Marilynx

Just updated to PDN 5.0. Quick and easy. I am using the same computer and monitor I used under PDN 4.x, with Win 10. The same color pallets that I created Back When. I'm trying to do a practice course to train my two new Dachshunds on. I got some different sized bales in, so I'm making a new template. But when creating my bales, what used to be orange is now salmon color. The purple, green, and blue bales have changed, too. I just went and checked an older PDN file and practice course. The colors are as they should be. The pallet appears as it should. But when I tried to use Color Picker to select the old colors, the appearance of the pallet in the old file promptly changed from showing orange to showing salmon. I was going to check to see if the RGB numbers were the same in each file for each color, but can't select the colors in the old file without changing them. The colors are specifically chosen because they come close to balancing the amount of Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan I use when printing a course. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? I attach a new bale showing the salmon color, and a clip of the old bales showing the former color.

This graphing may be useful for several other things, but it's not QUITE what I'm after, since as far as I can tell, you can't do curved parallel lines with it. Will explore it, though, and see if it can do 60 degree angles. Thank you.

Wishing for a parallel lines tool, where I could select something like the line/curve tool, set my widths for the lines and the distance the lines should be apart, and then... draw. I can get there, sorta, by drawing a single line, copying and pasting it, and then nudging it into place next to the first line, but it doesn't always work.

Right. I clicked on it. Nothing happened. I checked the DL folder. Nothing there. Tried another site and had no problem DL a file. I'll try again.... Nope. For some reason, I can't connect to that .DLL. I had no problem DL the updated pack. Okay, I found an admin comment that if you can't DL the .DLL, try right clicking on the link and opening it in a new tab. That worked. Got the .DLL, installed it, and wa able to replicate my Barn Hunt grid with it.

Yeah, I need to do a layer with graph lines under the lettering so I can get it arranged neatly and evenly. This is the first time in 52 years that I've been without a Dachshund. I'm just trying to figure out how to fit in "First Standard Dachshund in the US & Canada to Achieve the RATCHX, RATCHX2, RATCHX3 and RATCHX4." Lotta lettering, not enough space if the lettering is to be big enough to be seen. Here's what I've come up with at this point.

It looks like it might work, but I can't seem to DL it. The link appears active, but when I click on it, nothing happens.

Just installed the new pack and donated. And discovered, to my dismay, that the Grid plug-in, on which I depend for Barn Hunt maps, no longer had the ability to set the width of the line in the grid. I uninstalled the new one. But my old one is missing. I need it. Where can I get the old Grid plugin, and where do I put it?

Thanks all, for the kind words. Harper was special, a one-of-a-kind. He and I shared a birthday, and I always knew that when his time came, it would tear me apart. I just didn't think it would be so soon. Or to such a foul disease. There were 14 other standard Dachshunds who got the Novice title ahead of him -- Barn Hunt didn't come to our area as soon as it did other places. He was the fourth to get the Open title. Harper was the third to get his Senior title. And the second to get the Master title. Harper was the second to become a Barn Hunt Champion. He was the first Standard Dachshund in the US and Canada to get the Barn Hunt Champion Excellent (RATCHX) as well as the RATCHX2, RATCHX3, and RATCHX4. My husband wants a memorial t-shirt, and I want a car magnet -- I have a magnet for each of his titles. Magnet will be 8.7" x 11.5" -- not sure what resolution they use; I've always uploaded a 300 dpi picture. There will be a banner to be displayed at the Hunts where he participated. Banner is likely to be printed at 150 dpi, so 4500 x 7200 (2.5' x 4') I'm playing with designs, but there's too much text . I took his RATCHX4 design and gave a black background. I used Boltbait's Object Outline to make the 4 ratties stand out a little against the black, ditto Badger Rat. But I'm struggling to make this beautiful and informative, mostly because I start crying when I look at his sweet face.

Regulars here know how much Barn Hunt, and my longhaired Dachshund, Harper, mean to me. On New Year's Eve, I lost my Heart and my Soul to an evil disease called Hemangiosarcoma, a blood cancer. We had no clue he was ill. We went out to a Barn Hunt in the morning. He had a good run. We had lunch together, and took a long walk around the Farm. We went in to do his second run, and while we were waiting, I realized something was wrong. I pulled him from his run, and called his vet. She had some suggestions, but by the time we reached our RV, Harper could not stand. I put him back in the car and took him to an emergency vet. Due to Covid, we weren’t allowed to be with him. I handed my poor, frightened, little Boy over to strangers, who took him away – and then called me three hours later to tell me he was dead. My Harper died alone, in a strange place, surrounded by strangers, without so much as a last touch to his sweet head to tell him that if he needed to go, it was okay. So now I need to do the only thing I can for him -- a memorial picture. Harper was the first Standard Dachshund in the US and Canada to achieve the RATCHX, RATCHX2, RATCHX3, and RATCHX4. I'm trying to figure out the most effective way of adding "In Memory of" along with his birth date and death date. If I could figure out how to add the fact that he was first in so many titles, it would be good. This will be going on a largish (8" x 10") magnet for my car, and on t-shirts for Harry and me. There will be a successor. But not just yet. Harper's great-great-nephew may well come to us. But that is a different story. Here's the last title piece I did for him:

FYI, I had a chance (when I finally got on line) to fiddle with this. https://combinepdf.com/ It does precisely what you said it does. It worked very easily, but the weird thing is, it turned all my pages sideways. Haven't found any kind of setting on the website to alter that. Correction: it is NOT a setting on that specific website. This appears to be a PDN issue. My files are 2400 x 3000 in portrait orientation. PDN flips them on their side into landscape orientation to print them. And neither in the site you recommended, nor in Adobe's own site, is there a way to correct this. The PDFs print correctly on a physical printer.

