How to Lay Out a Card Template - Dining Table Print & Play

[@saidarahaasayyangalam3445]

This is exactly what I've been looking for and stumbled upon by chance. I've followed every bit of this tutorial and put that into my card game making process. Thank you so much!

[@GameMakersGuild]

Sir, you are amazing. Thank you for re-uploading the file. Huge respect for you, I really appreciate it.

[@garyliu5632]

Thank you. I learned, printed, and played with friends. Very useful tutorial!

[@emperorethan2713]

Thanks for this, it is immensely helpful. I'm prototyping my first game right now, and this is saving me so much time

[@clairerosewarne4681]

Thanks for this very clear video. I watched your card making video a few weeks ago and have adopted your technique there which works so well but have been yet to find any pnp cards with a gutter fold but I am confident that I can now do these myself!

[@atahanacik365]

All the download links earlier than 2020 is broken and none of the template links are working, just for your information 😇

[@NetOrca91]

I cannot find these layouts within my inkscape program.

[@24Monty24]

it's not an inkscape template. save the file from his website (in the description) and open that in inkscape

[@OverlordDrakow]

Heya, many thanks for the video. I am trying to create a multi-page document using this template, but when I duplicate a page, I just get a blank page without any of the template layers. Is there a way to duplicate the original template page exactly as it is?

[@liamrichards9136]

Thank you for this tutorial. It was very helpful. The link to the templates in the description doesn't work, is there anywhere I can get the templates? Thank you.

[@DiningTablePrintPlay]

The templates can be downloaded from www.diningtablepnp.com/ (My previous hosting provider jacked their prices up by a ridiculous amount and simultaneously broke access to database backups so it would have been a pain to restore the site as it was - so I'm taking the opportunity to rebuild the site, it's just a time-consuming project and I don't have much time at the moment, so for now I've linked the important stuff on a single page.)

[@joecosier22]

Now my issue is that it only prints the top left image and the template but all the other images are blank. I have tried downloading a new copy of the template as well as reinstalling inkscape but still get the same thing...

[@GameMakersGuild]

Good afternoon, @Dining Table Print & Play. May I ask if it is possible to upload the templates again for this video? Thank you for the reply

[@dreamleaf6784]

thank you so much for this tutorial. I'm working on making some cards for heroquest. and this will make them so much better! and thanks for the template!

[@elizabethcassidy9276]

Does anyone know how you could change the template to fit cards which are longer than the general size (e.g. Gwent cards)?

[@joecosier22]

I have been following this tutorial and finally got it to cooperate. Now my issue is the cards print out all jacked up. I tried saving as a PDF and printing that way but 2 of the edges get cut off. Any solutions?

[@eugeniomariopazielli8478]

You are of great help, there is nothing more to say. Thank you

[@davidv6950]

I followed everystep you did on this video and when i went to print out the page it only prints the Template. Any help would be appreciated

[@sparks3705]

Do you know of anyone who sells a die to cut out the gutterfold cards 4 at a time? I can only find single card dies. Please help!

[@spaceytraveller3100]

I tried to make a similar temp for a 3x3 grid, i cannot get cropmarks on the corners of all 9, and if i try it on one card only it automatically removes the ones one the corners that i had. I would like to have it for every card. How did you make that? Also i try to add bleedmarks, but nothing pops up at all

[@DiningTablePrintPlay]

I don't know which software in particular you're using - Inkscape? - but it shouldn't actually be removing anything on its own at all. Most likely something else is happening, perhaps one of: - You have the corner selected and it's showing you the outline, but when you lose the selection because you add another corner later, it no longer draws visibly (perhaps it's got no stroke colour, or it's too small to see without zooming in) - Your corners are all still there, but the crop marks are behind another element so you can't see them - You're actually cutting and pasting, or moving the same corner around each time? The overall approach I took to make the template in the first place was to create a rectangle with the correct size for a single card, then use the alignment snapping tools to line several copies of it up together; then lock that layer so I couldn't move anything and create a new layer above that one, using the alignment snapping tools to draw the crop marks up to the corners of the card shapes; then lock that layer and create a new layer below everything, drawing big coloured rectangles to serve as bleed colour. A similar approach should work for more or less any layout of card shapes, really - good luck!

[@adambowe2359]

So this is probably just my lack of tech savviness but the links to the svg files just seem to open another page showing the template. I cannot find how to actually download the file. Any help would be apreciated. .

[@DiningTablePrintPlay]

What's happening is that your browser is loading the SVG file and showing it to you, in the same way that sometimes you'll open a link to a PDF and just see the PDF in your browser. Once you have the SVG open you should be able to hit Ctrl-S in most browsers (I believe Command-S on Mac, but it's been a while) to save it - or you could right-click somewhere on the template and choose 'Save' from there.

[@ToxicatedLum]

the svg template does not download properly? you click and it opens the image but not a download - managed to download it via googling the key words though

[@JakeStaines]

That's down to your browser, I'm afraid - once the image is open you should be able to save the open document, and if you prefer you should usually be able to right-click on the link (or press-and-hold on mobile) and choose to save the link target. It's opening the image because an SVG file basically is just an image, and the browser understands how to show it so that's what it does. I guess the InkScape devs chose to use SVG as their main format so as to be as interoperable as possible but it has the side-effect of there not being an obvious "InkScape Document" file type to distribute that might be treated differently by browsers.

