MAIF/cards

Impression

corentinmb opened this issue · 14 comments

corentinmb commented

Y aura-t-il la feature d'impression des cartes ? Histoire de pouvoir jouer avec de vraies cartes :-) ?

gotson commented

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Apparently some decks were handed over at Devoxx, but it would definitely be good to be able to print, especially for people on the other side of the planet :)

gotson commented

I did some research about printing, and found a few things:

  • when trying to print a webpage, a specific css for media=print is required
  • i found out that the standard cards usually have a height of 3.5" (88.9mm). Depending on the card format the width can differ (poker cards are 2.5", bridge cards are a bit narrower).
  • i tested a few websites when you can upload images to print cards, but the resolution of the provided .png files is too low. Ideally we would need higher resolution images.
  • some online printing services require a multi-page .pdf file (with one one-sided card per page), while others accept .png or .tiff files

I'm not sure what would be the best approach to provide a printing facility for those cards.
Maybe a first step would be to have a dedicated .css for printing, that would remove the background (or provide a grey background, since the cards border is white), size the cards correctly to 3.5" height (keeping aspect ratio), and place cards in a way that when printing on A4 it's equally distributed on the page for easy cutting.

What do you think ?

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desmfr commented

Hello @corentinmb @gotson

sorry for this answer delay

we work on it, we want to share the the file that we gave to the professional printer to make the real deck but it's not appropriate to classic home printers (the cards are recto/verso).

we are looking for an easy to print and cut solution ;)

desmfr commented

i assign this issue to our talended designer ;) @francois-4h04

gotson commented

@desmfr i would also be interested in the file for professional printer!

desmfr commented

@desmfr i would also be interested in the file for professional printer!

OK @gotson we gonna share it soon ;)

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baudelotphilippe commented

I published a new version with a print feature.
Borders are display around the cards and 1 double-sided card / page.
It's better to print in landscape mode.

Looking for your feedbacks

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gotson commented

I published a new version with a print feature.
Borders are display around the cards and 1 double-sided card / page.
It's better to print in landscape mode.

Looking for your feedbacks

Since the hosted version on GH pages is not updated i built a local one to check the changes, but when i try to print or emulate print using Chrome 70 i still get white background on the cards.

baudelotphilippe commented

Have you launch the generator ?

How to
yarn install
yarn generator (build the cards)
yarn server
Launch : http://localhost:3000/cards/

gotson commented

@baudelotphilippe yes i did, that's the rendering i get with media print.

image

baudelotphilippe commented

yes, it's correct.

it's printable like that, no ?

gotson commented

oh ok, in my mind the idea was to print it like real cards with the colors and borders :)

desmfr commented

original fr file available in the repo
https://github.com/MAIF/cards/raw/master/pdf/cards.pdf