Print very large PDF or photo

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Yet Another Mike

I have a large PDF (a map) measuring 55x36". I'd like to print it out on 30
8.5x11 sheets (a grid of 6 sheets across, 5 sheets down) and tape it all
together when I'm done. I may be able to convert the PDF to another file
format if that helps. Any freeware that can handle this?

Thanks, Mike
 
Il 15/03/2004 8.41, Yet Another Mike scrisse:
I have a large PDF (a map) measuring 55x36". I'd like to print it out on 30
8.5x11 sheets (a grid of 6 sheets across, 5 sheets down) and tape it all
together when I'm done. I may be able to convert the PDF to another file
format if that helps. Any freeware that can handle this?
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There's an old unix utility, poster:

http://www.gnu.org/directory/poster.html

I could not find a windows version. Probably you can use it with cygwin.

bye
maxx
 
emmexx said:
Il 15/03/2004 8.41, Yet Another Mike scrisse:


There's an old unix utility, poster:

http://www.gnu.org/directory/poster.html

I could not find a windows version. Probably you can use it with cygwin.
Click to expand...

I used to have a copy of a Windows version of a program called Poster. Good
in theory, but in actual usage it sucked old persimmons. The larger you
increased the size of a picture to be printed, the larger the "lego-looking"
big, boxy pixel-critters got. If you were to take a standard screen sized
pic and expand it that large it would probably be unrecognizable by time you
printed it.
 
Ceg said:
Windows version of a program called Poster. ... The larger you
increased the size of a picture to be printed, the larger the "lego-looking"
big, boxy pixel-critters got. If you were to take a standard screen sized
pic and expand it that large it would probably be unrecognizable by time you
printed it.
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Thanks, but I don't want to enlarge a small, low resolution print to a large
size. I have a large PDF map that measures 55x36" without enlarging. I can
cut the picture into page-size pieces manually and print it out, but I was
hoping to do it automatically.

Hmm, maybe I should write a filter for one of the existing photo editors to
cut my picture into smaller pieces. I'd still have to print each page
manually, but it would save some work....
 
Yet Another Mike said:
Thanks, but I don't want to enlarge a small, low resolution print to a large
size. I have a large PDF map that measures 55x36" without enlarging. I can
cut the picture into page-size pieces manually and print it out, but I was
hoping to do it automatically.

Hmm, maybe I should write a filter for one of the existing photo editors to
cut my picture into smaller pieces. I'd still have to print each page
manually, but it would save some work....
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Are you sure your current printer driver won't do what you want?
 
Yet said:
I have a large PDF (a map) measuring 55x36". I'd like to print it out
on 30
8.5x11 sheets (a grid of 6 sheets across, 5 sheets down) and tape it
all together when I'm done. I may be able to convert the PDF to
another file format if that helps. Any freeware that can handle this?
Click to expand...

ImageMagick can do this from the command line or scripting.

This command will convert a large PDF into a Tiff image, then cut it
into tiles named img_01.tif, img_02.tif, etc. You get to print the tiles
yourself.

convert very_big.pdf -crop 1600x2000 img_%02d.tif

It is available from http://www.imagemagick.org for Linux, Mac, Windows,
etc.

Andrew Graham
 
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