How can you take an images and easily (automatically) turn them into paper minis?
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S. John Ross says he made Hexpaper and the first Sparks set with Softy Fontmaker and now uses the High-Logic product. While they're not custom, there are a lot of nice paper minis in the Sparks sets, and several nice free collections. |
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TokenTool, if you are looking to make your own tokens. Using it, you can easily crop and resize images and then apply any number of borders (square/circle/oval). I should note that TokenTool was written by a good friend of mine, @ColonelDork. Despite that, I still recommend it. :) |
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World Works Games sell images that are meant to made into what the website calls Standees. They are pre-designed cardboard minis in a number types and styles. You buy the PDF, print them out, cut them out and turn them into instant NPCs. They are $8 - $12 a PDF but after you buy it you can print as many as you like and if you are careful, they fold flat again, making storage a breeze. They work beautifully if you are nice to them, the only downside is a distinct lack of PCs. |
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I currently use imagemagick. I find an image on the net, crop it, and then run a command in imagemagick. (replace $1 with the filename.) For effective printing, it's trivial to then add multiple images to a sheet at a much higher resolution and print them out on heavy cardstock, as imagemagick can output to PDF. |
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I discovered a company that has a standup-style custom paper miniatures maker that uses some of the advanced features of PDF files to do it without needing special software. Best of all, it's available free on RPGNow: Silvervine Games' Paper Mini Maker.
Of course, like all PDFs that do fancy dynamic stuff, it only works in Acrobat Reader, so 3rd party PDF viewers won't work. |
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Not sure there is an easy way but find some examples you like and use them as a template. |
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