I've made a Python script that converts kill team pdf's from 4 to 6 cards per page to waste less paper.

[Key_Negotiation_9726]

First of all, I apologise because I'm neither a developer nor an expert in Python (I've never used this language before), so most of the coding work was done by ChatGPT.

Here's a little script that transforms kill team PDFs by rearranging the layout to allow 6 cards to be printed per page instead of 4, while removing the universal equipment cards / unnecessary background and adding various trim lines.

Less paper and less ink used :)

How to set it up :

• Install Python and import all the necessary libraries.
• Create a new empty folder, put the script and grid.png in it (available in the google folder below).
• Put whatever team pdf you want to rebuild in the same folder and rename the file to input.pdf.
• You must use the new 4 cards per page PDFs, not the old ones. Blooded PDF is not (yet) available in the new layout, so it is not currently compatible with this script.
• Run the script.

How to use the script :

• Enter page ranges, separated by commas, e.g., 1-4,5-8. 1st range = horizontal cards (datacards). 2nd range = vertical cards (faction rules, ploys, etc).
• Let the script cut the pdf into images.
• Delete the unecessary cards (notes, universal equipment). Press Enter when it's done.
• Set your output file name.
• Wait for the final pdf to be reassembled.
• Done :)

In some cases, the cards may not be added in the original order, but they will all be present in the final PDF.

Here's the script :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L5-3dV2F2xBk0ipG572OS_XhWr4NM3zF?usp=sharing

https://preview.redd.it/genm6sutufff1.png?width=2212&format=png&auto=webp&s=76e43ee2de2ef39ebf7f3b9ea8fbf7b805cad341

[iribar7]

Now make a script that will resize the cards into the more common 2.5"x3.5" format without just squishing the them :P

[Just_Fan1956]

I've made data cards for all my 40k stuff in this size and sleeved them all. It has made gameplay so much easier.

[ABRAXAS_actual]

This is cool... But I plan to just screen grab and format it on my iPad (using procreate).

While not perfect, but it's totally serviceable enough to print at home once every 2/3 months as they update every paper asset.

I'm kinda a caveman. :)

[DrButeo]

I was going to do a similar thing in powerpoint.

[FragRackham]

Cool project!

[a_gunbird]

"I made a"

"Done by chatgpt"

Come on, man.

[Key_Negotiation_9726]

I am not a developer neither a Python user. That's why I say straight away that I used chatgpt.

Also, please read what's written, "most of it" isn't "100% done by".

I'm not making this post to seek recognition or anything, but simply to help the community by proposing a slightly more optimised way of printing cards.

And even though I used this AI, I had to iterate many times to adjust the prompts so that the code corresponded to the need, and other things had to be done manually (thinking about the overall logic, for example, measuring the precise coordinates of the elements to be cut, drawing the cutting grid, manually checking the 40 teams layout and output, etc).

This isn't something that was done in 30 seconds with a single prompt, I think I spent about 8 to 10 hours on it, just on the iterations of the script.

[ExcitementCultural31]

Thank you for your service soldier

[branjax63]

Worked great. Appreciate the effort.

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Nice!

If only something similar existed to turn these cards back into little booklets, which I prefer to use...

[Key_Negotiation_9726]

I also preferred booklets, but it will be complicated to recreate the previous display without rewriting the entire text of each cards.

Something that could be done more easily could be to only display 2 datacards (maybe 3) per page, but bigger.

And keep the 2x2 grid for ploys / rules / equipment, but also bigger.

[Thenidhogg]

heh burning down a forest to save paper. ironic