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I really love this concept and it looks really well executed. One thing I think would be really slick would be to live update the template as you pair columns with locations on the card, using the first row from the CSV for content in the preview

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Thank you!

That feature is definitely on the short list, we have lots to do in terms of surfacing the data in the designs in a more "live" fashion.

I'd like to see special symbols rendered in the text flow - e.g. power points icon with a number superimposed. Like "The flug hit you for <hiticon>5</hiticon> pts damage"

Guaranteed to happen.

Hard in gimp - text layout is not directly available as a method separate from fonts. And fonts cant do color in Gimp. So have to parse text, look for tags, insert icons, do your own word wrap etc. All in Lisp. Yuck.

How do you plan on doing the manufacturing?

Manufacturing is out of scope for this product, at current. It is firmly a prototyping tool, not a production tool. The idea is to make it trivial for designers to iterate so they will do more of it. More iterations means better games, faster, and we all win.

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