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We used this image: http://www.dayztv.com/map/chernarus-plus-high-res.jpg
We divided it into a 12 sheet printable pdf using the program PosteRazor: http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download&lang=english
about $7 total
You could just download PosterRazor and then print out your design at any size you want. Rather than redrawing it manually at a larger size.
You could potentially go through a ton of ink if you're making something large enough so you might want to covert each layer into just an outline, if you haven't already.
You can make them even bigger if you'd like, wall sized even, using your own printer, or one at the library or whatever. There's a tool called PosteRazor that I use for making big stencils and posters, it's pretty easy to use, and lining them up and sticking them together with prit-stick is *prit*ty fun.
They would do it, I used to get maps made that way. You can also use a program called poster razor and do it yourself, with some tape and some scissors. It's a bit cheaper if you have a laser jet.
Take the full resolution version to a officemax or print shop. Or google "custom posters" and use one of those sites. Or download PosteRazor and print it out yourself. Cheers!
Edit:Made 24" poster .pdf for printing
Hi!
As most people are saying in the thread if you live in a larger more metropolitan area, you can probably have Office Depot or Staples print something like this for the same price if you don't want to go through all the work of putting one together.
If you do, I used PosteRazor because the website BlockPosters only lets you upload an image that's 1MB and the particular hi-res image I used was like 10MB. You input a width and height you want for your image into PosteRazor and it quickly divides up the image on 8.5 x 11 images that you then cut the border off and align wherever you want them.
The size of the image is going to be proportional to the size of the poster you get, as you can see. A panorama was certainly long enough to stretch across nine feet of wall, but not cover the full 8 feet in width. Still, I think the white space looks rather nice.
This is a 3x3 A4 test rasterbate I made using PosteRazor to check size and placement and the like, until I get around to making a proper poster.
I know it's not a great pic, but if you look at the center panel you can see I had to print that one in a much lower DPI since the printer was running out of memory. This was done with a cheap black and white lazer printer at home, so I'm not surprised it couldn't handle the image.
My University has a few, proper commercial poster printers that I'm planning to do the final print with. I'm still looking for a higher quality source image, current source is a 2520x1805 JPG.
I'm happy to host my source image or printable pdf of the rasterbate if you are interested in using them. Just PM me if you want either.
Often I'll print a map, either using a large-format printer or Posterazor to cut up a digital image into multiple A4 pages for printing.
IIRC there are two maps for Sunless – the Fortress (which is ~4 feet x ~4 feet @ 1 square = 1 inch) and the Grove (which is even larger than than, probably close to ~6 feet long). That's really big... Large-format color printing at that size is cost prohibitive for me in my local area; even at Staples I'd be looking at a $50+ print. There may be online options that are cheaper. So I might get the HD digital maps and print them out using Posterazor.
I remember there being a lot of rooms without any monsters (or something trivial like a giant rat or a skeleton), and therefor no need for a gridded map (I'm assuming you use map & minis, based on your question about map printing). So you could possibly get away with drawing out combat areas on your Chessex mat as needed, and just narrate the rest.
It's not that hard to produce larger maps and slice them up for home printer use. Posterazor makes it dead easy.
Awesome map, by the way. Fire effects are hard to do well.
That might be expensive for a single (or few time) use map. My suggestion, print it the size you want using poserazor http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ or MS excel to print it into a few sheets... once you've put it all together, laminate it for the best look and making it dry erase friendly for many uses before it starts to stain.
Alternatives to lamination if you don't have access or the map is too big, is getting rolls of self laminating (wallmart and staples has them) that stuff is tricky to get bubbles out at times. A last ditch would be to get a clear plastic table cover, that is also dry eraser friendly, you can just put any map under it... that would be a great solution if the map is a one off and you don't need to keep the markings for another day.
At first I was laughing to myself about how I have no use for 4x6 photos anymore. You reminded me of PosteRazor, which is what you are looking for. It's a program, but I don't think there's any garbage bundled in or any of that junk. Thank you.
I believe PosteRazor will do what you want, you will just need to put in a "custom" paper size and decide if you want there to be an over lap for easier alignment of the images.
image resolution is a concern - as other commentators have mentioned. if you have access to a printer and can afford the ink then diy to see for yourself. a quick google, no recommendations:
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
google for more if interested. good luck.
What I do is open up the map with GIMP, and scale the image (Image -> Scale Image). You can go by trial and error, but what I do is get a posterboard that I'm planning on taping the map to, and measure it out. The one I use is 36 in x 24 in, so I want my map to overall be within that range. I count the number of tiles across the map, and make the image scale that same number. So for example, if a map is 30 tiles by 20 tiles, I'll make the image scale 30 in x 20 in, automatically making each tile roughly 1 in x 1 in. I then export (File -> Export) and then reopen the file in a program called PosteRazor, which will print the image in a series of pages with overlapping edges, so that it's a very simple matter to tape/glue them together to get a near-seamless map. This is what the end result looks like (sorry for phone camera quality): http://i.imgur.com/vHyINC1.jpg
I use PosteRazor because I'm too lazy to leave my house to get maps printed, and I just so happen to have a laser color printer that I can make use of. The maps are perfectly functional in black and white, but if you're going to head to a store to get it printed, you can skip the PosteRazor steps and print out the full size image, or go through with it and print out the pieces of the image to assemble yourself.
