Comments on: NewbieDM Tutorial – Printing Battle Maps to a 1″ Scale

By: Kizan

Kizan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:42:12 +0000

A while back a buddy of mine and I worked on the gridded map scaling problem and we built a nice little XLS file (with instructions) that would rescale a map to be square.

http://www.beauvais1.com/wp-content/uploads/mapscaletool-101a.xls

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:14:24 +0000

Can’t you just count the number of squares on the map you want to resize and then set the height or width to the number you counted? Example, you have 12 squares across, you set your Width to 12 inches. I tried it and the squares come out to about an inch. Possibly, they are exactly an inch but I don’t know where the aspect ration doohickey is.

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By: Behemoth0089

Behemoth0089 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:15:23 +0000

This is a great tutorial, the only one I’ve never used from newbieDM. Really useful if you don’t wanna spend a lot of money for some maps for home game

By: Kalvin Lyle

Kalvin Lyle — Sun, 16 May 2010 08:50:27 +0000

I’ve never take the time to rescale maps from adventures. I’ve been wondering lately if it’s cost effective. What’s the cost of printing a sheet of paper at home, £1, £2? Would it be less expensive to print full size posters? At least that way they wouldn’t be destroyed when someone spills the beer.

Great tutorial by the way!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:06:19 +0000

I use Paint.Net which is a freeware image editing tool to scale my maps. Works great and is free. One drawback is the actual printing of the maps – it uses the MS Photo printer wizard which I’m not fond of. To print the maps, I simply bring them up in good, old, MS Paint and it will tile them across pages.

Another trick is to use the Snapshot selection tool in Adobe Acrobat to pull maps from PDF files. First zoom in to about 300% to get the resolution roughly correct, then drag a rectangle around the map. It automatically copies it to the clipboard. Paste the image into Paint.Net, clean it up, resize if necessary and print.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

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