Your experiences with Counter Collection Digital v2.0 GOLD

[Grimstaff]

Can you arrange your desired number and type of counters on each printed sheet, or are you just printing them out the same as they come in the print version?

FOr instance, can I print out a sheet with just 5 monks and a gorgon, or do I have to print both entire sheets they appear on?


Edit: P.S.> I own the first two print versions of these and love 'em, but stopped buying them when they stopped coming pre-perforated.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

Allow me to clarify. Each of the counters is an individual image. You do not need a graphic application to create a custom sheet for printing. As I stated above, I use MS Word with a grid and place the tokens in there. Once you've place a token in there and set the properties, you can copy and paste that one as many times as you like.

Again, they are not PDFs. This product is a CD-ROM of individual image files organized into folders and subfolders based on creature type.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

I'd been considering Digital for a while and I had a difficult time finding the exact features of the program or whether it was simply a collection of PDFs on CD like the Dragon Archive. I finally read something to the nature of Digital not having the in-software capability of designing your own page, arranging only the counters you want to print, and that you have to use another program like Photoshop for that.

Well, that was the only reason I wanted Digital in the first place. So I bought the Gold PDF with Summoned Creatures and saved myself $20.

For $25 you could have had a huge collection of thousands of counters and used a simple word processing application to print your own custom sheets with any number of a specific counter you wanted.

 

[JustKim]

Can you arrange your desired number and type of counters on each printed sheet, or are you just printing them out the same as they come in the print version?

FOr instance, can I print out a sheet with just 5 monks and a gorgon, or do I have to print both entire sheets they appear on?

This is what I was saying, according to what I read, Digital does not have its own capacity to arrange counters into the exact page you want to print. You have to copy and grid the counters into another program yourself.

And if you have the PDF copy, you can do this anyway because each counter is its own object. So for me it was a no-brainer to go with Gold and Summoned Monsters for a lot less money.

 

[JustKim]

You do not need a graphic application to create a custom sheet for printing. As I stated above, I use MS Word

This is misleading. What you're saying is that you don't need an art program, just a program that can act in the capacity of an art program. MS Paint comes free with Windows, and there are more sophisticated art programs out there for free, so the problem is really not that someone might not have an art program. The problem is that Digital does not include software to do what you want, you must use another program to accomplish it.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

And if you have the PDF copy, you can do this anyway because each counter is its own object. So for me it was a no-brainer to go with Gold and Summoned Monsters for a lot less money.

I'm not following how you are able to create a custom sheet of counters with a PDF of premade sheets.

Also, you get 2,000 counters with Gold Digital 2.0 rather than the 350 with the PDF Gold.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

This is misleading. What you're saying is that you don't need an art program, just a program that can act in the capacity of an art program. MS Paint comes free with Windows, and there are more sophisticated art programs out there for free, so the problem is really not that someone might not have an art program. The problem is that Digital does not include software to do what you want, you must use another program to accomplish it.

You're correct, but it's not nearly as misleading as saying you need something like Photoshop.

As an aside, you could use something like Google Docs to arrange and print your custom sheets.

 

[JustKim]

I'm not following how you are able to create a custom sheet of counters with a PDF of premade sheets.

You click on any counter in the PDF and copy it, then paste it to Photoshop or MS Word or whatever you're using. It works almost exactly the same as it would if you were using Digital, and you save quite a lot of money.

Also, you get 2,000 counters with Gold Digital 2.0 rather than the 350 with the PDF Gold.

I bought Gold and Summoned Monsters together for about $10. Together it was about 1,000 counters.

You're correct, but it's not nearly as misleading as saying you need something like Photoshop.

It was really not my intention to imply that Photoshop is required when I said you need "another program like Photoshop". It's just a brand most people are familiar with.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

I guess I see the extra value of the Digital version in that the images are higher resolution than they are if you copy and paste from a PDF. Additionally, I can place them in TokenTool or MapTool more easily than from a PDF since I can cut out the middle step of having to place it in an image editor and save it as an image file first.

Basically, I think the CD-ROM of 2,000 images that are ready for whatever use I need to be much more flexible than working with a PDF in Adobe Reader.

 

[Wolfspider]

Thanks for all the info.

I have one question though. If I order this product online as I intend to, and it's just a collection of image files, why would I need to burn it to a CD in order to use it?

Thanks again!