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
This app will enlarge and divide your image into the number of sheets you tell it to without adding a raster pattern to the enlargement. You can then output the separate pages to a printer (a laser printer will probably work best). The laser printer will then use its own internal halftone pattern on the image (it won't be so coarse).
There are downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux.
It looks like the app was written in Java so the interface takes a little bit of time to figure out.
Once you input your image and set the margins and output size the application will generate a multipage pdf that you can open and print. When I tested it just now the application did not automatically put a .pdf extension of the output file so you may need to do this yourself when naming the final output document.
> How do you guys make larger stencils?
From a printer, there are a few ways. Tiled printing, of some sort.
Or... Just draw big!
I use PosterRazor instead, because it doesn't turn the image into dots. This means you'll probably need a high resolution image though, unless you're doing a small poster. I cut off the borders, use a minimal amount of tape to keep it together, and after the poster goes up you can't even tell it's on multiple sheets unless you get close up.
Ran this through PosteRazor really quickly. Got this as a result. Now, if I find that the artist wants to sell copies of this, I'll take it down. But for now, improvised poster. Overlaps at the bottom-right with a 1" border, I believe.
If you want a different size, run the HQ image through the program
My method:
Step 1: I have the PDF copy of the adventure, so I take that into Photoshop. I've not had to use the GIMP for a while but it should have similar enough options that you can fumble around until you find them.
Step 2: I set the grid to match the DPI of the document (so with a DPI setting of 100 I want gridlines every 100 pixels), then scale my image until the gridlines on the map match the gridlines in Photoshop. I've found that some PDF images are skewed, and gridlines on the maps at the extreme north/south or east/west will be slightly different distances, so you might need to do some tweaking and cleaning to get everything to fit perfectly.
Step 3: Save the image as a JPEG.
Step 4: Load up Posterazor and point it at the image. This program will take your image and render it at full-scale, splitting the document into multiple A4 pages so you can run it off on a regular printer. Each page has a corner that overlaps, so you don't have to be super picky cutting off the margins where the printer can't print out to. After they're all printed off and the edges are cut, I stick the pages together into one big map.
I could probably print directly without using Posterazor, but that's the way I learned to do it and I don't wanna change now.
Oh it's taped together, it just didn't show too well in the photo. I used photoshop to make the map using madcowchef's free tiles and then posterazor to chop it up into printable bits while maintaining the correct measurements.
If you're wondering how to print out templates that you've made or found you can use PosteRazor which divides a picture into regular-sheets-of-paper sized pieces that you glue together to make the full size. So you don't need a giant custom printer. You'd have to figure out the measurements for scaling yourself though, so it might take some trials.
I don't know if there are any shortcut programs to scaling or breaking down pieces into a 2d printable templates, but good luck.
I find the best thing to do is to save your stencil as a jpeg and use a program like PosteRazor which will split your image into several pages and save as a PDF, it's easy to print from there.
I know a few people that have used this site that has a free downloadable program that they used for making posters. It should work pretty well for making scaled images for props as well though.
You might want to decide if you're using a battle grid or "theater of the mind".
If battle grid, you might want to buy these and print them out, perhaps with the help of Posterazor.
You don't have to enlarge the images with the program I used http://posterazor.sourceforge.net It does the work for you. If you look through this thread you'll find discussion on programs to use to clean up the images. There's even suggestions from others on how to make the process easier. Let me know if you need help with them and I can walk you through what I did.
As for measurements I had in my head how tall I wanted each one and then just divided that by 11" (the height of a standard piece of of printer paper). posterazor just needs to know how many sheets you will using.
Probably! There's a website out there that will actually break your picture down into 8.5 x 11 parts so you can print it out on the computer and piece it together. Here it is!
If you want a print-quality poster, I think you'd have to put the image on a USB stick and take it somewhere like Walmart, or maybe an office supply store. My sis had it done recently, I just sent her a text to ask where she got hers.
Update: Sis got hers done at Costco. You need a Costco card, though.
I taught high school math back in the day. One aesthetically pleasing thing you can put on your wall is the unit circle on butcher paper. Go basic or posterazor one; then when the kids actually cover it, have them make prettier ones for you. There are also some neat Einstein quotes you can posterazor, as well. Just to tide you over :)
Where did you get it printed? My immediate reaction was to try the Rasterbator or PosteRazor.
Printable in 4 sheets : A4 and letter formats.
Made with PosteRazor.
