Re: hi res pdf needs posterized
gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all printing experts;
>
> I have an extremely high res pdf of a 3d printer controller board.
> I need to print it in the same or close, resolution I can see it on screen
> in libreoffice draw. But its equ to 26" wide! So the ideal printout would be
> posterized on 2 sheets of photo paper at about 85% size. But I can't find a
> poster recipe in OO-draw.
>
> What the next best way to handle such a pdf to get an image big enough to
> easily read pin numbers etc ? cut in half down the middle and put on 2 pages
> of foto paper would be ideal. poster reads like it but expects ps or better
> eps src. I found pdfposter but it will not accept letter as a -m BOX
> definition. This image it claim will be rotated to portrait mode, and 2
> 8.5x11 pages high laid landscape would be just right with -s .80 option to
> reduce the height to 2 page tall.
The package mupdf-tools has mutool, which has a poster
subcommand with:
-x: this many horizontal pieces
-y: this many vertical pieces
and -r for resolution, -h and -w for height and width
specifications.
-dsr-
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