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The Basics

Creating Card Layouts

Specifying Content

Content in CSV Files

Effects

Previewing and Finding Errors

Printing

Exporting for Documentation, Print-on-Demand, and Online Gaming

Text Layout

Item Tags and Hiding Card Items

Styles, Series, and Rotors

Appendices

Switching to the Content Editor

How to convert an existing CSV project to use the Content Editor

1. Open your project file in Multideck v4.0 or later.

The old .sscm file format cannot be used for CE-based projects. When your old document opens, you will be asked to save it under a new name. The newly-saved document will have the suffix .ssmd (and cannot be opened by earlier versions of Multideck).

You can use the same filename as your old document, because the suffix will be different: filename.sscm and filename.ssmd are actually different names. So in the Save dialog, you can just click the Save button without editing or changing the filename.

After you have saved, you now have a new document in the modern format. But it is still configured to use your external CSV file instead of the Content Editor. Now you will update your templates to use the Content Editor.

2. In the Content Source area of the Deck tab, select the Content Editor tab.


Select the Content Editor tab.

Now you can see the Content Editor panel:


The Content Editor panel.

For each template that you wish to switch, do the following:

3. Select the template in the Templates list at the left side of the window.

4. Click Convert from CSV. The content from your CSV file will be imported into the Content Editor, and your template will be updated to use the Content Editor instead of your CSV file.

And that's it! Be sure to save your new document. From now on, your card content is kept in your Multideck document, and you will edit it by using the Content Editor.

Cleaning Up

Your old CSV file and Multideck .sscm document are still in your project folder; they have not been changed in any way. We recommend that you get rid of them somehow, to avoid confusion. You might put them in the trash, or move them into an archive folder—someplace where they won't be confused with your new document.

More than one template?

Content source is set separately for each template, not for the document as a whole. If you have multiple templates, you will have to convert them one at a time.

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