pdfposter

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: