print slide larger than A4 on several A4 'tiles'

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Enda

Hi all,
I would be grateful for help with the following.

I have a poster created as an A1 slide in Powerpoint 2000. I would
like to print this on A4 sheets so that I can patch the A4 sheets
together to create the full size poster.

If this doesn't work, I may need to package the poster in some neutral
format (eg PDF) and send it to a commercial printer for a full size
print. I have tried using Postscript and PDF printer drivers with
scaling. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks,

Enda
 
I have a poster created as an A1 slide in Powerpoint 2000. I would
like to print this on A4 sheets so that I can patch the A4 sheets
together to create the full size poster.

If this doesn't work, I may need to package the poster in some neutral
format (eg PDF) and send it to a commercial printer for a full size
print. I have tried using Postscript and PDF printer drivers with
scaling. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

If you have Acrobat 6, you can use it to "tile" a large page-size PDF to
smaller individual printer sheets.

You might also want to look for Peter Lerup's PrintFile (
http://www.lerup.com/printfile/ )
It has some tiling or n-up features; not sure if it'd help in this instance.

Your printer should be able to take a full-page PDF at normal size and use
the Fit to Paper option to enlarge the PDF page to fit the currently
selected page size in the printer driver settings.
 
Thanks Steve,
I produced an A1 PDF file from Powerpoint using the free PDF995
virtual printer. In the powerpoint print dialog I turned off scaling.
In the PDF995 properties dialog I set page size to custom and gave the
dimensions of an A1 page.

Thanks for your help.

Enda
 
So it all worked out as expected? If so, great!

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Enda said:
Thanks Steve,
I produced an A1 PDF file from Powerpoint using the free PDF995
virtual printer. In the powerpoint print dialog I turned off scaling.
In the PDF995 properties dialog I set page size to custom and gave the
dimensions of an A1 page.

Thanks for your help.

Enda




If you have Acrobat 6, you can use it to "tile" a large page-size PDF to
smaller individual printer sheets.

You might also want to look for Peter Lerup's PrintFile (
http://www.lerup.com/printfile/ )
It has some tiling or n-up features; not sure if it'd help in this instance.

Your printer should be able to take a full-page PDF at normal size and use
the Fit to Paper option to enlarge the PDF page to fit the currently
selected page size in the printer driver settings.
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