[@tonikenner9093]

I have my own art work will this work? When I put my art work into a template is takes my art away from the sides ? Help please

[@Chug_a_Lug]

Thanks for sharing this!! It really helped me out :)

[@DenisePoole-Closet-Crafts]

This was very helpful. Thank you for sharing, very much appreciated.

[@jas8104]

You don't show how to get to the folder with the '4 card template'?

[@jaccirodgers8477]

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial! I downloaded Inkscape but I can't locate an SVG template. Ideas?

[@24Monty24]

see the link to the templates in the video description

[@joecosier22]

How difficult is it to resize the card size on the template? Is it better to just create a new one for the different size cards?

[@suyanm.s.6742]

Thanks. I was how to make more easy to get into cards info for my art therapy and mandala therapy.

[@chrisofrays]

what size are these cards? i need to get the right sleeves

[@DiningTablePrintPlay]

These are "Poker size" cards, for which you can use normal 66x91mm sleeves, as used for Magic cards. When I sleeve these I use UltraPro "Standard", and that gives a good fit. (Specifically these are "Euro Poker", which is 63x88mm, which is within a millimetre of but not exactly the same as "US Poker", which is 2.5x3.5". Both sizes of card fit fine in the same sleeves, though. You'll find a mix of the two in gaming; IIRC M:tG cards are Euro Poker, and a lot of board games are US Poker.)

[@kazreij]

Just… Thank you for this video. Superb!

[@taganbayev]

how to download this template?

[@8Keep]

Can you make templates for smaller card sizes?

[@jamessimpson7690]

cannot find this template.. I tried to open new from template but the options aren't there.. HaLP

[@jamessimpson7690]

Disregard, found the answer in the comments below. awesome video thanks to all!

[@kosterix123]

dude this is fantastic!

[@침침-y1g]

What is the paper name that you use??

[@tonikenner9093]

Can I do this in Canva?

[@segensage8134]

im really struggling with trying to just figure out how to measure and layout the template manually because i have a drawing app... and i got really excited about this turtorial and he even sounded like he was gonna tell u literally "how to lay it out" but hes using a template thats kinda made already from a place u needa get it from already called ink scape. what the. heck man lol. i jus need dimensions. or help on how to make them. this is frustrating and this vid jus made it more frustrating bc it didnt deliver what i thought it would.

[@NKAYWHY]

My wife show me how to use parchment paper and her cricut light pad after applying Spray glue to make alignment easier.

[@LaszloBok]

This is an excellent video. Thanks.

[@thehiddenhaven5486]

I'm doing the steps at 18:41, but when i paste my card onto the template, the image ends up being behind the white card squares instead of in front and visible. How would i remedy this?

[@JakeStaines]

Check you're on the right layer. Open the Layers palette (Layer -> Layers) and if you're using the template I put together, there should be a layer for 'Artwork', IIRC. Click on that before pasting your images to make sure they end up in the right place. If you're doing your own template, you might create a new layer above everything else to make sure the images show on top.

[@thehiddenhaven5486]

@@JakeStaines Wonderful! I got it. Thank you very much.

[@ayrtonauman9435]

do you print it at 100%?

[@dalsoo1821]

the template is not available

[@ariannaspaudo]

Can this be used with illustrator too?

[@DiningTablePrintPlay]

I use Illustrator myself most of the time, I just did the video with Inkscape because it's more accessible. If anything it's an easier job in Illustrator because you can turn on Smart Guides and have the cards more or less snap perfectly into place, if you have card faces from another file with no bleed! If you check the video description there's a link to the DTPnP site which has both Illustrator (AI) and Inkscape (SVG) templates.

[@ariannaspaudo]

@@DiningTablePrintPlay Thanks a lot!

[@ektopia]

Fascinating vid. Thanks

[@ghitapaints91]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@UNeed2Sm1le]

How do we get them to print? I keep getting a run microsoft visual c++ runtime error

[@tribesofdieutcg2672]

Thank you for you work!!!!

[@dominiquedominiquepresents3291]

Thanks

[@dominiquedominiquepresents3291]

💎💎💎💎💎

[@bordensmusic]

cannot download for mac. why does mac suck at everything

[@bigdoubleu117]

Because they're expensive, easily breakable, and quickly out of date. Just get someone to build or build a PC yourself, it'll cost about the same as a Mac and you'll get more for your money. Think of it like this, What happens when the Mac is out of date? You have to replace the whole thing. What happens when a PC is out of date? You replace the part that's out of date without needing to buy a whole new computer. Your comment was a year ago, but if you haven't switched over yet, maybe I can save you some money still.

[@bakunfase8672]

Lol I’m using my 2012 MacBook Air to do this tutorial. You couldn’t be more wrong

[@cooltechandmore]

horrible instructions, no such templates when i downloaded

[@StyleTechnique]

Thank you so much for this video and all other!