Map Questions

[woobyluv]

Has anyone discovered how to add overlays to regional maps? As an example; I pulled the map for Cheliax (Pathfinder Setting). It ported fine, it just no longer has any towns, cities, locations, or writing of any kind. Just the bare bones map. This is fine, but I'd like to draw in there at the minimum the political boundaries to differentiate this particular map with that of say Andoran, Cheliax's neighbor.

 

[AEIOU]

Windows 7 snipping tool? Love it!

 

[woobyluv]

Not sure I follow. Are you referring to importing the image to paint then importing it from paint? Or is that a hot key I'm unfamiliar with?

 

[EightBitz]

Not sure I follow. Are you referring to importing the image to paint then importing it from paint? Or is that a hot key I'm unfamiliar with?

You can't do any map editing in RW. You can add pins to it, reveal the map, reveal each pin, and reveal FoW. As far as I know that's it.

Any regional boundaries or other such modifications would have to be edited onto the map before you pull it into RW.

 

[BoomerET]

Snipping tool is a built-in tool that comes with windows 7.

It's not part of Realm Works.

With the Snipping tool, you can capture part of your screen and save it as an image file (png, gif or jpg).

I'm attaching a jpg I just took of this screen.

 

[woobyluv]

LOL, I've had winblows 7 for years now and never knew about this tool. Never once had a need for it until now. Thanks everyone.

 

[AEIOU]

Thanks BoomerET for the explanation.

I've found the snipping tool to be a godsend with RW. I can zoom in on PDF's, crop images from the web, create smaller locales from large maps, etc. Microsoft did good with the snipping too; it almost makes me forgive them for unleashing Clippy on the world.

 

[mirtos]

I've had Snagit for years, so ive never even looked at snipping. but the snipping tool is free, so there's that

 

[BoomerET]

In the past, I had just used shift-PrtSc, and made changes in GIMP, but the snipping tool comes in handy when you need quick and dirty images.

 

[Bidmaron]

What do you do to get the snipping tool? How is it different from prtsc?

 

[Parody]

If you have Windows 7 (en-US), the default location for the Snipping Tool is All Programs/Accessories.

It lets you pick an area of the screen, rather than taking a screenshot of the entire screen or the current window and cropping it afterwards.

I've had a couple different screenshot programs over the years, but it's not something I do that often anymore. Alt-Print Screen and some editing has been plenty. For digitally published items I'd prefer to reuse items in the PDF (export to EPS, for example) but you work with what the publishers allow you to do.

 

[Bidmaron]

Thanks, Parody

 

[Zaphod Beebledoc]

If you are using an app called Trusteer Raport, (used to by banks to help secure their webpages on your PC,) by default it stops screen grabs when the webpage is open. You don't have to on the banks page, but if is open, the grab is blocked. This prevents the Snipping Tool and Print Screen from working.

There are two ways round this, close the webpage, or change the setting in Raport.

It also seems to stop grabs when I'm using Apache Open Office as well, which is strange.

 

[lifer4700]

If you have Windows 7, you should already have it. If you can't find it, go to Start / Run, and start typing in "Snipping tool" It will likely show up by the time you've gotten to "snip"

For convenience, you can right-click on it and either "Send to Desktop" or "Pin to Start Menu".

PrintScreen by itself captures the entire desktop. Used in combination with Alt, it will capture a single window or dialog box.

Snipping Tool can do those things too, but it also gives you the capability of capturing a region of your choosing by drawing a box, or freehand.

 

[lifer4700]

Wow! I completely missed the posts on the 2nd page!

"What Parody said."