For now the best way is to use Posterazor found here: http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
Just set the "Absolute size" in step 4 to whatever the x by y in squares are.
Right now I am trying to figure out how I will release them in the future so please excuse this extra work!
I use Posterazor. It slices up images into 8.5"x11" pages.
For example, I took this map of Mike Schley's Nangalore. The HD version printed at 1-inch squares is massive. So I cropped the edges & scaled it down to about 82.5% of its original size – I know from experience that is the upper limit of what I can get away with so that a miniature base mostly fits on a square.
Then I ran it through Posterazor, fiddling with the settings until I was happy (I prefer no overlap). The final PDF is 77 Mb, so a bit too big for my GoogleDrive, but here is a snapshot of what it looks like.
I'll color print this 25-page PDF and then trim off the white edges of each page. And voila!
I'd recommend this method. https://newbiedm.com/2009/01/13/newbiedm-tutorial-printing-battle-maps-to-a-1-scale/
My problem was that I was always finding maps where the scaling wasn't made such that each square was an inch.
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ This I found more useful because the images I was using where bigger than 8mb and I cba uploading them to imgur
Yeah, you need to send it to a poster-printing service or use a large-format printer if you're lucky enough to have one handy. Alternately, export it as a raster image and use PosteRazor to split it up into multiple 8.5"x11" sheets.
You could also make your own with posterazor. You can have a really big picture and set the printer to print it out in pieces. depending on how good your printer and skills are, you could make something pretty nice.
> how can I convert these images to fit on multiple sheets on letter or the very least legal sized paper?
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
Does the work for you and bakes the result in a pdf you can take to a print shop. Used it when I was still running my Pathfinder group and it worked quite well.
You could just use a fixed initiative, where the characters all go in Dex order (counting down from 20 or whatever), and the monsters go when their dex says. You can make it even easier for everyone to track using the expedient I saw here (and adopted) of having people's character name and initiative number on a little tab you hang on your DM screen, in initiative order from left to right. When they fight something, just hang a marker for the monster on the screen where they belong in the list. It's slick. (like this: https://newbiedm.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/dsc05380.jpg)
If you like having random initiative (as I do) roll each round BUT ONLY FOR THE BAD GUYS. It doesn't really matter what order the players go in, relative to each other, it's only relative to when the bad guys go.
As far as a map, yeah, having it printed/laid out can be a huge timesaver, as well as a way for your to 'pretty it up' in neat ways. So for example, you can take any pdf map online you want to use with a grid, scale it up, and print at scale to your figures with http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ (note, I get a google warning going there because it's sourceforge for some reason)
Then you have a sweet map can lay down when they walk into the temple, and don't have to waste time drawing.
Not sure what was used but this can be done by default in paint, done in photoshop by making guides to fit the paper size and slicing/printing, or by using something easy like PosteRazer.
Get a wallpaper, and go to some custom Poster site. Since the backgrounds are usually 1080p/4K, there should be little to no stretching.
I used this picture as reference for my build. its quite low quality. You can use PosteRazor to print out the image in full scale, by printing a big image on seperate pages, and gluing/taping them together. or you can just calculate the dimensions of the different pieces yourself, using a picture as reference. the whole key should be about 1 meter, but it depends on how tall you are. Just ask if you have any more questions :)
Posterazor works wonders.
If you do that kind of thing often enough, a vinyl cutter is a good investment, too. It's possible to hack it a little bit to do sheets of mylar.
Get Gimp: Gimp
Get PosteRazor: PosterRazor
Copy the map from the PDF (it's cheaper) and paste it into gimp. Make the squares 1x1 scale. Export, I generally do low loss PNG. Import it into posterazor. Figure out how to minimize paper usage, use a margin of about 1/4". Print, cut, tape. Use a sheet of plexiglass to cover and flatten. It's shiny and less time drawing.
Bonus: Cut up small construction paper circles... by small I mean Tupperware lid size. So a little smaller than a tea cup saucer. Use as fog of war. Further bonus: make it colored paper, let your players leave themselves notes. Like: TAKE 10! or CARRY A BACK UP WEAPON!
Using a source vector I found, I printed it out on regular printer paper using PosteRazor to splice it up. From there, I sliced off two of the edges and lined up the rest using tape and patience.
Print out this game board and play the best Ent board game that I've made. I have played it with my friends about 8 times. It can take about 3-4 hours to actually finish the game, and you will be nice and stoned in the end. It has a great mix of things to do, it never gets old. I suggest downloading the full resolution and then using a program like posterazor to print out the full game board.
Took it into ps and screwed around with image>adjustments>threshold. I don't mess around with desaturate/contrast/levels they make me angry. Threshold cuts straight to the point with a strictly black and white pic. As for getting it to the 16x20 size I use a program called posterazor that chops up the pic in however many sheets of 8.5x11 or whatever size paper I dictate in the settings. http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/