asl-cards/README.md

# ASL Cards

If you're a fan of [ASL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Squad_Leader), then Chris Edward's [ASL Cards](http://aslcards.com) are a useful play tool. He provides PDF's with data cards for every AFV and Gun in the system, which are handy to reference as you play a scenario.

However, unless you print them out, it's difficult to quickly switch between the ones you want, so I wrote this program that lets you pick out the ones you want, with a tabbed viewer that lets you quickly flip between them.

### Analyzing the PDF files
<img src="doc/analyze-files.png" style="width:300px;float:left;margin-right:10px;">The first time you run the program, it needs to analyze the PDF files, to extract each data card (this only needs to be done once).
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Simply point to the directory where the files live, and click Analyze. This process can take some time to run, ~5-10 minutes at the lowest resolution, ~1 hour at the highest.

### Selecting cards
<img src="doc/add-card.png" style="width:300px;float:left;margin-right:10px;">Once the files have been analyzed, you can pick out the cards you want.
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<img src="doc/view-cards.png" style="width:300px;float:left;margin-right:10px;">The cards are now easily accessible as you play the scenario.
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