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Howdy. So anyway what I do for my players and games is I grap maps without tags, and enlarge them to 1-inch square scale and laser print them out for use at the game table and miniatures. I've started collecting a few around here that are taking up room, and I no longer have the original digital files but I do have the printouts.
I contacted Paizo customer service and received specific permission to offer these to anyone who needs them, for no profit whatsoever. The first person to respond to this thread with contact info (an email address will do fine), I will mail them to you in the United States free of charge. You'd have them within a week.
Isn't this earth day or something? Well, that's the main idea of this, I was going to toss them but it seems such a waste. The maps are as follows: The Foxglove Manor House, Fort Ranick, Skull's Crossing Dam, and the little keep from module D0. Already blown up to 1 inch squares and taped together.
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Good luck! Providing this all runs smooth I bet I could do it again in the future.
-DM Jeff
I'm not going to ask for them, because I can create them digitally and they should go to someone who can't ... but I wanted to pipe in and say thats a great offer, and cool of Paizo to grant permission for that.
PS - In the future, keep the digital files. ;)
I could certainly use these, and would love to take you up on your offer.
rules.lawyer.ron@gmail.com
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Bah, humbug!
Well done Ron, for gazumping me!
I must say, those do look very nice.
I'm assuming you doctored them yourself to remove room numbers and secret doors, etc?
It's hard to tell from a way away, but did they blow up well, without losing too much quality? I haven't yet tried doing anything similar, but I guess if you're using the original digital image, it could be a lot better than a scan of a paper page.
Do you have the digital versions of those rather than the picture of the printout? That would be very handy for us online players.
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I'm assuming you doctored them yourself to remove room numbers and secret doors, etc? It's hard to tell from a way away, but did they blow up well, without losing too much quality?
Yes. Either I used a program I love called JASC Paint Shop Pro to edit out room numbers or tags, or when using Adobe 8 I can grab a map and usually the tags don't even come along with it. I enlarge the image about 300% there, then import it to MS Publisher to get the 1-inch scale just right, then laser-print them off. I have been doing this a while, and all of Fort Ranik, for example, took me less than 15 minutes or so from start to printout.
Do you have the digital versions of those rather than the picture of the printout? That would be very handy for us online players.
I wish. Sadly, no. I never quite realized just what a demand for these there are. Going forward, I shall indeed keep the digital copies and offer them as others have on these boards (with Paizo's permission of course) free of charge. :-)
-DM Jeff
How did you get these to enlarge so clearly?
Looking for tips on creating my own and these look really good.
Thanks!
Howdy. So anyway what I do for my players and games is I grap maps without tags, and enlarge them to 1-inch square scale and laser print them out for use at the game table and miniatures. I've started collecting a few around here that are taking up room, and I no longer have the original digital files but I do have the printouts.
I contacted Paizo customer service and received specific permission to offer these to anyone who needs them, for no profit whatsoever. The first person to respond to this thread with contact info (an email address will do fine), I will mail them to you in the United States free of charge. You'd have them within a week.
Isn't this earth day or something? Well, that's the main idea of this, I was going to toss them but it seems such a waste. The maps are as follows: The Foxglove Manor House, Fort Ranick, Skull's Crossing Dam, and the little keep from module D0. Already blown up to 1 inch squares and taped together.
Links to images:
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINKGood luck! Providing this all runs smooth I bet I could do it again in the future.
-DM Jeff
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Dude, hook me up! Falsehealer at yahoo dot com.
They look awesome!
Man, I am so sorry, I only have the hard copies of these and Ron nabbed 'em. Maybe next time?
-DM Jeff
Damn, thought you had electronic copies....Oh, well. If you get future electronic versions of maps let me know, I would be very interested!
How did you get these to enlarge so clearly?
Looking for tips on creating my own and these look really good.
Thanks!
Yeah, thats my question, too. I've tried to blow up the maps a few times, and they always pixelize something fierce. Those look much cleaner.
Either I used a program I love called JASC Paint Shop Pro to edit out room numbers or tags, or when using Adobe 8 I can grab a map and usually the tags don't even come along with it. I enlarge the image about 300% there, then import it to MS Publisher to get the 1-inch scale just right, then laser-print them off. I have been doing this a while, and all of Fort Ranik, for example, took me less than 15 minutes or so from start to printout.
Is the JASC Paint Shop Pro program expensive?
I usually open the pdf's on a machine that has Adobe writer 6.0, and everything has been flattened so that I can't remove the tags. I have another machine that has Adobe reader 8, I wonder if I would be able to get rid of the tags on that machine?
I've never used MS Publisher, but it's installed as part of my office suite. It sounds like the sizing controls are really precise. If I can get past the pixilation problem, this may be the way to go.
Does anyone know if you can import a pdf into Dunjinni to use as a starting point for a map?
How did you get these to enlarge so clearly?
Looking for tips on creating my own and these look really good.
Thanks!Yeah, thats my question, too. I've tried to blow up the maps a few times, and they always pixelize something fierce. Those look much cleaner.
I'd like to know this too. I'm hoping to pick up a color laser printer in the next year. Going to start running games for my younger nephews starting this summer. It would be awesome if you'd give us the information on how you managed to get such a clean unpixellated look to them.
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RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
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Does anyone know if you can import a pdf into Dunjinni to use as a starting point for a map?
I've tried to import whole maps to use as a starting point and have had no luck. If anyone else has tried this with success I'd love to know how it was done myself.
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Thanks for the kind words folks! I'm trying to go through what I do when I make these maps step by step. To be perfectly honest, I think it is the MS Publisher that somehow clarifies the images.
For example, in non-Paizo products where I don't have the PDF I have to do actual scanning. I scan a map at 600 dpi color. I open it in Paint Shop Pro (LINK) And enlarge it to 300%. It doesn't look too pretty when I'm editing out room numbers and stuff, but once I save the image, then open MS Publisher and import the image there to get an exacting 1-inch scale out of it, it just looks cleaner to me. It suddenly doesn't look as pixilated.
Now don't get me wrong, those maps above are far from perfect. If you lean in and get a few inches from them, they do blur a little bit. But the idea isn't to win awards, the idea is to see eyes pop out during game play and casual inspection while minis are being moved around, and that it does!
-DM Jeff