Anyone know how to take an extracted .pdf and create a 1"=5' copy of it? I want to take certain areas like the Thorn river camp and the Boggard's lair and create an appropriate sized battlmat for it. I tried doing a poster print of thr bandit camp but lost too much resolution and am now stumped as how to proceed from here.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
V
Here's a tutorial on Map Rescaling. It's pretty short and deals with a couple of topics, but their both helpful.
Another option would be to do it a painful way. Zoom in on the image one piece at a time and do screen shots. Then piece everything together in a raster image program. Time consuming, but the loss will be less.
Keep in mind, any time you resize it will have some loss.
Hope this helps.
Here's how I did it:
1. Extracted the images from my subscriber's PDF using SomePDF Image Extractor
2. Using an image editing program (GIMP in my case), I selected an area on the map image from the book that lined up along the grid and then cropped the image to that selection. I ended up with an image that is exactly x squares wide and y squares tall, no partial squares along the edges of my new image.
3. Again using the editing program, I rescaled the image using inches as my measurement instead of pixels. So if my image was 30 squares wide by 20 squares tall, I'd scale it to 30 inches wide and 20 inches tall. Voila, I now have an image where the squares are 1 inch.
4. I then use PosterRazor to create a multi-page PDF of my new image, as I can only print to standard 8x11 paper.
Its that simple; it takes longer to cut out and tape the sections together than it does to make the image. I've found that rescaling the image doesn't lose that much resolution, and PosterRazor makes a much better battlemat than the raster programs I used to use. Also, all of the software I used in the process is free/open source, so it didn't cost me a dime except for ink and paper.
4. I then use PosterRazor to create a multi-page PDF of my new image, as I can only print to standard 8x11 paper.
Thanks for this tip, you just made my life as a GM a hell of a lot easier :)
4. I then use PosterRazor to create a multi-page PDF of my new image, as I can only print to standard 8x11 paper.Thanks for this tip, you just made my life as a GM a hell of a lot easier :)
having no skills i just for example the stag lords fort
1. copy picture2. paste into a custom sized 50cm x 50cm publisher document
3. zoom picture up to fit that size and printed (onto 6 A4 sized paper)
where i a man of means, id take it to a shop and get it printed as one A2 sized print out.
resolution is still really good
had a go using razor and it didnt seem to be a much better picture
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Here's a link to my first attempt at converting Thorn River Camp encounter from The Stolen Lands - note that I did not crop the partial squares or add any appreciable border when I did this (it's bugging me so I may re-update momentarily) :)
-LINK REDACTED- NOTE - it's a 15 MB download.
Later,
Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Games
Here's a link to my first attempt at converting Thorn River Camp encounter from The Stolen Lands - note that I did not crop the partial squares or add any appreciable border when I did this (it's bugging me so I may re-update momentarily) :)
-LINK REDACTED- NOTE - it's a 15 MB download.
Later,
Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Games
very nice indeed
I removed the link from the post above. Please do not redistribute Paizo's cartography.
Also note that the Community Use Policy does allow creation of similar maps, but not reproduction of Paizo's cartography.
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Roger that - I actually meant to remove it myself and replace it with a sample from a Wizard's Map Gallery.
Apologies,
Greg Volz
I removed the link from the post above. Please do not redistribute Paizo's cartography.
Also note that the Community Use Policy does allow creation of similar maps, but not reproduction of Paizo's cartography.
Roger that - I actually meant to remove it myself and replace it with a sample from a Wizard's Map Gallery.
Which Wizard's Map Gallery is appropriate for a forest camp? (Link please)
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Looking through my archive of the Map-A-Week archives didn't pull up a forest encounter but there is one from the Red Hand of Doom that would work. Not wanting to redistribute WotC (or anyone else's stuff for that matter) there is always the Dunjinni forums which I've found the following:
Note that all you'd need for these is GIMP and Posterazor to modify and print.
Later
Greg Volz