We are very fortunate. When we moved to New Orleans in 1966, my father, a petroleum geologist, took a topo map and studied, and said, "We are locating HERE." "Here" is the west bank of Orleans Parish (county), and some of the highest ground in the area. THe houses here did not flood in Hurricane Betsy (1965), Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricane Gustav (2008), Hurricane Issac (2012), or Hurricane Zeta (2020) or Hurricane Ida (2021). But I cannot say I recommend 150 mph winds. We are fortunate to have the generator!

OK, I think I see what you are saying. I'll have to DL this and play with it. Sorry for the delay in answering. I am in the middle of the Hurricane IDA zone, running on generator power for the last six days, and we likely have at minimum another five days before we will get grid power back. My husband really needs to stop inviting hurricanes to his birthday celebration. My Internet has been spotty, to say the least -- cable modem is down and probable restoration is likely later than the electricity. So my poor phone is being used as a hotspot, but if you have only half a bar of connectivity (because cell towers are down, also), it does not make for a satisfactory online experience, if at all.

It looks interesting. But I'm not trying to do a single picture. I'm trying to do multiple pages of different layers of the same .PDN file as a single PDF file with multiple pages. But thank you.

I use PDN for doing Barn Hunt course for the practices I do. I taught a judge friend how to use it for her trial courses. Now there's dilemma. The way I handle "printing" a course is to start with the base layers in place and the upper layers turned off. Then I print to PDF using CutePDF. Single file. I then click to add the next layers, and print to PDF. Then add the next layers, and again print. This yields 3-5 files per trial course. This works fine for me for my practices. However, if my friend has to submit courses officially, they want them submitted in a single file for each course. And I haven't the faintest idea how to combine pages... and I need to know so I can teach her. Thanks in advance. For reference, this is the type of printout I am doing.

If I have a Mercator Projection Map , I can use Shape 3D to create a nice globe -- and rotate it, and so forth. Is there a way to then take that globe and "unfold" it into a Wintel-Tripel type flat map? (The Winkel Tripel projection is a modified azmiuthal projection. This is, in essence, a globe that is projected onto a flat surface giving it curved lines of latitude and curved meridians. The projection, by Oswald Winkel in 1921 was developed with the goal of minimizing the three kinds of distortion: area, direction and distance. Thus it became the Tripel Projection (German for triple). The projection is neither equal-area nor conformal, its main feature is that all of the parallels are curved except for the straight poles and equator. This gives a lovely spherical feeling to this two dimensional map. https://futuremaps.com/blogs/news/top-10-world-map-projections)

That's actually a good thought. I might also save it as a PNG file, which would allow people who may not (yet) use PDN to use it.

Pixie, That color picker is pretty cool. I will file it. Not sure if it was the same site, but I have used a shades and tints generator to help with several projects, including my Barn Hunt palette. No, what I'm wanting to do is make a palette of DMC colors. But when you have multiple blues, greens, yellow, oranges, reds, purples, etc. of similar hue next to each other, it can be hard to be sure you snagged the right one. I'm going to be doing a project which involves certain specific colors based on DMC. THat's why I was wondering if there was a a plug-in what would yield the names on hover. I know the names can be included in the palette file. Just wondering if they could be called up, as it were.

Out of curiosity, is there a way to add a color name label to a color in a palette, so that when one hovers the pointer over the color, the name comes up? I'm wanting to do a palette with DMC (embroidery floss) colors. These have both numbers and names. It would be much easier to find the color one wants if the name would come up when selecting a color.

Thank you! I hope I can decipher your decipherings!

Oh, that is SO neat! Yeah, I wish it was a PDN plug-in, because I'm not sure how I would get the mountains and things positioned on MY maps. But oh! THat's gonna be fun to play with, regardless! I've been over at Cartographer's Guild, reading and looking for tips -- but most of them use PhotoShop. What I would love is something which could give real topographic appearance, like this, which is a topo map of Ireland swiped from Wikimedia.

Oh. Dear. One of THOSE. In going through some of my .PCX files, I discovered a whole bunch of things that I remember doing, but no longer remember HOW. And cryptic notes to oneself are even worse.

Nicel! I love the map! How did you create those mountains and hills and things? I'm not a DnDer myself, but have plenty of friends who are -- one who even wrote his own game, called Wizard's Realm. (When a group decided to do costumes for a localish convention, I was one of the prime seamstresses for it. And I do maps for my own universe(s). Have you done a tutorial for this kind of map-making that I have missed? I did go looking, but I keep having arguments with the forum search engine. That is SO cool.

Thanks for the update. I am currently going through the 17+ books in the Dragonriders series and pulling geographic descriptions. I'll work from those, the same way the author of the Atlas did, but it will be handy to look at her work. Anne wrote a number of books after the Atlas was published, so I want to find the later additions. My father, a geologist, worked out the geology of the back half of Pern, and also told me that Ista (the island) was likely the Ceylon of Pern, lots of gemstones, rubies, emeralds, sapphire, etc. Anne included that in Dragonsdawn. When I finish pulling my map into PDN, it may get interesting.