Battle map printer
Gridify and print any battle map to scale.
Upload a map, tell Goblinery how big one grid square is, and it splits the map across sheets of paper you can print, tape together and stand a miniature on. One square comes out 25.4 mm across — measured with a ruler, not promised.
4 × 3 sheets of A4 for a 30 × 20 square map — two of them deleted because they cover nothing but empty ground.
How it works
Three steps, about a minute, then you are at the printer.
- 01
Drop in your map
Any PNG, JPEG or WEBP — a VTT export, a scan, something you drew. The file is decoded in your browser and never uploaded anywhere.
- 02
Declare one square
Say the map is 30 squares wide, or that a square is 140 px. Either way Goblinery knows how big a square is in the file, and you say how big it should be on paper — 25.4 mm by default.
- 03
Print it, tape it, play
Pick your paper, and the map is cut into sheets with a 5 mm overlap to tape along. Delete the sheets that only cover empty ground. Export a PDF, or print straight from the browser.
What you get
Scale you can measure
The PDF carries the exact page size, so a printed square measures what you asked for. Put a ruler on it.
Grid you can align
Colour, thickness, opacity and a sub-square offset, so the overlay lands on a grid the map already has instead of fighting it.
Only the paper you need
Sheets are an editable list, not a fixed lattice. Drag the whole grid over the map, then delete every sheet covering dead space.
Rotate awkward sheets
One sheet can go landscape while the rest stay portrait — useful for a corridor that just overruns the edge.
Overlap for taping
A shared 5 mm edge between neighbours and a 5 mm printer margin, both adjustable.
Nothing leaves the tab
No account, no upload, no queue. Your maps stay on your machine, which is also why it is fast.
Paper
Pick a preset or type your own dimensions, in either orientation.
- A4210 × 297 mm
- Letter215.9 × 279.4 mm
- A3297 × 420 mm
- Legal215.9 × 355.6 mm
- Custom10 – 2000 mm
Defaults
Sensible out of the box, all of them adjustable.
- Square size
- 25.4 mm (1 inch)
- Printer margin
- 5 mm per edge
- Sheet overlap
- 5 mm for taping
- Export resolution
- 300 dpi
- Formats in
- PNG, JPEG, WEBP
- Formats out
- PDF, direct print
Questions
- Why did my print come out the wrong size?
- Almost always the print dialog. Set the scale to 100% or “Actual size” — “Fit to page” quietly shrinks everything by a few percent and the sheets stop lining up. Goblinery warns you about this right next to the print button.
- What size should a square be?
- One inch — 25.4 mm — is the standard for D&D and Pathfinder minis. A 1 cm square is there for metric-native systems, and any other size can be typed in.
- How many sheets will a map take?
- The editor tells you before you print: a 30 × 20 square map at one inch per square is 762 × 508 mm, which is 4 × 3 sheets of A4. Trim the empty ones and it is usually fewer.
- Does it work with hex maps?
- Not yet. v1 is square grids. Hex grids, fog of war and an ink-saving black-and-white filter are next up.