Thanks for your reply.

I'm pretty certain that I can't do quite what I want to do, so I am
resigned to the fact that I wlii have to do some cropping in Paint
Shop Pro.

Anyway, I expect to get FM8 tomorrow so I can play with it this
weekend.

Michael

--- In FractalMapper@yahoogroups.com, Richard Sidwell <rdsidwe@...>
wrote:
>
> I know Fractal Mapper 7 you could select an Area and
> then have that area print on several sheets of paper
> that would then connect to form a big map. I had done
> it before with 12 sections, making a 3 by 4 sheet map.
> I have the full version though, it may not be
> available in the demo version. I haven't purchased
> version 8. I haven't been doing many maps lately. The
> map selection area for printing was an area I would
> consider weak for version 7. The selection screen and
> area selecting were tiny and didn't have any zoom
> capability to see exactly what were selecting. It was
> a bit of experimenting to get exactly what you wanted.
>
> --- Michael Jones <michaeljones161@...> wrote:
>
> > I am working on my own RPG for younger players, and
> > am working with
> > the free download of FM 7 to see if it is suitable
> > for my mapping
> > needs.
> >
> > I am keen to purchase FM 8 as it seems perfect
> > except that I am
> > having trouble with printing dungeon maps as I want
> > them. (I am
> > printing onto A4 paper.)
> >
> > I would like to be able to design a dungeon with a
> > grid (say 5ft=1in,
> > for example), that wraps over several pages. I
> > would end up with a
> > map of (for example) 24 x 24 grid squares.
> >
> > I need to be able to print that map out as square
> > 8x8 dungeon tiles.
> > I know I can print out each 8x8 section onto a page
> > individually
> > using the selected area option.
> >
> > Is there a way to specify the size of the selected
> > area for a
> > continuous print so FM prints out (in the above
> > example) 9 pages each
> > with a 8x8 area on it?
> >
> > Or with a map of 25 x 33 grid squares, get it to
> > print 9 pages of
> > 8x11 sized areas.
> >
> > Basically I want to be able to print a map in such a
> > way over several
> > pages that each page has the same size area of map
> > on it. (I used to
> > be able to do this with the old online map creator
> > at
> > roleplayershome.net, but that's no longer active.)
> >
> > If I can't do it in FM 7, can I do it in FM 8?
> >
> > Any advice or help will be welcome. If I can sort
> > out this problem,
> > I'll buy FM 8 immediately!
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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