Why no high resolution maps from Paizo?


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The original maps at Paizo are done at vastly higher resolution that what we are given in the Interactive Maps and AP books. Why does Paizo not offer full resolution maps in a usable format (not that hardly usable interactive format)?

Even the map in the background of the title page of ISoS's Interactive Maps PDF is higher resolution than the main interactive one.

Fortunately my native language is not English, which allows me to buy a translated version of the AP that includes high resolution maps.´

Still, why does Paizo only deliver maps in low resolution when the high resolution files are available to them?


Weissrolf wrote:

The original maps at Paizo are done at vastly higher resolution that what we are given in the Interactive Maps and AP books. Why does Paizo not offer full resolution maps in a usable format (not that hardly usable interactive format)?

Even the map in the background of the title page of ISoS's Interactive Maps PDF is higher resolution than the main interactive one.

Fortunately my native language is not English, which allows me to buy a translated version of the AP that includes high resolution maps.´

Still, why does Paizo only deliver maps in low resolution when the high resolution files are available to them?

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but this has come up in discussions before. Here is one in which James Jacobs commented:

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mfxh?Why-dont-the-adventure-path-map-folios#16

I would buy the maps for use on digital displays (as you point out Weissrolf, the ones included in the Interactive Map PDFs aren't often useful for this purpose). Perhaps with the increased usage of VTT, and enough customer demand, Paizo will change their minds and figure out a way to make this happen.


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As far as I understand the argument by James Jacobs is about printed maps, not so much PDF maps. And even then, why would the map on the title page use higher resolution than the map inside the volume? Why do I get much higher resolution PDF maps from a translated product (without any interactive forms nonsense), but not from Paizo?

It's easy to make it happen, just embed higher resolution images into the PDFs. As far as I know this was the case with older AP's map folios anyway?! So why not for Strange Aeons?

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