Go to official pdfposter website here.
This tool is very simple and good. You can split a PDF document into several to create a poster. See the example bellow:
pdfposter -p 4x4a4 /tmp/drawing.pdf /tmp/out.pdf
input: 1 page, A0, pdf file:
drawing.pdf
output: 16 pages, A4, pdf file:
out.pdf
But there is a problem... printers usually have a printable area, so you need to add a margin to your document in order to don't lose anything when you print it. Here is how I did it for the example above.
First, use pdfposter to create a smaller version (160x247mm, that means 2.5mm of top, bottom, left and right margins).
pdfposter -m160x247mm -pA0 drawing.pdf out.pdf
After that, create a TeX document that will include this pdf, place each page inside a A4 page and include cropping marks. Here is the source code:
\documentclass{article}
% Support for PDF inclusion
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
% Support for PDF scaling
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvips=false,pdftex=false,vtex=false]{geometry}
\geometry{
paperwidth=160mm,
paperheight=247mm,
margin=2.5mm,
top=2.5mm,
bottom=2.5mm,
left=2.5mm,
right=2.5mm,
nohead
}
\usepackage[cam,a4,center,dvips]{crop}
\begin{document}
% Globals: include all pages, don't auto scale
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\thispagestyle{plain}}]{/tmp/out.pdf}
\end{document}
And... voilà! Here is the final pdf. And it page will be like this:
Very useful, thanks for sharing! :)
ResponderExcluirPerfect, exactly what I was looking for. I am wondering why pdfposter doesn't include printing margins in the first place (what's the purpose otherwise?), but this procedure saves this otherwise useless python script.
ResponderExcluirThere is an overlap_option.patch contained in
ResponderExcluirhttps://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=pdfposter&project=devel:languages:python
This patch addresses exactly this issue by adding an overlap margin on the PDF pages. E.g. -O 5 gives an overlap of 5 percent.
The latex solution looks much nicer, but I wanted to have a solution inside pdfposter itself.