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karamazovnew · 07-31-09, 05:56 AM

Damn, where would I be without this tutorial?

Well, still, manually figuring out the pixel positions in the Zone and Pos line would take ages, but I've just finished a small table in Excel that does all that work for me

. I just plug in the ItemId, width and height, the Parent Id, the positioning ParentId(as it can be different from the true parent), the X and Y ponders and the offsets (yeap, only those...

few right?). Then it gererates the position values in both lines. Right now I'm just moving things around to get used to it, but after that, once I start making new items I guess I'll need to figure out how the crop lines can be automated. To be honest, I'd love to have a small macro that analyses the file and makes a table of all the items in a page but that's beyond me. I'll post the table after I make it a bit more useful.

07-31-09, 05:56 AM	#29
karamazovnew The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 1,403 Downloads: 151 Uploads: 0	Damn, where would I be without this tutorial? Well, still, manually figuring out the pixel positions in the Zone and Pos line would take ages, but I've just finished a small table in Excel that does all that work for me . I just plug in the ItemId, width and height, the Parent Id, the positioning ParentId(as it can be different from the true parent), the X and Y ponders and the offsets (yeap, only those... few right?). Then it gererates the position values in both lines. Right now I'm just moving things around to get used to it, but after that, once I start making new items I guess I'll need to figure out how the crop lines can be automated. To be honest, I'd love to have a small macro that analyses the file and makes a table of all the items in a page but that's beyond me. I'll post the table after I make it a bit more useful.