Printing Fiery Dragon Counter Collections

[Morrus]

I just bought the Fiery Dragon Gold Counter Collection, and I'm having trouble printing them.

How do I make sure they print at the right size? When I go to print, I'm offered a variety of options, such as "copped and rotated to fit" or specific scale sizes. The images themselves are all full page, though, not at the approriate 1-inch, 2-inch or what-have-you square size. I don't get a specific option to print them, say, 3-inches square.

Do I need to resize each one in MS Paint? And how would I easily print out, say, a page of fire giants, given that each counter is a single jpeg?

 

[TerraDave]

I think I put them on Word pages and printed like that. If I remember they held there scale as I copied them over. Printed on a near card-stock paper with a fairly crappy color printer. But still worked well.

Great resource.

 

[Treebore]

I just bought the Fiery Dragon Gold Counter Collection, and I'm having trouble printing them.

How do I make sure they print at the right size? When I go to print, I'm offered a variety of options, such as "copped and rotated to fit" or specific scale sizes. The images themselves are all full page, though, not at the approriate 1-inch, 2-inch or what-have-you square size. I don't get a specific option to print them, say, 3-inches square.

Do I need to resize each one in MS Paint? And how would I easily print out, say, a page of fire giants, given that each counter is a single jpeg?

I've been printing them out just fine. YOu have been putting multiples on the same page to be printed, right? Thats the only way I can think of to where it would use the whole page. My gnolls, giants, and dragons have all printed out to the right scale, though.


FD is very responsive via their e-mail.

 

[beldar1215]

I think I put them on Word pages and printed like that. If I remember they held there scale as I copied them over. Printed on a near card-stock paper with a fairly crappy color printer. But still worked well.

Great resource.

This is how I do it also. Seems to work pretty good.

Beldar

 

[SiderisAnon]

Morrus:

If you want something quick and cheap for printing them, I recommend Irfanview. You can print to original size or set the size to a specific size in inches (among other options). You can also set a top and left margin. So if you needed three specific 1" miniatures, you could set one to print at 1x1, refeed the paper and print the next at 1x2, and then refeed and print the third at 1x3. (Or less than 1" border if your printer handles that.)

However, this is only useful if you're willing to print a couple at a time. There are other graphics programs that can create multiple tiled pages.


If you have Microsoft Word and are willing to do spend a few minutes, there's a really easy way to insert a page full of the giants. Do the following steps (menus vary by version):

1) Open a new Word document.
2) File -> Page Setup. Set the margins to 0.5" all around (less or more depending on your printer's required margins.
3) Insert -> Picture -> From File. Choose the giant you want.
4) Right-click on the picture. Choose Format Picture.
5) Under the Size tab, set Height and Width. (2" if you're talking Large creatures.) (If it's square, just leave Aspect Ratio on and set one dimension.) The rest of the default settings should be fine.
6) If you want a cutting line, right-click on the picture, choose Borders.
7) Choose a Box. You might need to thicken the line first and then choose Box.
8) Right-click on the picture and choose Copy.
9) Left-click next to the picture. You'll get a cursor.
10) Hit Ctrl-P until you've got enough giants. They'll automatically wrap. (With .25" margins, you can get 4x5.)

Because of the way Word wraps images, I have problems putting multiple pages in a single Word file.

If that doesn't work, let me know what software you have. I may know some trick. I do graphics manipulations and report production design as part of my job.


Personally, I use Campaign Cartographer for my counters and such, when they don't already come in a pre-designed PDF with a full page of counters.

 

[Klaus]

I just bought the Fiery Dragon Gold Counter Collection, and I'm having trouble printing them.

How do I make sure they print at the right size? When I go to print, I'm offered a variety of options, such as "copped and rotated to fit" or specific scale sizes. The images themselves are all full page, though, not at the approriate 1-inch, 2-inch or what-have-you square size. I don't get a specific option to print them, say, 3-inches square.

Do I need to resize each one in MS Paint? And how would I easily print out, say, a page of fire giants, given that each counter is a single jpeg?

If only you knew someone who worked on that...




You need to import the counter images you want into your favorite software, be it Word, Photoshop, Corel Draw or whatever. What do you have?

 

[SiderisAnon]

A Side Note On These Counters

As a further idea for printing these counters: I really love the artwork, but flat counters are hard for my players to keep track of on the board. I've used a bunch of stand-up cardstock figures before, so I just adapted the idea to the Fiery Dragon counters. You just create a template that puts two of the same counter with their tops sharing the same edge, add an empty box to the bottom of both counters, cut it out as a strip, fold, and glue to two empty boxes together. It makes a quick standup that is visible around the table.

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[Festivus]

If you are using the free version of Acrobat and have the newer version, they dropped the ability to tile across multiple pages. Could that be the problem? This is one reason (among many others) I keep Acrobat 6 laying around.

I have never tried the word option, perhaps I will have to try that myself.

 

[FDP-jason]

I just bought the Fiery Dragon Gold Counter Collection, and I'm having trouble printing them.

How do I make sure they print at the right size? When I go to print, I'm offered a variety of options, such as "copped and rotated to fit" or specific scale sizes. The images themselves are all full page, though, not at the approriate 1-inch, 2-inch or what-have-you square size. I don't get a specific option to print them, say, 3-inches square.

Do I need to resize each one in MS Paint? And how would I easily print out, say, a page of fire giants, given that each counter is a single jpeg?

HEY, I made some PDF's for this exact reason so please try this link:
http://www.fierydragon.com/downloads/FDP_countersheets.zip
You will get some PDF's from this zip archive, open them and you will see a grid of 1", 2" etc squares. Click on the empty square and it will prompt you to pick a file from your hard drive - go and pick a counter from CC Digital and it will fill the appropriate space - then PRINT the resulting PDF after you fill up the page with critters.

Thanks for supporting us.

-jason