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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 3676133" data-attributes="member: 447">Addressing your original post, AoA:(1) There are a number of issues, some technical, some practical, that would have to be overcome both on our (the PDF-making) end and on your (the customer's) end. For one thing, we'd need to produce different versions of the maps for people whose printers do have the capability to print edge-to-edge (aka borderless, aka full-bleed) and for people whose printers do not (most printers do not have the capability). We'd also, then, need to produce additional versions of the maps for people who print on US Letter paper and people who print on A4 paper.While we fully understand that cutting four sides off nearly 100 sheets of paper (using the adventure 4 maps for example) is time-consuming and, yes, labor-intensive, we just haven't come up with a better way of producing these maps that we can (a) distribute for free and (b) offer to everyone. Personally, I suggest getting your players to pitch in. I also recommend a decent sheet trimmer with a rotary blade. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(4) The non-appearance of battle maps for adventures 5 and 6 is an oversight on my part and will be rectified within a few days. I apologize for this, and I offer thanks for bringing it to our attention.Addressing your second post:While there are in fact large-format printers in this world that can accommodate a 5 by 6 foot image (taking as an example the first map from adventure 4, and rounding up a smidgen), we are inclined to assume they are either (a) prohibitively expensive*, (b) unavailable to most of our customers, or (c) both.* I'm led to understand you could easily wind up paying exorbitant amounts for a single printout this size; more to MUCH more than the cost of the 12-adventure subscription. (The only online quote I could get for something 4½ by 6 feet was $193, one copy printed and shipped. I called my local Kinko's and they can do 3½ feet by 5 feet for $122. That's before tax. You'd need two sheets at Kinko's to get the first map from the adventure 4 package. And you'd probably still have to trim, because I would guess their large-format printers aren't full-bleed.)That said, you have two options for reproducing the full-size graphic.Option the First: Load up a graphics program, set up a really big canvas, and start copying and pasting the scaled-up tiles from the BattleMaps PDF until you have assembled the whole thing.Option the Second: Measure the size of a square in the Maps PDF, determine what scaling percentage is needed to turn that measurement into one inch, and print from Acrobat (Reader) at that magnification OR load up that graphics program, copy and paste the full map, and scale it up using that percentage. Alternately, you can derive the correct percentage by counting the squares along one side of the map and determining the scaling factor to get that side of the map up to the same number of inches.</blockquote>

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