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Can anyone who bought the map folio for any of the adventure paths tell me if the maps are full size to play upon, or if they're useless reprints of what's already in the books?
They are not full sized battlemaps. (That would be awesome tho'!) The product discussion thread has them at 1/8th inch for 5 feet (not the standard battlemap 1 inch = 5 feet).
The maps in folio are even more worthless (worthless because of their small size) as they are complete copies: every single secret door is printed on them so you cannot even enlarge them with a copy machine to get your battle maps... First disappointing Paizo product I bought this far.
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The maps in folio are even more worthless (worthless because of their small size) as they are complete copies: every single secret door is printed on them so you cannot even enlarge them with a copy machine to get your battle maps... First disappointing Paizo product I bought this far.
I use Adobe Acrobat to export the images. Because the images are layered in Adobe, when it exports things like secret doors are removed from the image. (Not sure if you can do this with Reader.)
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Heh, and for me the fact that they were reprints of the maps from the books was the reason I wanted them. I just bought the RotRL pack for my upcomming game of that. I get tired of flipping back and forth when reading a module and I also like photocopying some of them (easier if not in the book) and then marking the heck out of it. In fact, sitting on my desk right now is a copy of the Sandpoint map with about 25 notes and points on it. To each their own I guess. If you want maps for the battles, there are some flip-mats and such that Paizo sells that are close if not exactly what you want/need for some of the encounters. And of course a wet or dry erase map is quite handy.
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It was a good buy for me.
1) I laminated and posted the Korvosa and Varisia maps next to my Inner Sea Region map from the Campaign Setting. The three look great together on the wall of our gaming room, and were referenced many times already during our character creation sit-down. (Also have extra maps from the Gazeteer and the Guide to Korvosa for DM and table reference; I like to put little pieces of sticky notes with letters on them an a corresponding key to note areas already visited/explored.)
2) It will be nice to be able to have a map handy and still be able to flip through other pages of the adventures. It was a little tricky to do so during my first time DMing the Adventure Path.
3) And... I just like maps. Fun to flip through a stack of them.
you have a gaming room! *sigh*
I envy you :)
Wait - the print version of this is NOT playable upon? I just wasted cash . . .
My entire garage is converted to an RPG room... Complete with posters, books, swords, candles, chains-on-the-walls, books, shelves, table, chairs, desk, computer, more books, chalk board, 1" squared magnetic white board, figurines, and did I mention books? lol
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The maps in folio are even more worthless (worthless because of their small size) as they are complete copies: every single secret door is printed on them so you cannot even enlarge them with a copy machine to get your battle maps... First disappointing Paizo product I bought this far.I use Adobe Acrobat to export the images. Because the images are layered in Adobe, when it exports things like secret doors are removed from the image. (Not sure if you can do this with Reader.)
I just exportet the whole map folio (jpeg) but the secrets doors and all that stuff are still in the new file. i am not very trained in using acrobat - what's my mistake? Thanks for your help!
Using the Select Tool click the map you want to export.
This should highlight the map of your choosing.
Go Edit - Copy.
Using any image program.. such as MS Paint paste what you've copied to your clipboard.
This will paste the image into paint without all the extra writing.
If it is multiple smaller maps you may have to cut out the one you want..
From here you can enlarge and edit at will.
And remember to use Acrobat 8.
With microsoft paint you can also remove the secret doors, won't be perfect, but at least they won't be obvious.
I have only a trial version of acrobat 9 - and it does not seem to work this way. and yes, I could erase the doors with MS Paint and I already startet with it but it's so annoying... Any other PDF program out there which would this for me?
I have only a trial version of acrobat 9 - and it does not seem to work this way. and yes, I could erase the doors with MS Paint and I already startet with it but it's so annoying... Any other PDF program out there which would this for me?
You need Acrobat Reader 8.0 to copy the images without text from PDF's. I made the mistake of upgrading to 9 as well but have recently rolled it back.
If you google Acrobat Reader 8 you can find some sites that still host the installation file. Not sure if Acrobat Reader 8.2 works or not, never tried it.
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I have only a trial version of acrobat 9 - and it does not seem to work this way. and yes, I could erase the doors with MS Paint and I already startet with it but it's so annoying... Any other PDF program out there which would this for me?You need Acrobat Reader 8.0 to copy the images without text from PDF's. I made the mistake of upgrading to 9 as well but have recently rolled it back.
If you google Acrobat Reader 8 you can find some sites that still host the installation file. Not sure if Acrobat Reader 8.2 works or not, never tried it.
You can get the Adobe Reader 8 installer from Adobe at http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ (though Mac users may have to claim to have an older OS to see it). Any version of 8 supports image extraction.
It's done! I did not expect that it would work with acrobat READER but it did. I downloaded 8.2, and now don't have to photoshop my maps, thank you guys!