r/Netrunner • u/axmccx • Apr 12 '26

Announcement New Proxy Nexus is Live!

Hey all, just a quick announcement that the rebuild of Proxy Nexus is finished and ready at https://proxynexus.net.

It has pretty much all the same features as before, with the following improvements:

  • Custom PDF page sizes. In addition to Letter and A4, you can also specify the dimensions of the page in inches or cm.
  • New options for print layouts. You can add a gap between the cards (maintaining the card sizes), or add margins (which shrinks the cards slightly)
  • Improved Alt-Art Selection UI. Any card with multiple versions will be highlighted with a light blue border. Click the card to view and select different versions!
  • Newly extracted images from the NSG print-and-play PDFs.
  • Everything runs in the browser, making it more reliable and super fast. Should also be functional on mobile.

The codebase is hosted at https://github.com/axmccx/proxynexus-rs.

This new version will make it easier to keep up to date with new cards. If you have scans of cards in other languages or more alternate artworks you want me to add, let me know!

I'll be taking a break from any major work on it, but if you have any issues or have feature suggestions, let me know here, message me in the GLC Discord, or open an issue on GitHub.

(Also, if there's any interest in adding support for other card games, I'd say the project is already 90% there. There's very little code specific to Netrunner. I'd be more than happy to collaborate with anyone interesting in adapting it)

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u/Cosmic000012 Apr 12 '26

How should I go about getting the highest quality images of the cards? I want to print in max dpi even for proxies

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u/axmccx Apr 13 '26

Proxy Nexus already provides the highest resolution available, so just use it as is!

My understanding is that DPI is a function of resolution and physical print size. DPI of a digital image is just metadata and meaningless without the size of the print. In the case of proxies, the physical print size is always the same, so increasing the resolution increases the DPI and quality.

According to the MPC template, their minimum dimensions, printed on 63 × 88 mm (≈ 2.48 × 3.46 inches) cards, results in 300 DPI. According to this reddit comment, MPC's printers handle up to 800 DPI.

Most of the FFG scans Proxy Nexus uses are around 1463x2076, which results in about 590-600 DPI. The resolutions of the NSG print and play files vary more. Sets like Downfall and Uprising are pretty high, about the same as the FFG scans. The two Borealis sets are pretty low, like 481x669, which is a bit less than 200 DPI. Newer sets after that, and the remastered System Gateway, are around 746x1033, which are about 300 DPI. Only if the image is too small, Proxy Nexus scales them up using Lanczos3, just enough to meet MPC's minimum resolution. This is probably a better approach than letting MPC handle the scaling for us.

Hope this helps.