Hello everyone,
I was trying to add the maps I got from the Agents of Edgewatch AP PDF to Roll 20 for my group and I to use in a game but it looks like you can only add JPEG, PNG, Etc... type photo files to get the maps. Anyone know how I can add these seeing as they are security locked I can not edit anything.
Thank you all in advance
-TBA
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What I do is get the interactive map PDF, turn off all the icons, and screenshot the map and save it. Then I put it in an image upscaler, I'm not home otherwise I'd get the link for you. I use FoundryVTT, but it was worked pretty well for quality so far so hopefully it still works for Roll20.
Alternatively there are a lot of PDF image extractors around, but I haven't tried them.
What I do is get the interactive map PDF, turn off all the icons, and screenshot the map and save it. Then I put it in an image upscaler, I'm not home otherwise I'd get the link for you. I use FoundryVTT, but it was worked pretty well for quality so far so hopefully it still works for Roll20.
Alternatively there are a lot of PDF image extractors around, but I haven't tried them.
Nice! I'll look into that, thank you!
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Using Acrobat, I drag the images out as .tiff files (you have to rename them, since they always get called by the main file name). Then run those through a .tiff to .jpg convertor. I use this site: https://tiff2jpg.com:
At least for Extinction Curse, I've found that the maps in the main adventure .pdf are much higher resolution than the ones in the map packs.
You can just use a simple snipping tool to grab the image. Resultion will not be perfect but I have found it good enough to bring images into Roll20
What I do is get the interactive map PDF, turn off all the icons, and screenshot the map and save it. Then I put it in an image upscaler, I'm not home otherwise I'd get the link for you. I use FoundryVTT, but it was worked pretty well for quality so far so hopefully it still works for Roll20.
Alternatively there are a lot of PDF image extractors around, but I haven't tried them.
I also start with the interactive map PDF. I usually leave the room numbers on so I can remember which room the party is in.
Then I print that page as a PDF. PDF to PDF is silly, but it removes the other pages. I could skip this step, but then the next step would have multiple pages as layers I have to remove.
I open the one-page PDF with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). I use the Canvas Size command to trim away excess parts of the page. Then I export the trimmed map as a PNG file. Roll20 will import that.
GIMP is free at www.gimp.org. It is not user friendly, but I mastered several of its commands and ignore the others.
Wow I did not know there was so many options. Thanks everyone I will try these and see what I can get to work for me. I really appreciate all the help.