More editing on the iPad

Diagrams done for the coastal raids section - definitely wishing Pages would support the Apple Pencil as a selection tool, as my fat fingers aren’t ideal for picking out the different parts of an arrow with a text box on top :D On the good side, Pixelmator for iPad does support the Pencil, and at £4.99 it’s a pretty useful addition to my iPad editing arsenal for pixel graphics. Just need to find a better vector/diagramming app than the graphics tools in Pages and I can probably ditch the Mac Book on vacations (I even managed to fix some code for the Cricketer’s score feed on the iPad).

Off to Minneapolis tomorrow: don’t know how much I’ll get done, but I do have some background Dux reading loaded up on the Kindle app for the flight.

Mike 1 Internet 0 - eventually (and more Compendium)

Finished the write up for the other main Raid scenario last night - that will definitely need some playtesting and tweaking when I get home to determine exactly how many units get how much head start. Discovered while doing so that drawing diagrams in Pages on an iPad is tricky - would be really nice if it let me use the Apple Pencil as a more precise finger, but annoyingly it won’t.

The internet here is really dreadful - it took me most of an hour to persuade it to download my Dropbox copy of the core Dux rules onto the iPad, and I couldn’t get to Blogger at all last night!

Anyway - today, the extra Raids page :D

Things not to do while jet lagged...

1. Set up Anne’s new iPad.
2. Finish installing fonts for the Dux Compendium on my iPad 

The former was made markedly harder by Apple’s iCloud sync getting very confused, followed by me getting very confused and doing things on the wrong iPad (despite several ‘are you REALLY sure?’ prompts...)

The latter, well let’s just say that iFonts may be free, but you get what you pay for. Mission accomplished in the end but gave up on computers after that, so you get this post a day late. :)

Editing on the move...

Since I'm off to the States shortly, today's hobby effort has been setting up the iPad so I can work on the plane - while I am taking a laptop, it's a 15" MacBook, and they're a bit unwieldy, to say the least, on the tray table in an economy class seat :D

Fortunately, the master copy of the Dux Compendium is in Apple's Pages, for which Apple do an iPad version which is pretty much compatible. What I didn't know until I checked just now is you can install fonts on the iPad for Pages etc, which is very useful - except for the fact that it's taken me a while to remember what fonts I needed!