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Friday, February 27, 2009
Tangent: A Note on Images
I have previously extracted and posted all the isolated images from the Adventure Path here so that DMs could make use of them as player handouts or props in their game. Given the number of groups now making use of this conversion material I am no longer comfortable with posting such images without the permission of Paizo - even doing so previously was a pretty clear violation of copyright on my part. If you still want to be able to use the isolated images and are unable to extract them yourself (it requires a retail copy of Adobe Acrobat, which many people don't have) let me know and we can try to work something out.
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You can't be too cautious, Scott. It would be a real shame to have this blog closed by Paizo due to some copyright troubles. And let it be clear, it's great to have those props, but that's not the real good stuff we are looking for. So in my opinion, you should not put those images anymore.
I second that.
You can extract images quite easily even using the free version of Adobe Acrobat, as Paizo set up the documents that way.
The alpha channel (the layer of transparency that accompanies a lot of images in the PDFs) will not be preserved if you simply copy-and-paste straight from the PDF. Only a couple programs can import the transparency properly. If you don't have one of them, any image featuring transparency will come with a nasty rash of black where the alpha channel would be.
I found I could no longer extract images when I upgraded to Acrobat Reader 9. But on going through the settings, I enabled Preferences/General/Make hand tool select images before text, and now I can do it again.
Glad you were able to get around that change. I heard about it and was reluctant to upgrade because of that. Thanks for letting me know how to re-enable it.
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