Photoshop will do nicely, as will GIMP (the free and open source graphic editor). Your printer won't matter much, except for its paper-size limitations. Use whatever paper you have available. For instance, I make my maps in GIMP, then print them on tiled sheets of 8.5x11 (normal letter-size) paper. Then I just tape them together to put on the table for game.
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Of course, I print many of my maps all in large format sizes, laminated then used in our Pathfinder games, so I'm kind of lucky that way...
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How is it you manage to get PS to print it in tiles? Is there some kind of setting to get it to print a larger map, but in several prints to form the whole?Originally Posted by Gidde
Or export an image and use posterazor
Or if using windows, use paint (yes paint) which will automatically break up the image onto whatever the page size is.
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