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そるのめ
Level: 244

Heya, Soru found it useful for her learning to print the generated crosswords and then fill them in with a pen!


Unfortunately, the generating a pdf of the crossword seems to have some issues:

First, hints are *always* kanji->kana, never english->kana. It would be nice to have a setting for it!

Second, the crossword itself only gets resized to fit height, not width, resulting in crosswords being cut off:

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Third, even if the entire crossword fits the page, the boxes get *tiny*:

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Here are sorus suggestions:

  • Print the hints and crossword seperately!
  • Auto-rotate the crossword 90° if needed as soon as the aspect ratio of width:height is > 1
  • Some way to say if you want english or kanji hints (or both?)

Thank you so much for making renshuu, it's been amazing so far!

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マイコー
Level: 300

Unfortunately, I will probably not be able to make these changes. Formatting a puzzle for pdf is a ton of tedious work, which is why it is so buggy.

Particularly, with the hints, English is not offered because it simply won't fit. PDFs are unlike html (webpages) where you can make rules that help guide text if there is too much, sizing, alignment, etc., but pdfs are more or less fixed in place, so adding in all the extra code to handle the huge variation in definition lengths, puzzle shapes, etc. is simply beyond what I can do in terms of time availability.

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そるのめ
Level: 244

Would it be possible to help out to do this on the programming side of things? Soru has worked with pdf generation before and is thus aware of the quirks it comes with.

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マイコー
Level: 300

Not at the moment, but I'll keep the offer in mind if I feel it's possible to "extract" the pdf generation section (which is using a php pdf gen library that must be a million years old).

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