), I have been giving some thought to task of printing maps.When I started with SPWAW, I searched the forum for ways to print maps, and came up with the following:
- stitch together screenshots, and print that
- use Fred's WAW_Map (sorry, no link - search the forum for "print map") to produce a contour map, and print that
And so I am now in the process of creating a map printing tool. This will take the output of Fred's WAW_Map (copy to clipboard or copy to file) and produce a PDF of a basic map, containing contour lines, roads, rivers and other basic features. The types of features will probably be selectable, as will colour. This will enable plain black on white for laser printers, and colour on white for inkjets (gotta have those orange contour lines
).Which brings me to my first question: is anyone else doing this? I ask because I don't want to unnecessarily duplicate someone else's efforts. Honest. It's not because I'm lazy. Really.
And my second question: is anybody else interested in using something like this?
Final question: does anyone have any info on reading scenario.dat files directly? Sadly, WAW_Map doesn't give things like victory hexes, which I'd really like to include.
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