Changelogs

• Image fine-tuning sliders are now hidden on Firefox, they were quietly breaking the PDF export

I really wanted to keep the sliders working everywhere, but with its latest update and without warning anyone Firefox started messing up the printed output and there's nothing I can do about it on my side, so for now they're gone there. That said, Firefox stays the most accurate browser when it comes to respecting the declared element sizes in print

• New experimental color mode: card frames, attributes and spell/trap types and images are all colored
• New grayscale toggle to fine-tune how images look when printed

I know the whole point of this site is saving ink, but a few people kept asking, and apparently full-color proxy printing is more common and more requested than I'd guessed (I figured everyone had moved to black-and-white laser printers by now), so here's a first experimental pass, expect rough edges and tell me what looks off, I'm still poking at it

• Print on Letter paper instead of A4, picked automatically for visitors in the US, Canada and parts of Latin America
• The print button now shows which paper size is being used

Some US folks pointed out that they don't actually use A4 over there, Letter is the default in a bunch of countries instead, so I taught the site to pick the right paper for those regions, and now people on the other side of the ocean can print proxies without them coming out the wrong size

• Export your selected deck as a YDKE link to share or open elsewhere
• Paste a YDKE link as a URL parameter and the deck loads automatically

Pulling decklists in instantly is nice, but sometimes they need to go the other way too, exported or shared with other players who want to print them, now that works both ways

• New Ink Savings page showing exactly how much ink this site saves compared to full-color printing and the official Yu-Gi-Oh card style

I kept telling people this site saves ink without actually showing by how much, so I sat down, measured it, and put the numbers on a page where anyone can see the difference

• Full Spanish translation for the site and the card database

Enough Spanish-speaking players reached out asking for their language that ignoring the request started feeling rude, so the whole UI and the card database now speak español

• Typing the exact name of a card now jumps it straight to the top of the results, no more scrolling past lookalikes
• Search ignores accents and special characters, type the name however your keyboard lets you and it just works

Search isn't glamorous but bad search is the fastest way to make people give up, so I quietly kept poking at it until exact matches stopped hiding three rows down and a few accent quirks stopped getting in the way

• New How to Print guide with browser settings, paper tips and the small details that make cards come out the right size

Half the people who had bad prints weren't doing anything wrong, the browser was, so I wrote down everything I learned the hard way about getting a clean print

• Cards with multiple artworks can now be picked individually, choose which version goes into your deck
• Search recognizes alternate artworks too, so you can find a card by whichever version you remember

While importing decklists with cards that have alternate artworks I realized the search was hiding them behind a single result, which is exactly the kind of thing that would drive me crazy as a user, so now they're all there to pick from

• Cards now stick closer to the correct size and element placement on Chrome, before they could come out a couple of millimeters off
• Several Chrome-specific rendering quirks ironed out so the printed page looks more like the preview

Testing on a bunch of computers and browsers I dug into how Chrome handles printing pages, made a few adjustments to push back against its subpixel rounding, but (as I note in the print guide, written later) Firefox is clearly the browser to use if you want the declared measurements to be respected

• The site is live, build a deck and print proxy cards at exact size on A4
• Search any Yu-Gi-Oh card by name and add it to your deck with a click
• Available in English, Italian, French, German and Portuguese from day one

First working version, I printed a whole cube without a hitch and the cards came out at the right size, the draft turned out great. Considering all the work that went into building this it felt wrong to keep the tool to myself, and just using it I'd already started piling up ideas for things I could make better