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Vic Wertz wrote:
They were indeed designed that way. Unfortunately, the new one came back a bit darker than the others, so it's not as visually flawless as we'd have liked, but stuff does line up right.

Worked out really well for me today.

I bought this one in pdf today because I figured I could adjust the colors and then print it out instead of trying to track down a really dark one on ebay or wherever.

WOW.
Opened the file and just hit the Auto Level Tonal Range button on the software....exported to pdf, ran it over OfficeMax and holy crap...its the best one of the PDF's Ive printed out yet.

I dont think Paizo messed this one up so much as the printer should have adjusted the colors before going to press.
I worked in offset printing for many years and I know that even before the digital age it was an easy enough process to correct colors before printing a big job.

Today its just a couple mouse clicks from a terrible print to dazzling colors, so there really was no excuse for the printer not to notice how dark the end product was going to be and show the Paizo reps that it could be brightened up a LOT and look 100 times better.


cool...thanks for the pics. Definitely going to buy the set


Seriously interested in this map set...but no way Im making a purchase until samples of every map is posted somewhere.
I keep checking back and figured something would have been up by this point.


Hell...raise the price to $25 and REPRINT The danged things


There is a constant newbie group of role players always coming into the market. I can name a dozen right off hand. All of them loved the Keep and the other out of print flip mats I have purchased.
Im not the brightest bulb in the pack, of course, but it would seem to me that since fantasy role playing is always seeing a lot of new players....customers if you will....that any really decent, generic product like these flip mats would be easy enough to sell to the each subsequent generation of new players.


I had to go thru absolute hell to find one of these without selling my first born.
REEEEALLY wish companies would keep things in print sometimes because we're left out as chum to the sharks with the price gouging as soon as the words 'out of print' hit the publishers website.