Possible to use portraits from hero lab outside of program, like on roll20?

akuthia · July 23rd, 2016, 12:24 PM

as title, is there some where that the images used in monster entries available in jpg etc form, that could be used for monster art in roll20? I dug through all of the possible places I thought it might be, and while I saw SOME art for characters, i don't really see the quantity that would be expected if the monster portraits were all just image files somewhere.

Farling · July 23rd, 2016, 01:49 PM

The art is embedded into each individual portfolio file, and there isn't any sort of command available to save the image out of the portfolio (probably to protect the copyright on the official images).

charlieluce · July 23rd, 2016, 07:38 PM

I can tell you the trick that I use in Pathfinder to get images to use as MapTool tokens; if you add Armidale's Pathfinder Sheet as a custom output, the character sheet saves the portrait image as a separate file.

Paragon · July 24th, 2016, 08:38 AM

If you print things to a pdf, there's some tools out there that will extract images from PDFs. I use FM PDF Image Extractor myself.

AndrewD2 · July 24th, 2016, 10:49 PM

por files are just zip files. Open them in an unzip program and you should be able to get at the images.

Paragon · July 25th, 2016, 04:13 PM

Interesting to know, Andrew.

akuthia · August 5th, 2016, 03:26 AM

Thanks to all of yo, i'll check some portfolios and see how it goes.

akuthia Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 8 July 23rd, 2016, 12:24 PM	as title, is there some where that the images used in monster entries available in jpg etc form, that could be used for monster art in roll20? I dug through all of the possible places I thought it might be, and while I saw SOME art for characters, i don't really see the quantity that would be expected if the monster portraits were all just image files somewhere.
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Farling Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Greater London, UK Posts: 2,623 July 23rd, 2016, 01:49 PM	The art is embedded into each individual portfolio file, and there isn't any sort of command available to save the image out of the portfolio (probably to protect the copyright on the official images).
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Paragon Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 874 July 24th, 2016, 08:38 AM	If you print things to a pdf, there's some tools out there that will extract images from PDFs. I use FM PDF Image Extractor myself.
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AndrewD2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Muskegon, MI Posts: 2,975 July 24th, 2016, 10:49 PM	por files are just zip files. Open them in an unzip program and you should be able to get at the images.
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