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Help Me / Re: custom poker chip imagages
« on: May 25, 2008, 11:30:50 PM »
That's interesting.

I have scanned chips in the past, and those came out fine.  I think it works better if you can save the scan as a .gif file; .jpeg files always come out with the white background on them.

I have also done some custom chips and used the files that I created in Photoshop.  I saved those as .gif files too, and now I have images of my custom chips as well.  If you have Photoshop, you can also take your scans and work on them that way (it might also be possible to use Photoshop Express as well, which is free, I think...).

Good Luck.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: May 22, 2008, 10:36:46 PM »
Hi Corey.

Just wanted to let you know that I have tried the new receipt feature, and it does EXACTLY what I would like it to do.  Apparently the changes that you made to how the receipt funtions were right on the money!  I used this feature in our satellite tournament, and everything was perfect.  I'm looking forward to continue using it throughout our next season.

If anyone is in need of kknowing how we are using this feature, please feel free to let me know, and I'll try to help you our as best as I can.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.5 is available
« on: March 09, 2008, 11:50:02 PM »
As always, Corey, thanks again.  I think I can speak for just about everyone here that TD is a godsend to all of us who run tournaments.  I can't imagine doing it without your program.

I'll be downloading immediately.  I've been fiddling with the Beta, so I'm sure it will be great.

Much thanks again!

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: November 21, 2007, 09:19:42 PM »
I sent you my template, sans the barcode and my league logo.  You might need to make some size adjustments to the cell that had the logo; other than that you should be good to go.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: November 19, 2007, 10:09:12 PM »
OK; here's an image of my receipt.  The barcode has an actual function; it contains the player's ID#, the buy in amount, and the receipt number.  Now all I need is for something to read it with... :D

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: November 19, 2007, 09:52:56 PM »
Yeah, OK.  I hear you on that one.  I did the same thing actually, so that's why I was thinking that it would be better to just hand them the receipt card with their table and seat info on it so they wouldn't be asking or wanting to see the seating chart on the screen, etc.

I do have my players trained fairly well, however.   :D  I have a one-week prior-to-tournament deadline in which they need to reserve their seats; otherwise they can't play.  This helps tremendously with the planning, as you might imagine.  I can let the host know exactly how many people are going to be there, so they can plan on the quantity of food/snacks that they will need to provide.  It's great for me as far as knowing beforehand how much equipment I'll need to bring.  If they don't cancel their reservation 24 hrs. before the tournament, then they will need to make good on their buyin anyway.  They also have until the end of the second round in which to arrive, otherwise the same thing, so everyone makes sure they get there on time.  So far everyone has been good with it.

I'll try to get an image of my receipt up soon, and I'll let you know how it works out.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: November 18, 2007, 10:18:20 AM »
Hi Keith.  I just saw your post now...

I do have a small portable thermal receipt printer, but I can't get it to interface with my computer at this time; that's a whole other issue.  I think that if I were able to get that one to work, then I could compensate for the small output, something that I could certainly live with.

In the meantime, I did come up with a receipt template/form that I am happy with (I'll post an image soon).  The only way that I can make it work, though, is to buy everyone in beforehand, but instead of having TD initiate the printing (I don't click the "print receipt" box in the Receipt button in "Preferences"), I just go to the Receipt folder and print them out individually there.  This is the only way that they will print exactly as they appear, without the shrinking or changing of fonts.

I got a cheap HP printer at Target for $30 (it's a printer only, no photo or scanner or anything) and print them out on 4x6 cards.  They look very similar to the receipt cards at the beginning of this post.

I'll be doing this for the first time at our next tournament, which is this coming Saturday, Nov. 24; I'll let you know how it works out.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 23, 2007, 08:14:52 PM »
Aha!

It would appear that your suggestion to use the style "writing-mode: tb-rl" does exactly what I would like it to do.  It rotates the text just fine in that cell, and it prints just like it's supposed to, so that would solve that problem.  Thanks!

