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<blockquote data-quote="rangda" data-source="post: 5626984" data-attributes="member: 86125"><p>I'll add my 2 cents in. I don't use DM software (yet) and this is largely the reason why, but I do posterize the maps and print them out on 13x19" paper, which has similar problems getting the maps into the software. </p><p></p><p>The first problem is getting the monster markers off the map, this is a huge PITA and although I don't have to do it for every map in WotBS I have to do it for some.</p><p></p><p>The second problem is that the maps don't have a correct DPI scale set in the files (although some of the WotBS maps from the first couple of modules did). What the DPI is doesn't matter nearly as much as it being set correctly in the file and you telling us what it is. The idea is that if I take the image and print it out I want the squares to print out 1", I don't want a map on a page with tiny squares. This DPI has nothing to do with the DPI you use when laying out the PDF's; the map may be 5"x5" 300 DPI in the pdf (so 1500x1500 pixels) but if it is a 100x100 square map then it's 1500/100 or 15 DPI to get the 1" squares to print out as 1" squares. This is the number that is useful to those using software (and those printing out the maps life size).</p><p></p><p>I don't know how hard it is for the map makers to supply this data, but to do it after the fact we have to guess. So for example I load a map into Photoshop and play with the DPI until each square is vaguely 1" (usually I err on the side of a bit larger as I'm using them with minis). For example most of the maps for WotBS 6 (which I just did yesterday) were ~33 DPI when you blow them up to have the squares print 1".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rangda, post: 5626984, member: 86125"] I'll add my 2 cents in. I don't use DM software (yet) and this is largely the reason why, but I do posterize the maps and print them out on 13x19" paper, which has similar problems getting the maps into the software. The first problem is getting the monster markers off the map, this is a huge PITA and although I don't have to do it for every map in WotBS I have to do it for some. The second problem is that the maps don't have a correct DPI scale set in the files (although some of the WotBS maps from the first couple of modules did). What the DPI is doesn't matter nearly as much as it being set correctly in the file and you telling us what it is. The idea is that if I take the image and print it out I want the squares to print out 1", I don't want a map on a page with tiny squares. This DPI has nothing to do with the DPI you use when laying out the PDF's; the map may be 5"x5" 300 DPI in the pdf (so 1500x1500 pixels) but if it is a 100x100 square map then it's 1500/100 or 15 DPI to get the 1" squares to print out as 1" squares. This is the number that is useful to those using software (and those printing out the maps life size). I don't know how hard it is for the map makers to supply this data, but to do it after the fact we have to guess. So for example I load a map into Photoshop and play with the DPI until each square is vaguely 1" (usually I err on the side of a bit larger as I'm using them with minis). For example most of the maps for WotBS 6 (which I just did yesterday) were ~33 DPI when you blow them up to have the squares print 1". [/QUOTE]
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