PDF Tiles to Images?

[scottaroberts]

Many of the sites I have seen offer dungeon tiles (yay!) Some of them, however, seem to think that PDF is a great format for them (wha?). What I don't know is, how do I get the images out of the PDFs to use them in (say) Gimp or Paint to make maps?

I assume you *can* simply link them together in Gimp if you want. Unless there's a better program for moving map tiles around. That would be awesome, especially if it's open-source or otherwise freely available.

[Nickademus]

https://www.gonitro.com/pdf-reader

[Andraax]

Gimp reads PDF files.

[damned]

my favourite tool for using tiles is Tiled.
https://www.mapeditor.org/

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[Diceman]

Gimp reads PDF files.

New to FG's. I've heard of Gimp before but not quite sure what it is, where to acquire it, or how to use it. I am making the assumption it is a mapping program.

[dulux-oz]

I'm quite partial to paint.net - its free, relatively easy to learn (give or take) and does just about all I need.

Google it and you'll be able to download it

Cheers

[damned]

New to FG's. I've heard of Gimp before but not quite sure what it is, where to acquire it, or how to use it. I am making the assumption it is a mapping program.

www.gimp.org
It is a freeware, open source alternative to Photoshop.
It is a very powerful graphics application.

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[Zacchaeus]

Dulux

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...And it was Delicious!

I get all of this except why is the square root of -1 = i?

[Trenloe]

I get all of this except why is the square root of -1 = i?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit

[ColinBuckler]

I use a program called pdfimages.exe - its a free download from https://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Its a batch command but it will look at a PDF and rip out all images for you.

I then resize the images using XNConvert which is also fee and available from https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/