Counter Collection Digital and printing?

[SSquirrel]

VTTs are a good thing, but we lack a laptop and/or projector and our computers aren't conducive to everyone crowding around to see maps Very god idea tho if we had the setup for it

 

[catsclaw227]

I print mine from Corel Draw, but I've heard of people using Word easily enough. I then put double-face tape on the back, and glue the full counter page to a thicker cardboard. After that it's scissors time.

I have a CorelDraw script that I use to auto center over a black bordered circle and SmartClip the image. It makes it into a round black bordered token that I glue to wooden discs. I have scripts that do small, medium, Large, Huge.

 

[Wolfspider]

I print mine out in Microsoft Word. Nice and simple. Easy to copy and paste multiple pictures. Easy to resize the counters to whatever size you need.

I print them out on normal paper but then I laminate them. This makes them nice and stiff as well as durable. Plus if anyone spills a drink they are still ok. I've got counters I've used several times now without any wear and tear.

Olaf the Stout

This is exactly what I do. Works wonderfully.

 

[Staffan]

Super easy. Do you have MS Office? I use Powerpoint, myself, inserting them and just lining them up.

This.

Or almost, anyway. The process I use in PP goes something like this:
1. New document. Resize it to A4 (because for some reason PP defaults to on-screen slideshow, and I haven't been able to change that default).
2. Insert a square in the document.
3. Resize the square to 25 x 25 mm (for a Medium critter) and change the border to 3 pt or something like that.
4. Change the square's fill style to "image" and select the right one - usually from CCD, but sometimes I use pictures from other sources I have prepared ahead of time in IrfanView (by proper cropping).
5 (optional). Add a number to the square, and fiddle with it so it's in a reasonable size (14-ish points) and in one of the square's corners.
6. Copy-paste the square as many times as needed and repeat relevant parts of the process. It takes less work to copy-paste a square and then change the picture than it takes to make new squares for new critters from scratch.

Oh, and I have PP set to "snap to object" rather than "snap to grid". That way I can fix the squares so they fit snugly on the sheet I print, which means less work when cutting them out.