In writing this script, I was mainly inspired by the wide variety of crossword designs that is possible to find in the specialized magazines of my country, where the puzzles are often rectangular and/or fitted with rectangular cells, and the crossword grids do not have to necessarely comply with a 180 degree rotational symmetry. Last edited by Gino D on Sat 7:19 pm, edited 7 times in total.Īs my avatar suggests, solving crossword puzzles is one of my favorite pastimes, hence I couldn't help developing a script for GIMP in homage to what is probably the most popular word game in the world. Here are some examples of crossword grids generated by the script. Lastly, in order to be sure to obtain a tileable and seamless pattern, notice that you should deactivate the insertion of the clue numbers and set the thickness of the grid border to 0. Anyway, the option called "Keep layers separate", if turned on, will allow you to later modify the grid border's color as well as that of any element of the crossword grid. The script can also add an outer border to the entire pattern, whereas this border has a settable thickness and shares by default the same color as the cell borders. It is possible to affect the random manner through which the shaded cells should be distributed within the crossword grid by means of the "Random behavior" dropdown menu, which allows you to decide whether the random seed has to be entered manually, generated automatically or retrieved from the last created pattern. You can download the script and read the relevant documentation from the following page of the GIMP Plugin Registry:Įach pattern generated by the script stores a list of the characteristics of the depicted crossword in the relevant image comment, providing an useful summary of the settings necessary to reproduce certain or all the features of the corresponding crossword grid in a subsequent execution of the script. It works on GIMP 2.8.0 and later, maintaining, however, backward compatibility with previous versions of GIMP (beginning from 2.6.10). "Crossword Grid" (currently at version 1.02, see here) is a script designed to create patterns depicting the famous word game of the same name.
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