A Virtual Printer That Lets You Print Big Posters With ANY Printer

[poster_printer]

I want to announce a utility program I've published -- free software,
GPL, this is not a commercial advertisement (and I don't ask for
donations either) -- for the creation of posters .

I think it could make it much easier for all kinds of interest groups
to communicate their message.

Basically, you can create a poster from anything you can print to a
single page on your normal printer. The poster can be big -- 5 feet,
or more, on a side, if you want. You can use any application to make
it. You can grab an image from the internet using your web browser,
for example. The result is nearly professional quality. You simply
use clear plastic tape to assemble multiple pages of output into a
poster image.

Currently the OS supported are Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows
Server 2003, and Windows XP .

Please take a look:
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The "Directory" web site is http://www.geocities.com/poster_printer

The main web site, with screen shots to really show you what it can do,
is http://posterprinter.sourceforge.net/

The development web site (this is open source software) is
https://sourceforge.net/projects/posterprinter/

If you want to download it right away, the download page at
SourceForge is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=172256

 

[John Jay Smith]

printers dont print to the edge of the paper...
so you would have to cut the pages too

 

[ceg]

Basically, you can create a poster from anything you can print to a

All the poster programs I've seen cause your picture to become very boxy
pixel-wise after the first size increase. Does your program do the same
thing or does it smooth out the lines so that it actually still looks like a
picture after expansion?

 

[poster_printer]

All the poster programs I've seen cause your picture to become very boxy
pixel-wise after the first size increase. Does your program do the same
thing or does it smooth out the lines so that it actually still looks like a
picture after expansion?

Basically, text in your document should enlarge without any loss of
quality, assuming you are using scalable fonts -- true type fonts or
open type fonts, like "Times New Roman" and others in Windows. So, for
example, if you create a document in MS Word or Wordpad and enlarge it,
you would see absolutely no jagginess in the text at all when you print
it at an enlarged size. You can blow up a single word so large it
would fill and entire wall, and you would see perfectly smooth lines.

However, images will become "boxy" if they are enlarged enough so that
the individual pixels that make them up become noticeable.

One solution with this software is to use images of high enough
resolution.

It can also depend on the output printer you actually use to print the
poster. Some printer drivers will automatically smooth out the pixel
jagginess in images that are printed to them. I think most if not all
of the newer printers being sold for printing good quality image output
will do this (Cannon, HP, etc.).

 

[poster_printer]

Yes, part of "assembling multiple pages of output into a poster image"
involves cutting off some of the edges. The software (optionally)
prints "cutting guides" on the output pages that show you exactly which
edges to cut off and which row and column a given output page belongs
to in the assembled poster.