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I make a lot of maps for our local PFS game sessions by saving the maps as image files. After purchasing Carrion Hill to run this weekend, I discovered I cannot save the map(s) as image files. The other image files I can select as normal, or what I expected.
I've tried both Acrobat and Reader. Is there a reason I can't do this?
All of our PDF products are secured during the watermarking process. This means you are limited in Adobe Reader and some versions of Adobe Acrobat from doing a direct save within the application. However, you should be able to select the image and do a copy and paste into an image editing program. Additionally, some of our customers have had luck using an image extraction program (SomePDF for example) to export maps for personal use.
We do not purposefully limit images from being extracted from the PDF for personal use, however, many things can cause an image from not being selectable. The image extraction program method should work for this purpose.
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If you're talking about full-page maps, the trick in Adobe Reader is that you have to to Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (OS X) to select them.
I use Acrobat and normally the select tool works just fine. This process works for PFS Scenarios, but has not worked for either Carrion Hill nor the anniversary edition of Runelords.
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Or you can just use the Print Screen function (CTRL+PrtScn in Windows) and paste the resulting screen image into a program like Paint, then edit out everything besides the map.
I could, but then I would need to edit out the room designations, traps, secret doors, and sweet mercy is that a pain. My Illustrator and/or Photoshop kung-fu is not strong in this area. Selecting the image and saving it as an image file removes all of that clutter, leaving me a nice clean map to print.
Thanks for the tip, though. I had not thought of using the print screen function.
If you're talking about full-page maps, the trick in Adobe Reader is that you have to to Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (OS X) to select them.
I sometimes get better results working with the PDFs in a non-Adobe reader. Something about the security seems to make bigger problems in Adobe than in other programs.
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The fact that we are even having this discussion of how to extract images from Paizo's protected PDF documents with Vic Wertz, Cheif Technical Officer of the company, is pretty much all the proof one should want that we are dealing with a company that recognizes the value of its customers.
I just want to thank Paizo for being who they are.
If you drop the PDF into a program such as GIMP or Photoshop, it should allow you to load up the pages as separate images, then you can crop out the stuff you don't want. That's what I did before the most recent Adobe update, which let me select images individually, and might work for you if Adobe isn't cooperating.