Encoding of images in season 6 scenarios.

[Silbeg]

While I had hoped that it would change (the all-black image when you try to copy maps, etc), it has not.

I have to ask... is this intentional? It has really made it difficult to extract the maps for the scenarios, if I am to print them out. I'd prefer not to have to purchase software just to extract images and to print maps (note, I use a Mac, but if there was a good linux based extractor, I could be potentially use it... plus I could create a windows VM, but...)

Is this something that will be changing in the future?

[rknop]

I use pdfimages, a command line utility that's part of the poppler utils, on Linux. It seems to work with Season 6 scenarios.

[The Great Rinaldo!]

It is not intentional. The VOs have reported it to the development team. I believe they have a solution for new PDFs coming out in the future.

[Silbeg]

rknop, I may try that. The only extractor that I have found so far actually leaves watermarks.

Thank you, Tony. Do you know if they are planning on fixing the ones that are messed up? Do we know what has changed?

[Mike McFarland]

Has anyone had any luck getting these images to come out correctly?

[bugleyman]

Yes; use the image extraction feature of Nitro Reader (which is free).

Note they will be extracted with the alpha channel intact (which is what causes the black in some image programs) -- you can simply save them to a format that doesn't support transparency (.jpg, .bmp, etc.) to convert the alpha to white (which is likely what you want).

[Mike McFarland]

Aaron Motta wrote:

Yes; use the image extraction feature of Nitro Reader (which is free).

Note they will be extracted with the alpha channel intact (which is what causes the black in some image programs) -- you can simply save them to a format that doesn't support transparency (.jpg, .bmp, etc.) to convert the alpha to white (which is likely what you want).

Thanks, Aaron, I'll give that a shot. I did use Nitro Reader to extract ALL the images from the pdf into a folder. This works also, but you get all the different layers too. You end up with a ton of pics, but it's easier to pick out what you need vs copying one at a time and saving them.

[The Great Rinaldo!]

Silbeg wrote:

Thank you, Tony. Do you know if they are planning on fixing the ones that are messed up? Do we know what has changed?

I can't speak for them, but given their already packed schedule, I would not expect them to go back to redo the ones that have the issue.

[bugleyman]

Tony Lindman wrote:

Silbeg wrote:

Thank you, Tony. Do you know if they are planning on fixing the ones that are messed up? Do we know what has changed?

I can't speak for them, but given their already packed schedule, I would not expect them to go back to redo the ones that have the issue.

I don't have a link handy, but they have said it isn't entirely clear what changed on their end, and it wasn't a deliberate change.

[Nevarre]

I had the same problem, and have found this - http://www.extractpdf.com/

It works perfectly - provides a zip file you can download with all the images you need. :)