On 10/27/2002 6:59 PM, GREG EASTHOM wrote to JOHN WILSON:


-> JW> -> Just how big are the pictures going to be, anyway?
-> 
-> JW> Small...
-> 
-> JW> My program now consists of the cards...lectures on the Kaballah,
-> 
-> Do you have the cards on disk yet?

No...I'm still text bound :-)

-> Which of the thousands of decks are you planning on using?
-> 
The Crowley deck...

-> Will you be using a standard 10 or 11-card Celtic cross, or the
-> Kaballah's "Tree of Life", with its 10 cards and 22 paths?
->
The 11 card Celtic cross for the reading...
The "Tree of life" in explanatory modules...
The explanations devolve on the adjoining sepheroth.

 
-> Do you want the cards to overlap (C cross) and be reversible?
->
I don't use want or need reversals...(There's always yin in that yang :-)
  
And (to the question) No, Each card I want to display...with rolling
text to the side or underneith...


-> After I found out I could make PaintShop convert 16-color GIFs (screen
-> caps of the whole deck from MS Solitaire) into a sorta human-readable
-> format (Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript), I scribbled a couple of QB
-> progs to quickly convert the resulting files into that
"easy-use" format
-> I mentioned earlier. That was AFTER I wrote an editor where I could
-> manually draw and save a card.
-> 
Holy cow. I AM impressed. 

(And about a thousand miles behind...

I'm still enmired in writing the text (that appears slooowly :-)

I'm just catching on (after 35 years!) as to how the thing works...:-)

And you are the first knowledgable person I've communicated with
'bout the cards...

I'll look into Paintshop...(gotta learn about scanners...
got one? Have a preference?)

Regards...






Cheers....


 

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