Re: hi res pdf needs posterized
On 4/17/23 15:07, Dan Ritter wrote:
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-
.
Very very close to what I wanted, Dan, better than I expected in fact.
Thank you a bunch. The help screen says -x and -y is the decimation
value so I told it .8 for both, okular then printed the out.pdf as 2
landscape pages missing about 1/16" at the junction then I gave it a -s
.75, but it must query the printer for exact paper size and I now have 2
identical copies of 2 pages each in glorious color. Very helpful.
Take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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