Downloads

Treasure, including the Treasure Graphics Pack, is available from any of the pages with download links in the sidebar. The Installer version puts a bookmark straight to Treasure on your desktop. The PDF version is a 50Mb download, so using SaveLinkAs to download is much quicker than clicking through and loading the whole PDF off the Net.

The vector images are all stored within the ZIP and EXE versions, as PDF files.

Versions

While it is an advantage to be able to update Treasure frequently, this presents a bit of a problem when it comes to updating players' personal, embedded content. Putting custom content into a different colour, e.g. a dark blue, and then copying and pasting the custom content into new versions offers one approach.

Alternatively, players can put links out to their own custom content and simply copy the links into new versions of Treasure.

Delaying updates between major version changes can also help. For example, the number of changes between Version 1.0 and Version 1.03 are minimal; while the changes between Version 1.0 and Version 1.4 definitely justify transferring your content. 

Fonts

Treasure looks at its best with Microsoft's FREE Vista Fonts installed. We are using these fonts because they display well both on screen and in print. The benefits of the fonts are discussed here and the fonts are available from here.

Software

There are a number of open source software applications that are likely to be useful to players:

Inkscape

Treasure's Graphics Pack stores files as Scalable Vector Graphics, (SVG), because vector graphics are compact and can be resized without any loss of image quality. This makes our files ideally suited for putting or pulling together your own character designs, packs of cards and dungeon layouts. SVG files (.svg) can be edited in software including CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator but these packages are expensive. Inkscape offers a free alternative that uses SVG as its native format.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice provides a free alternative to expensive office suites such as Microsoft Office. Apart from providing the usual applications, OpenOffice also allows saving and printing to PDF files. It is possible to import SVG files into OpenOffice but full support for this feature is currently work in progress. At present it is possible to import SVG files into OpenOffice by installing a filter and ensuring that your system's Java is up-to-date.

Nvu

Making your own web pages without any complications calls for a WYSIWYG web editor. Nvu is free, open source software that allows anyone to edit web pages with ease. Just remember to set up the correct >Tools >Preferences to stick to the correct document type, (xHTML 1.1 Transitional) and, most importantly, to prevent Nvu from automatically altering your code when you save or exit.