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I just got the new Iron Gods Adventure path and I'm gearing up to start running it sometime this Sunday. I'm trying to get things together for it and attempting to figure out how to do the maps. I've got the Interactive Maps Pack for the game, I'm just trying to figure out how to actually make them large enough for use with Minis and Pawns, 1" preferably.
Printing is no issue, I work for a print shop, so I've got access to machines that can handle it. I'm just trying to figure out how to actually enlarge them. Someone said to put them Adobe Illustrator - but you can't open them in Illustrator any more - or Photoshop for that matter - their password protected. I've no problem with this, and I understand the reasoning, Paizo protected it's interests and products. I'd do the same. I was just wondering if anyone had ideas on how to produce a larger map without redoing the whole thing.
Thanks ahead of time for any help.
Instructions are here:
http://newbiedm.com/2009/01/13/newbiedm-tutorial-printing-battle-maps-to-a- 1-scale/
You can use the resulting image without making it a battlemap - note that instructions on how to do this with only free software (if you don't have photoshop) are in the comments of the same page - using gimp as the image software.
Oops - forgot they don't include the most important part:
Open your favorite pdf reader and click the options you want for the map (player view/grid on) and then enlarge in the viewer to about 200% - then highlight the map and copy it - paste into a new image within your image program and use the instructions on that page to make the map to scale (i.e. each square is 1 inch) - when I print I use posterazor and the 'economode' of my printer to save ink - still works great.
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I just got the new Iron Gods Adventure path and I'm gearing up to start running it sometime this Sunday. I'm trying to get things together for it and attempting to figure out how to do the maps. I've got the Interactive Maps Pack for the game, I'm just trying to figure out how to actually make them large enough for use with Minis and Pawns, 1" preferably.
Printing is no issue, I work for a print shop, so I've got access to machines that can handle it. I'm just trying to figure out how to actually enlarge them. Someone said to put them Adobe Illustrator - but you can't open them in Illustrator any more - or Photoshop for that matter - their password protected. I've no problem with this, and I understand the reasoning, Paizo protected it's interests and products. I'd do the same. I was just wondering if anyone had ideas on how to produce a larger map without redoing the whole thing.
Thanks ahead of time for any help.
I used the windows sniping tool to take pictures, then enlarged in GIMP.