Comments on: Printing a large poster on multiple small sheets of paper?

Question: Printing a large poster on multiple small sheets of paper?

nixxon — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:23:56 -0800

I need to print a 3x4-foot poster onto multiple sheets of regular sized paper, so that I can assemble the pieces to recreate the full-sized poster on a poster-board. Is there any (preferably free) software that will do this for me? The poster is currently in a powerpoint file, but I could easily transfer it to or recreate it in another program if necessary. The poster contains mostly text and a few color graphs.

By: msamye

msamye — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:29:54 -0800

The Rasterbater has you covered.

By: zippy

zippy — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:30:50 -0800

Rasterbator

By: zippy

zippy — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:31:03 -0800

Jinx!

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:33:34 -0800

I love the Rasterbator. Reminds me that I've been meaning to make one up for my new apartment, thanks!

By: msamye

msamye — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:34:06 -0800

I misspelled it, so one point to zippy.

By: nixxon

nixxon — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:54:22 -0800

Thanks guys. I need to do this without rasterizing the poster, though. The text needs to look sharp and readable up close (it's a poster for an academic research presentation), so I need something that doesn't alter the original beyond chopping it up into page-sized pieces.

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:03:27 -0800

Download the trial of Adobe Acrobat (or use the school's copy) , import your image.

Go to print it, and set options as follows:

Print Range: Current Page

Copies: 1

Page Scaling: Tile all pages

Tile Scale: 450% (this will make an 8x11 sheet around 43 x 55)

And the rest play around with, you'll get the idea.

By: djpyk

djpyk — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:05:41 -0800

Photoshop does this, but it's not free. MS Paint does this as well, but it's a bit less flexible (may need to do some resizing on your part to figure out how to fit it to the right number of pages).

If you have Windows, Paint is free of course.

By: pombe

pombe — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:32:34 -0800

If it's a poster for a research presentation, is there a reason you don't want to get it printed full size? I think it looks much better that way.

By: nixxon

nixxon — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:18:27 -0800

Thanks bigmusic - that did the trick!

By: scruss

scruss — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:59 -0800

create a postscript version of the page, and then use poster.

By: metacort

metacort — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:15:33 -0800

it's not software, but here's a free website that might help:
blockposter.com