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Re: hi res pdf needs posterized

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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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hi res pdf needs posterized gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-04-17 21:00 +0200
  Re: hi res pdf needs posterized Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-17 21:30 +0200
    Re: hi res pdf needs posterized gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-04-17 21:50 +0200
  Re: hi res pdf needs posterized Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2023-04-17 22:20 +0200
    Re: hi res pdf needs posterized Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2023-04-17 22:50 +0200
      Re: hi res pdf needs posterized gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-04-17 23:00 +0200

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