Output and Printing Issues

  1. How do I get the character sheets to only print out the skills my character has?

    There is a list box in the lower right hand corner of the Skills tab that determines which skills show up on the character sheet (called "Include skills").

  2. I try to preview a character or bring up the Doc, and nothing happens.

    Since PCGen is cross-platform it's hard to assume what browser you're using. Click on the menu item Settings->Preferences and a dialog box will appear.

    One of the options under Locations is to set your Browser Path, just navigate to the executable of your favourite browser.

  3. I click on the print icon and get a warning about missing files.

    The pdf_new.zip library is required if you want to print directly from PCGen - otherwise you can view the files in your browser or adobe acrobat (pdf files) and print from there. The pdf_new.zip file is located here, unzip it into the lib subdirectory where you installed PCGen. Then you'll need to re-launch PCGen for it to find it properly.

  4. Does PCGen support any command line exporting functionality?

    For this to work you must have the 'Load Campaign Data with character' box checked and type the following all on one line.

    java -Dpcgen.templatefile=C:\Pcgen\outputsheets\d20\fantasy\htmlxml\csheet_fantasy_std.htm -Dpcgen.inputfile=C:\Pcgen\characters\aaa.pcg -Dpcgen.outputfile=C:\Pcgen\characters\aaa.htm -jar pcgen.jar


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