Maps from the PDFs?

[james noyes]

Hello, I have been printing off the pages from the pdf and cutting the pictures or maps out to show players and the handouts as well. Is there a way to lift just the graphic or image and print it out? or do i hve to do this 18th century cut and paste where I literally CUT and paste.

Thanks

[Kvantum]

Tools - Select & Zoom - Snapshot Tool. Highlight what you want, zoom in to the size you want it, then copy & paste into Paint or whatever.

[DMFTodd]

Tools > Select & Zoom > Select Tool. Click on the map, Ctrl+C to copy (or the Mac equivalent) and then Paste into your graphics program. This gets just the map without the text that is on it.

[Kvantum]

DMFTodd wrote:

Tools > Select & Zoom > Select Tool. Click on the map, Ctrl+C to copy (or the Mac equivalent) and then Paste into your graphics program. This gets just the map without the text that is on it.

Select tool doesn't work so well if the maps are made up of multiple images, as a lot of them are. Snapshot tool will capture it all at once, instead of having to piece together 6 separate images.

[Paris Crenshaw]

Kvantum wrote:

Select tool doesn't work so well if the maps are made up of multiple images, as a lot of them are. Snapshot tool will capture it all at once, instead of having to piece together 6 separate images.

The only problem with the snapshot tool is that it captures the image at the current resolution. Select tool will capture the image at it's max resolution.

What I do for the larger maps is select each piece and then fit them back together in a photo editing program. I've been using Microsoft Digital Image Editor 2006 (because I got it for free) and have had pretty good results.

[Kerflop]

When attempting to print out for using as your map how do you size appropriately (1 x 1 in squares)? I have Photoshop...

[Charles Scholz]

When I do the Ctrl+C, the picture has a black background. It is fine with a map that can be cropped, but how do i get rid of the black when I want a portrait of an NPC?

[Scott Betts]

Charles Scholz wrote:

When I do the Ctrl+C, the picture has a black background. It is fine with a map that can be cropped, but how do i get rid of the black when I want a portrait of an NPC?

This is due to the transparency layer that the PDFs use. The alpha layer does not translate over to the program you're pasting the image into. If you have Adobe Acrobat (not just Adobe Reader), you can delete all the other images from the page you want the portrait from and use your PrintScreen key to capture the portrait you want on a white background. You can then paste that into whatever image editing software you want and crop it so it looks nice. If you have Adobe Reader, you're pretty much out of luck. I've been extracting images from Burnt Offerings and offering their clean versions on my conversion blog along with the appropriate encounters for exactly this reason.

[Charles Scholz]

Scott Betts wrote:

This is due to the transparency layer that the PDFs use. The alpha layer does not translate over to the program you're pasting the image into. If you have Adobe Acrobat (not just Adobe Reader), you can delete all the other images from the page you want the portrait from and use your PrintScreen key to capture the portrait you want on a white background. You can then paste that into whatever image editing software you want and crop it so it looks nice. If you have Adobe Reader, you're pretty much out of luck. I've been extracting images from Burnt Offerings and offering their clean versions on my conversion blog along with the appropriate encounters for exactly this reason.

I wish I could do that, but I (and probably many others) don't have the money to buy the full version of Adobe Acrobat (almost $1000.00).