Still having a problem with the small printing receipt, though.  I haven't given up yet, and I am still trying a few things.

Thanks again for your help with this.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 22, 2007, 04:38:49 PM »
Again, thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to take a look at these things for me.

I'll try the style suggestion and see if that works.  As for the receipt printing small, I have a couple of thoughts that I'm going to attempt to try and see if they work; otherwise what I think I might wind up doing is pre-seating everyone for my tournaments, then print out all the receipts with table name and seat #s beforehand as well.  As I said before, the receipts will print correctly for me if I approach the Print function from the Receipts directory, rather than from the pop-up Print dialogue when I buy players in.  If I have to do it that way, then so be it.

I'll let you know if I work it out.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 19, 2007, 05:05:52 PM »
Thanks again for your help with this.

I've sent along two versions of my receipt templates to your support email address.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 18, 2007, 07:45:54 PM »
OK....I've been working on this some more.  I did follow your suggestions, Corey, and I made some progress in seeing the text when I added "valign="top".  The only problem with this now was that when I did the text rotation, it expanded the cell horizontally, as if the text were going in the original direction.  Also, the text rotation was only accomplished in the viewer; when I went to Print Preview, it showed the original orientation.  So I guess I'm still not doing something correctly.  I've put this aside for now to continue to work on my receipt template, and for the most part (aside from the text rotation issue), I've got it to where I like it.

Now here's the rub:  I worked on my template file, tweaking it here and there, and finally printed it out directly from the Receipts folder, where TD sends them when they are created at buyin.  When I printed them out from the Receipts folder, I would hit the Print dialogue, and everything was fine.  Then I figured it was time to try it out directly from TD; I did a buyin, hit the Print dialogue that pops up there, but when I hit Print this time, the reciept prints out in a drastically smaller form, about one-quarter the size of the original.  I checked the printer settings, and still the same thing happens, a much smaller version of my receipt is printed.  It also changes my font from Ariel to New Times.

Here's what I did to check it out:

1.  I did another buyin; when the Print dialogue pops up, this time I went directly to the Receipts folder and opened the receipt that was sent there.  I did the print preview, checked my print settings for size and whatnot, pushed print, and all is well.  When I went back to the original Print dialogue, I checked printer settings there (everything seemed to be in place), pushed print, and the small version printed out again.

2.  I changed to receipt template to another version that I made earlier; same story.  Then I went to your default receipt template, and again the same thing.

3.  I repeated this exercise on 3 different printers; everything happens the same.

Am I doing something wrong?  Have you heard of this before, and if so, any suggestions on how to fix it?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(P.S. I don't know of anyone else who is testing out this feature.  If you are, let me know how it's going for you.)

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 09, 2007, 03:38:34 PM »
Thanks so much for your help and prompt reply.  I'll give it a go and see how it comes out.

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Suggestions / Re: Receipts
« on: October 08, 2007, 11:38:28 PM »
Hey Corey.

As always, GREAT work on this entire program!

I've been working on the receipts here and for the most part I am making progress.  I'm trying to do something similar to the example posted previously at the top of this thread.  My question to you is, is there a way to rotate the text in the cell 90 degrees, like it is shown on the left side in the example above?  I'm not too well-versed in HTML, so I have been following your suggestions as well as some tutoring on some websites that I have found, and I couldn't find out how to do that, if it is at all indeed possible.

This is certainly not a priority issue, so if it can't be done in an easy manner, then don't bother.  I was just wondering if there was some easy code that I could attach to the cell to make the text rotate.

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Help Me / Re: Player Seating when down to the Final Table
« on: July 14, 2007, 10:46:55 AM »
My 2cents here....

That's the way that they do it in the casinos that I have played tournaments at.  When we would get to the final table, the draw for seating position is completely randomized, regardless of where the players were sitting before.  So, indeed, you may get hit with a blind twice.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available
« on: June 13, 2007, 08:51:43 PM »
Corey,

As always, many, many thanks to you for your work on this.

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