No custom knee board pages possible?

[Blooddawn1942]

As the title says. For reasons beyond my knowledge, it is not possible to create custom knee board pages with the knee board builder tool. Never had the issue with any other module. 

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

As the title says. For reasons beyond my knowledge, it is not possible to create custom knee board pages with the knee board builder tool. Never had the issue with any other module. 

 

True, the utility does not seem to properly parse the entry.lua file of the Jeff. As a workaround, I generate the kneeboard using another (unused) aircraft as stand-in, and then afterwards I move the graphics files manually onto the correct kneeboard folder .. not elegant, but works:

 

 

Edited March 2, 2023 by Rudel_chw

[Blooddawn1942]

Do you generate the pages with the kneeboard builder tool? 

So You generate a page for, let's say the Criston Eagle and copy the pages from the Eagles folder into the Jeffs folder? 

[Rudel_chw]

3 hours ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

Do you generate the pages with the kneeboard builder tool? 
 

 

yes, KB does the conversion from PDF to PNG for each page of my document.

 

3 hours ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

So You generate a page for, let's say the Criston Eagle and copy the pages from the Eagles folder into the Jeffs folder? 

 

correct.

[Blooddawn1942]

The workaround was perfect. Thanks for the hint @Rudel_chw

[uboats]

what is the kneeboard builder? maybe it's better to contact the author to fix issue

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, uboats said:

what is the kneeboard builder?

 

It's a great Utility that quickly converts PDF documents onto PNG images appropiate for kneeboard use. It can also inject the images inside MIZ files, useful for placing Briefings onto the kneeboard. This is its website:

https://dcskneeboardbuilder.com/

 

1 hour ago, uboats said:

maybe it's better to contact the author to fix issue

 

Its author is @AlaskanGrizzly, but he no longer has the free time he used to have, so he has been forced to do only minimal maintenance to his KB. For me, I'm just happy that this software still works in spite of all the updates that DCS has had over the years, the issue with the Jeff is not critical and there is a workaround, so I'm still happy with it.

 

Best regards, and looking forward to your next Module