Handout Formatter - Style Sheets for Roll20 Handouts Available in One-Click Install | Video Demo Handout Formatter is a Mod Script that takes the plain text you've already written and formatted in a handout's Notes or GM Notes and dresses it up to look like a real prop from your game world — an old letter, a wanted poster, a torn journal page, whatever fits the scene. You can also use it to match your game system's theme instead of looking like plain, unstyled text. Your original writing is never touched — the styling sits on top of it, and can be swapped or removed again at any time. As an added bonus, "Remove Styling" doesn't just strip the applied style — it also cleans up HTML cruft left behind by other programs (like Microsoft Word) and fixes a handful of Roll20 text-editor quirks, like oversized quote blcks or header styles that won't let go. A few things people might use it for: A handwritten letter or diary page for a journal-keeping character A page from an old book A wanted poster, tavern notice, or other in-world prop Giving every handout in a game — not just one — the same consistent, system-appropriate look. It ships with a 5e style, and has instructions on how to pick up a PF2 style. Cleaning up text pasted from outside sources Style hadouts can be transmogrified, or the style itself can be shared as a text file — the file has a link to at least ten more styles. How it works Type !formathandout to open the control panel: pick a handout, pick a style, preview it, click Apply. It's all click driven from a master control handout. Four styles ship built in (Parchment, 5e, Book, Computer), and I have a library of ready-made extras — a carved stone monument, a wanted poster, a redacted classified memo, an unrolled magic scroll, and more. Each style just plain CSS you paste into a handout. Writing your own style is the same: no scripting involved, just CSS in a handout's Notes field. If you are new to CSS, here is a link to Codecademy's free course . It covers everything you'd need for this. Hopefully if this script gains traction, users can share styles they've created in this thread. If so, I can include them in the online style repository. If a styled handout's Notes get manually edited afterward (like you add a section, using Roll20's built in text editor), the panel flags it as out of sync and can re-apply the style in one click, so styling and your own edits don't fight each other. Handout Formatter pairs well with Image Editor if you also want images placed and captioned inside the same handouts. If you have Image Editor installed, a button for it will appear in the interface. Changes made with Image Editor are respected by Handout Formatter. Install One-Click API install — search "Handout Formatter" in your game's API Scripts page. Full docs, the built-in help handout (!formathandout --help), and the style library are all included. Feedback and style sharing welcome! This script was released earlier on my Patreon
