Print very large PDF or photo

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?
>

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.

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maxx

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"emmexx" <emme-x-x@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message
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> 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?
> >
>
> 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.

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" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:FUi5c.36610
> 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.
>
>
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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"Yet Another Mike" <mike_eve@yahooyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ceg" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:FUi5c.36610
> > 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.
> >
> >
> 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....

Are you sure your current printer driver won't do what you want?

Yet Another Mike wrote:

> 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.

MyAlbum:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/P...APHICS.htm#A503

Poster - LFW v 1.3

http://riverbbs.net/files/output/75.Html

http://riverbbs.net/pub/printer/POSTER13.ZIP

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Yet Another Mike wrote:
> 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?

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