POSTERAZOR PDF RED PLUS

might still do that.Ĭhris manning wrote: posterrazor handles cutting the image into page size pieces for printing, it also allows for adding overlap to each page, great if your glueing them together Plus one billion for posterazor. I was thinking of writing up a blog post on the whole thing. The laminating really helps, at least for the way I draw all over everything. I also laminate my maps, and tape them together such that they fold up for transport. you do miss out on some of the Inkscape features if you're using some of its features for cleanup prior to printing, though.

It looks like my spreadsheet step replaces the Inkscape and PosteRazor steps in some of these guides.

Drag resize the image until the map grid matches the grid you've made with the spreadsheet cells.

Set both column width and row height to something slightly over 1' (I use 1.1 inches, so the minis have a little extra breathing room).

It makes me worry a little about blowing through ink.Ī trick my wife showed me is using a spreadsheet application (Excel or LibreOffice Calc) for both sizing and printing the image once you've got it ready to go: I'll have to experiment with that! It's a good thought. I hadn't thought of doing that much cleanup and contrast enhancement on the image. So I'm coming at this from a little different perspective since my wife and I have been munging steps together without seeing what the rest of the community is up to.

I've been printing out my maps without being able to find this thread, until Sebastian gave me enough info to spot it anyway. I was very happy with the quality of the map using this method along with the color adjustment in the video too. Hit OK and now the canvas will resize with each square being 1' X 1' Change the units to 'in' and then set the width to the number of squares width of the image. The new canvas should be the exact size of the pasted image.Ĭhoose the Scaling option in the Image menu. Go to GIMP on the main screen without a canvas open. (If you cut at the grid lines (horiz and vert), the image will scale almost perfectly).Ĭount the number of squares for the image width. I found the easiest way to scale the map is this:Ĭopy image in Adobe Reader with photo tool. I can't imagine this seriously spoiling anything, but if you are playing, you've been warned. PPS: There are some mild spoilers for Carrion Crown because that's the map I used to do the tutorial. A friend of mine asked for some tips on printing them out so I put together a little tutorial, hope you enjoy. It's particularly effective for complex maps which are difficult to draw, but often it's just nicer to have a printed map. I often take maps from PDFs and turn them into printed maps.

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