Re: Ship Control Cards

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Paul Lesack wrote:

> pdf would be great. The reader is free, and you can still read
> pdf file with Illustrator. The files are relatively small, and,
> better still, cross-platform.

pdf = Adobe Acrobat files...took me a minute to figure that one... (for
those who don't know: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/ will net you a free
Acrobat Reader. Some useful stuff exists in pdf format...US Army FMs and
NATO docs, for one...)

Either pdf or gif/jpg for the cards would be ok.

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> 
> Paul
> 
> Keith Watt wrote:
> > 
> > At the con a few people asked me for the files I used to create the
ship
> > control cards I was using for my ships (collectable-card format ship
> > status displays).  I did them in Adobe Illustrator and will upload
to the
> > Solar Thrust site some templates along with the ships I made for
Solar
> > Thrust, but I realize not everyone can read AI-format files.  Is
there a
> > preference for a second file format? Illustrator can export to a
large
> > number of formats.	The obvious candidates (to me) seem to be eps,
pdf, or
> > jpg/gif.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks..
> > Keith
> > 
> > kwatt@astro.umd.edu
> > Univ. of Maryland Astronomy
>