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Hello,
I'm new to Pathfinder and just got my 1st full AP, Giantslayer, which I plan to DM/GM to my old group (3.5) using roll20 since we all live in different states now.
While I know that roll20 has a learning curve and it's hard to master, I do expect our 'st sessions to be messy and somewhat crappy due my limited knowledge of the online tool, I was excitedly creating tokens, NPCs stats and had no issue by selecting a NPC portrait and using control+C / control+V to get their portraits into Windows Paint and then uploading it to the online platform.
Next phase was to upload maps, and since we do have the PDF Interactive Maps, I'd rather use those (where I can hide the DM/GM-only information or even grid information) than the ones in the main AP PDF, no to show more than I should.
Then I figured that the Interactive Maps PDF file doesn't NOT allow you to copy the maps, frustrating any plans I had for a better resolution spoiler-free map show to my players.
I know I can printscreen the maps with the GM and grid information off, but that results in a poor resolution image and whenever I attempt to scale it to the 70-pixel/5-feet gridline, it becomes blurry and unattractive.
Again, sorry if this was asked or addressed before or if this is not the right forum section to ask, but I could not find a similar thread anywhere.
Chief Technical Officer
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Unfortunately, image extraction just doesn't work correctly with the interactive PDFs. That's not a restriction we're imposing, but a technological limitation.
If your primary goal is image extraction, you want the regular PDFs. And as BobROE said, when you extract an image from one of those, it generally won't include the map tags (with the exception of a few very old ones).