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I've seen a few other threads about this scenario, but I'm about to run it in a couple days and I'm wondering if there's any tips and tricks about printing out PFS maps. I had intended on just going to Kinko's and printing out some PDFs but I'm unsure about sizing and all that. Any help would be awesome!
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I found this tutorial extremely useful.
The adjusting of colors is optional, but the changing of resolution and the use of Posterazor (which is a pain to run in Linux, btw) is really useful.
EDIT: Skipping through the video I realize it does not cover everything I found useful, so two quick adjustments:
1. Gimp offers a tool to measure distance. You can use that to check how many inches one of your squares is long. If it's above 1, increase the resolution. If it's below 1, lower the resolution.
2. I did not like the "Cut out parts of the map and print them" method. I used Posterazor which picks any PDF (or image? not sure) and splits it up into DIN-A-4 (or US letter or whatever format you need) pages you can easily print. With an adjustable overlap for easier glueing.
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I get my maps printed at Staples, so I don't know if this advice applies to Kinkos. One, I can submit jobs online and then pick them up a couple of days later. Two (and most importantly), Staples has an Engineering Prints option that is much, much cheaper than printing the maps as Posters. The quality is fractionally less, but a color, 24x36" engineering print is $5.89 while a similar size poster is $30.
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I use engineering prints at staples as well and they look great as long as you have a good image going in. I have a text tutorial I got my info from, and can post a link once I am home.
For something like confirmation, probably worth getting the map laminated as it's one you will use multiple times.
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I use engineering prints at staples as well and they look great as long as you have a good image going in. I have a text tutorial I got my info from, and can post a link once I am home.
For something like confirmation, probably worth getting the map laminated as it's one you will use multiple times.
That would be a huge help!
Also, thanks for the advice! I'll definitely be looking into Staples!
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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If you're using Gimp (free photoshop alternative), you can use "Guides" to divide the picture, and then "Guillotine" to chop it up into pictures that will fit onto letter/A4 paper.
For a typical map, both flipmats and most special scenario maps, they're 24 x 30 square maps. Just hack it up into 3x3 smaller pictures of 8x10 squares each, and then print those as 8" x 10" pictures.
I have all of the maps for this scenario, but I think it would be simple enough to draw them out. They're mostly just caves and the one Forest map.
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Paizo's said that they rarely do reprints because they sell much much worse. Subscribers are a big part of the initial purchasers and you don't get those on reprints.
That said, a lot of the useful generic landscape maps have made it into the Classics line. It would make sense to do the same for Deep Forest at least, since it's two sides of green goodness.
OTOH, Deep Forest looks rather a lot like the Bigger Forest flipmat. Paizo could also write a substitution manual for a lot of older adventures "substitute this new map for this out of print map and make enemies spawn here".
