Techniques for printing out scale versions of maps from PDFs?

[Rycaut]

So I run a lot of Pathfinder Society and it is getting a bit old drawing out maps - I've seen occasions where other DMs have printed out scale versions of the maps found in scenarios... but I'm not sure what trick(s) they used to accomplish this feat...

Can anyone point me at a simple method of taking a map image and getting it to print out as a series of tiled pages at roughly the right scale that I can tape together to use for a game? Clearly I'm missing some key feature(s) and/or apps because I can't figure out how to get an image printed out across many pages - let alone do so at anything close to the right scale for minis.

(as an aside I'd love it if as PFS GM I could buy printable, scaled correctly versions of custom maps for a given scenario)

[Dennis Baker]

I put together a tutorial for exactly that. I posted it in the PFS GMs section a couple weeks back.

Here is the YouTube video.

[Rycaut]

Seems like the key at least for my Printer at work was a feature called "Poster" which would take the image and print it over multiple pages.. now for some experiments to see what gets close to the right scale....

thanks for the tutorial! Glad I'm not the only person trying to figure this out.

[Dennis Baker]

In the thread I linked above, someone mentions a program called PostRazor (I think) which splits maps. My tutorial is mostly about editing the map so it looks better once it's printed out, but I also talk about how I scale maps and print them in there.

[Azaelas Fayth]

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