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Open Source Software for Print Tiling?

Posted by Cliff on from the poor-man's-poster-creation dept.

tileMe asks: "The US National Park Service's Digital Maps department's website claims the following: 'To print maps larger than your printer's paper size using page tiling, you must have the full retail version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0. The oversize map is divided into tiles or sections, each of which is printed on one page. You can then manually cut and tape these sections together.' I need to do this EXACT thing but can't purchase anything. What Open Source or Freeware software can I use and how do I do this? The only requirements are the software must run on a 300MHz PC with Win9x or Linux."

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  1. easy in postscript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Convert to postscript, then stick something like this in the beginning:

    /xpost 4 def /ypost 4 def

    userdict begin /bop-hook {
    36 36 translate
    dup xpost ypost mul mod
    dup xpost mod hsize 36 xpost 1 sub mul sub mul neg exch
    xpost idiv vsize 36 ypost 1 sub mul sub mul neg translate
    xpost ypost scale
    -36 -36 translate
    } def end

    This has worked for me in the past, but I can't remember exactly how to use it. Anyway I'm sure you can find *plenty* of postscript hacks out there.

  2. poster is a program for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/poster.ht ml

    in debian...

    But you can use kprinter or something, what use this program. Or build it yourself.

    crown