paizo.com - GameMastery Module W2: River into Darkness (OGL)

Bhoritz, Sat, Apr 19, 2008, 05:24 AM

Is there a possibility to find (or buy) the maps without the numbers and notes (and if possible at a slightly better resolution).

I play using a screen to display the tactical situation. With the maps without numbers and notes, I could directly use the maps to play upon them. I would certainly be willing to pay for them.

sykoholic, Sat, Apr 19, 2008, 07:38 PM

Get a copy of the PDF. Using the Select Tool in Adobe Reader, you can Copy/Paste the maps into programs like MSPaint. Because of the layering of the PDFs, the numbers and tags aren't transported along with the image.

The only issue here is that some of the maps don't copy as one complete image. Instead, they come in pieces which you'll have to put back together.

DO NOT USE THE SNAPSHOT TOOL! Doing so will include the numbers and tags in the image.

Bhoritz, Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 05:37 AM

sykoholic wrote:

Get a copy of the PDF. Using the Select Tool in Adobe Reader, you can Copy/Paste the maps into programs like MSPaint. Because of the layering of the PDFs, the numbers and tags aren't transported along with the image.

The only issue here is that some of the maps don't copy as one complete image. Instead, they come in pieces which you'll have to put back together.

DO NOT USE THE SNAPSHOT TOOL! Doing so will include the numbers and tags in the image.

I have the PDF. And I did just snapshooted it. I had no idea that selecting would leave all the numbers and tags behind. Having the map in pieces is not aproblem, I can always put them back together.

Thank you very much.

sykoholic, Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 09:02 AM

Bhoritz wrote:

Thank you very much.

Glad I could help. :)

I don't understand all the tech-talk very well but from what I can make out, the numbers and tags are not actually part of the image. They are text on a transparent layer over-layed onto the image. So... when you use the Select Tool to "Copy Image", the text overlays are ignored and only the image is copied. At least that's my understanding of it.

If you are copying pics of NPCs, you definitely want to use the SnapShot Tool. The pics have solid black backgrounds that are set to appear transparent. However, if you use the Select Tool and copy/paste the pics into programs like MSPaint or PaintShop, the black background becomes visible and can be really difficult to get rid of.

Steve Greer (Contributor), Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 04:50 PM

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