One Image, Several Pages

August 25, 2005 3:42 PM

I'm silkscreening a few posters, and I don't have access to the nice exposure table I usually use, so I'm being forced to print out my designs onto transparency sheets rather than drawing them by hand and oiling the paper.

Here's the question: I've never before had to worry about piecing together sheets to make designs, because large pieces of paper and sharpies are cheap. Large transparency sheets [and large printers] are not. Are there programs that can evenly chop up a large image file into a series of images that can be printed on 8x11.5" paper [or transparencies] and reassembled [as one might do with Rasterbator printouts]? Do any of the major image editing programs do this kind of thing, or have plugins that will help? Since this file is actual size, I don't need to enlarge it [meaning, as I understand it, that the Rasterbator isn't an option], but I'd rather not crop/copy everything by hand unless I have to. This seems like the kind of thing that someone, somewhere must have automated; unfortunately, I have no idea who that someone is.

posted by ubersturm to sports, hobbies, & recreation (2 comments total)

There's some good stuff in this previous thread. I recommended (and still do) Microsoft Publisher.
posted by cillit bang at 3:37 AM on August 26, 2005

Thanks, man! That's just what I needed. I knew the answer had to be somewhere.
posted by ubersturm at 8:31 AM on August 26, 2005