Addendum:
I thought I'd add an addendum and point out that a real graphic artist
did some of these and they are better than what this churns out.

Check out:
http://www.headlesshollow.com/freebies_games.html

This is still good for doing ones he hasn't gotten around to doing yet.

The Original Readme:
Hello,

This is my Man O'War template card creator. It creates poker
sized cards of ship (and monster and flyer) templates for Games
Workshops Man O'War game.

Usage:
usage: man_o_card.sh [ -v <variable_file> ] [ -s <image_file> ] [ -i <id_txt> ] [ -n <additional_note> ] <template_file> <output_file>

variable_file: This is a variables file. Use it to specify race
  related variables (see the globals.sh file to see what can be specified).
image_file: This is an image to be placed in the specifier box
  (upper left corner).
id_txt: This is some text to be placed in the specifier box.
additional_note: If you want to add a note to card (i.e. special
  crew types, crew expierence level, anti-flyer weapons, etc.)
template_file: The file that specifies what the ships template
  looks like.
output_file: The output file for the completed template

Notes:
This card creator uses the ImageMagick line of utilities. I have
tested it versus ImageMagick 6.2.4. Everything looks pretty
good, newer or older versions might be different.

I got tired of working on this, so it's a little hackish in
places. I don't plan to go back and fix it. It works well for me.

If you want Bridge sized cards, you can edit the globals.sh
(or create your own globals file) and change the width from
250 to 225. I haven't testing this, so you might need to play
with font sizes and the outer width to compensate for the narrower
cards.

If you want different colors (and or font sizes), most are
specified in the globals.sh (although I'd advice you to make
your own globals file and make changes there).

Bugs:
Every-so-often ImageMagick won't wrap a line (when it should).
This causes some words to get chopped and/or lost. I don't have
a good workaround for this.

If you end a text section with a quote ("), it doesn't show up.
End it with two quotes ("") and one will show up.

How To Use:
The simplest way is to create a bunch of "default" cards and
then print them out. If you want to get more fancy, create an
individual card for each ship (adding different specifiers and
specifier ids and notes) and print those out.

The default is 220 pixels per inch which is an okay hard copy
print resolution. A better one is 300 pixels per inch.  72 is
screen quality (although with today's resolutions, 100 is probably
a better screen quality level).

Since you have ImageMagick installed, you can use montage to
create ship sheets.  Example:
% montage -geometry +5+5 -tile 3x3 wg.gif wg.gif wg.gif lw.gif lw.gif lw.gif gs.gif gs.gif

You can either than just write straight onto the ship sheets,
or purchase card protectors (or even those 3x3 sheets that go
into three ring binders for cards) and then use dry erase markers
to mark up the ships.

This should greatly shrink the surface area required to play
Man O'War! Allowing you to play large battles with more ships! Yoohoo!

Creating your own Ship Templates:
Grab an existing template that matches the ship layout you want.
Make your changes (all of my template files are self documented
with comments). Generate the card, play around with the widths
of various things until you think you've got it right. So far
I haven't hit a ship type that won't work (haven't tried any
admiralty ships yet ... although I do support center targeting
... I was thinking if I did one, I'd have fore and aft cards).

Copyright stuff:
I'd appreciate it, if you use modify program to do something
else (or just make it better) that you give me credit.

All of the Man O'War stuff (titles, races, etc) are probably
copyrighted by GW, this work should not be taken as a challenge to
those copyrights.

Hope you find it useful,
Daryl
