Strange Eons 3

User manual contents

  1. What’s new in the latest version?
    1. Release notes
  2. Getting started
    1. Welcome and quick start guide
    2. Installation on Windows
    3. Installation on macOS
    4. Installation on Linux
    5. Installation on Chromebooks
    6. Installation on other platforms
    7. Choosing language settings
  3. App basics
    1. Overview of the app interface
    2. Main menu commands
    3. Document tab management
    4. Using and customizing the context bar
    5. Preferences
  4. Plug-ins
    1. Plug-in essentials
    2. Downloading and installing plug-ins
    3. Managing installed plug-ins
    4. Relaunching the application
    5. Managing update notifications
    6. “eons cat” links (sharing plug-ins easily on social media)
  5. Editing game components
    1. Creating a new game component
    2. Preview area
    3. Markup text
    4. Portraits
    5. Tints
    6. Expansion symbols
    7. Cloud fonts
    8. Spelling checking
    9. Thesaurus and other language tools
    10. Using abbreviations to work efficiently
    11. Printing components
    12. Exporting images
    13. Converting components
    14. Play testing and improving your designs
    15. The marker and token editor
  6. Card decks and game boards
    1. The deck editor
    2. Adding content to a deck
    3. Creating decks
    4. Creating boards
    5. Creating fold-up boxes (tuck boxes)
    6. Editing commands
    7. Pages and paper size
    8. Splitting large pages when printing
    9. Publisher’s marks (crop, fold marks) and bleed margins
    10. Object snapping
    11. Tips for sharing decks
    12. Tips for printing, assembling, and integrating components
  7. Scaling up to large projects
    1. Projects
    2. Deck of Cards tasks
    3. Documentation tasks
    4. Factory tasks
    5. Plug-in tasks
    6. Generic tasks
    7. Searching projects
    8. Automation scripts
    9. Making cards from a speadsheet (CSV data)
    10. Bulk exporting to image files
    11. Supported project file types
  8. Moving and updating settings
    1. Locating, resetting, or transferring settings and other user data
    2. Upgrading from Strange Eons 1 or 2
  9. Advanced configuration options
    1. Command line options
    2. Portable installations
    3. Running a script from the command line
  10. Troubleshooting
    1. Strange Eons won’t start
    2. Can’t download plug-in catalogue
    3. Plug-in errors or warnings
    4. Drawing or graphics issues
    5. Not enough memory errors
    6. Investigating and reporting other errors