CardGenerator documentation

This cli program generates playing-cards from the minimal amount of resources:

• card background image (refered here as base-card)
• at least one base font file
• your illustrations for the cards

Directory names

Each directory in the resources dir is a seperate colour. You can have as many colours as you wish.

For example:

The directories blue, red, some_other_name will all be interpreted as different colours.

Inside these directories you put your card images (see 'File names' for that)

File names

Colour-specific files

These are files inside the colour directories (such as ./blue/, ./red/). You can put your own illustrations on here, that will be placed onto the middle of your finished card.

Simply name them, what you want the card to say at the end.

For example:

A file called Ace.png will have Ace written in each cornor of the card. This makes silly stuff like config files for every card obsolete!

"Global" files

These include your standard stuff, like the base card, fonts, etc.

File names have to be as is, otherwise the program gets confused, and that is not nice towards the program...

Reserved file names:

• base_card.png
• font.ttf / font.otf

Each colours' base card and/or font can be overridden. Just add a .[colour name] between the identifier (base_card) and the file extention (.png) -> base_card.red.png.

This will override the base card for every red card!

The same works with font files -> font.red.ttf

Detailed documentation on usage

For a more detailed deocumentation on usage, please refer to the README on github