In the Excel file, enter the first number you noted in in the Selected Pixels box, the number of squares you got out of MapTool in the Selected Squares box, and the second number you got out of in the Total Image Size box. You’ll need to add 1 to the running total (since the first square counts as zero).ġ2. Using the Measure Distance Along Path tool that is currently active, click and drag along a row to count the number of complete squares on the screen.

Alt Tab back to MapTool and hit CTRL+G to turn the grid back on. Look to the right of that at the bottom of the screen (not ALL the way to the right, as that’s the current X/Y position of the cursor) and note the horizontal dimension of the total image size.ġ1. Look at the bottom of the screen and note the horizontal dimension (the first number) of the Bounding Rectangle Size. Release the mouse having selected right up until (but not counting) that rightmost grid line.ġ0. Drag the mouse all the way over to the right edge of the map, selecting all the way until you get to the vertical grid line on the right side of the farthest-right complete square. Click (and hold) on the vertical grid line on the left side of the farthest-left complete square.ĩ. In the image file with the grid, choose the Rectangle Select tool, zoom in pretty far, and scroll to the far left side of the map. Then Alt Tab back to and again choose Edit – Paste Into New Image (you’ll have two separate image files in – one with the grid and one without).Ĩ. Alt Tab back to MapTool, hit CTRL +G to make the grid go away, and hit Print Screen. Alt Tab over to and choose Edit – Paste Into New Imageħ. Zoom in as far as you can without losing any of your map.Ħ. Make your MapTool window full-screen by hitting CTRL + ALT + ENTERĤ. This has two useful purposes: It makes the Layer window disappear, and it lets you count the number of squares on your map (this will be useful later).ģ. Choose the Measure Distance Along Path tool. In MapTool, center your screen on the map you want to export.Ģ. Open up MapTool, Paint.NET, and this Excel tool (or a calculator).ġ. Thanks to a useful video and message board post from Eugene of the Fantasy Grounds forums (as well as from EN World), I learned a straightforward way to take maps that I’ve created in MapTool and turn them into JPGs both with and without grids so that they can be easily used by others and by myself in other campaigns.Ġ. Also, if you want to create maps to share with other virtual table top users, it’s nice if you can have them pre-formatted to a certain size. You can duplicate a map within a campaign, but there’s no good way to get it into another campaign. One of my few complaints about MapTool is that you can’t really export a map from one campaign to another.

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