000 UTCAh, that is great feedback. I'll have to think of the best way to implement something like that. I sometimes worry about just throwing so many files under each miniature entry that it can get confusing, but I can definitely see how having pog-style tokens for print would be very useful.
PrintableHeroes
2021-01-28 20:42:46 +0000 UTCThis is a great feature and I appreciate you educating us on its existence via email. It would be great if we could add the VTT-style images to the pdf creator. I use them for Sly-flourish "Crafting Lazy Monster Token" technique minis.
2021-01-27 02:30:32 +0000 UTCI don't know how I missed this. I'm getting into Rangers of the Shadowdeep and will finally get to start using your designs!
Rory O'Connor
2021-01-23 13:59:11 +0000 UTCVery exited about this. will help me print out minis for my players characters without extra work or wasted paper
They Were Monsters
2021-01-22 22:18:59 +0000 UTCAwesome! I've been wishing for something like this since I first started backing! Most of my games have moved to online, but I just started playing with my family and this'll be so helpful when I get back to printing minis!
Adrian Orlando
2021-01-22 16:39:31 +0000 UTCThis is amazing! I didn't know it was there, and have been wishing I knew how to do....exactly what this does. Thanks so much for making this tool!
Laura
2021-01-22 13:44:21 +0000 UTCIt is a cool feature as I have been doing this in Photoshop... I dont use a home printer to print my figures... I dont currently own a printer and I find it much better quality to run down to my local supermarket and use the instant photo printer they have its quite cheap also... I have been printing on 130x180mm photos but to do this I have been copying them accross to photoshop to create my layouts... this gives me 2 to 6 figures per photo (0,60€ a print) As the PDF Creator is limited to A4, A3 and Letter and It would be a great feature if it could have a "Custom size" functionality
2021-01-22 11:23:47 +0000 UTCGreat feature. I've always done it myself, but it'll save me hell of a lot time.
2021-01-22 11:16:20 +0000 UTCEs fantástico... Una gran herramienta. Gracias
José María (Overdaus)
2021-01-22 06:28:16 +0000 UTCYou mean I taught myself to do this in Photoshop for nothing??
M F
2021-01-22 02:59:05 +0000 UTCThank you so much for constantly improving the experience of using your service. This is fantastic.
2021-01-22 02:54:14 +0000 UTCYes! This is something we're looking at adding support for; Patrons being able to save and share encounters/pages etc
PrintableHeroes
2021-01-22 01:11:39 +0000 UTCMaking something like this also generate cutfiles would be very helpful. If you could output outline DXF, that would work...
OldSchoolDM
2021-01-22 00:43:11 +0000 UTCOh this will be so so useful once we can play in person again.
Dustin K
2021-01-22 00:03:42 +0000 UTCI love this feature, and use it a s much as possible, saves me a ton of paper and ink.I would love it if there could be a mirror/rotating option, or maybe even a scaling option. It could be awesome if you could make a kingcrab yourself, by scaling a normal crab miniature.
Bekim Maksuti
2021-01-22 00:03:36 +0000 UTCLove the PDF creator. It truly saves me lots of paper and time when I’m batch printing. Would be nice to be able to look at other peoples’ created pages so as to essentially have premade encounters all set and ready to go.
2021-01-21 23:50:34 +0000 UTCI voted “I don’t know,” but after you clarified in this post, I DO know. I change my vote. I LOVE this feature. It’s so much easier on my printer.
William Richardson
2021-01-21 23:47:27 +0000 UTC
