![]() print as required, cut off the white borders & stick together with a glue stick or tape. Make sure size in percent is 100%, use the buttons to align the image for best best fit to the pages – you can skip back and change the orientation (portrait/landscape) to find the smallest number of pages – press next. use photoshop to scale the image to proper dimensions, then use posterrazor And if you dont have Photoshop you can use GIMP instead (which is a free image manipulation software ala Photoshop). Set the overlaps to 1 inch (you can go smaller if you prefer) – press next. Select the paper size you use, leave the orientation as it is for now, set borders to 0.5 inch (this will depend on your printers borders) -press next. Open the image you just saved – press next. Open posterazor – change the settings to (inches). Step 9īack on the main image, resize by the percentage you noted in step 8. Step 8Ĭhange the width & height to as near as 2 inches as possible- note the percent increase required (500% in this case). Step 6Ĭhange the drop down to select ‘percent’. Step 5Ĭrop the new image down to the gridlines so its an exact 2 x 2 square. Step 4Ĭopy the selected square and paste as a NEW image. a 2 x 2 square with a half square border is ideal. Select a piece of the map with nice visible gridlines. If you don’t have a large-format, or even medium-format, printer, you can still print full-size maps by chopping (tiling) the image into smaller subsections, and then taping all those subsections together to re-create the original map in large format. Open the image in Photoshop / GIMP or other photo editing software. Step 1Įxtract the image from the PDF – there are a myriad of methods and apps to accomplish this and I won’t cover them here. To get a super accurate map, follow all the steps below. Jump straight to step 11, then use the number calculated above in the dialog box (shown in step 15) as the absolute size (Width or Height as appropriate) instead of selecting 100% 18), then look at the part squares on either side (if any) and decide if they are ¼”, ½” or ¾” – this will be close enough for most mats.Īdd these numbers together e.g. after you have the number of full squares (e.g. ![]() To do this, count the number of FULL squares on your map – choose either Horizontal or Vertical, whatever is easier. NB – there is a quick and dirty method to resize, allowing you to import the ripped image straight into posterrazor. Use this online tool, called Posterazor PosteRazor (sourceforge.io) Just load the image you want to use, then click on next and choose the landscape or portrait format. ![]() I find upscaling by 4x is usually enough to bring out the detail for tabletop use. I use Gigapixel AI by Topaz labs, but many others are available. If your image is low quality, you might need to resize it using one of the many AI image processors available Many times people have asked me how I print the maps from Pathfinder Society Scenarios as full size battlemaps.
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