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Breaking up an image to print on multiple sheets?

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  • 03-09-2011 9:49pm
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    _sparkie_
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭


    i made a simple black and white stencil today and i am trying to figure out how to 'break' the image up so that i can print it out onto 4 x A1 sheets. does anyone know hoe to do this? im sure there is some simple setting i just need to change in printer preferences but i cant seem to figure it out.

    thanks!


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    What application are you using? Usually you can do it in the actual printer settings. IE print image x by x pages.

    There is a neat little application called a Rasterbator (no really) which will edit and save a file dot matrix style.


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    _sparkie_
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭_sparkie_


    im kinda working on the fly at the moment until i get PS. so im using 'preview', 'pages' and 'paintbrush' to make some stencils. that program is pretty cool, i will check it out and see if it can help me out.


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    flanree
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭flanree


    _sparkie_ wrote: »
    i made a simple black and white stencil today and i am trying to figure out how to 'break' the image up so that i can print it out onto 4 x A1 sheets. does anyone know hoe to do this? im sure there is some simple setting i just need to change in printer preferences but i cant seem to figure it out.

    thanks!
    do u mean 4 x A4 sheets?


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    _sparkie_
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭_sparkie_


    flanree wrote: »
    do u mean 4 x A4 sheets?

    i was thinking bigger then that, more like 4 x A2 sheets but preview only gives me the option of going up to A3.


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    _sparkie_
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭_sparkie_


    could i just crop the images into 6 smaller parts (with an overlap) and print those out on A3 and then connect them using tape? i think this is the only solution that will work for me with the software (or lack thereof) that i have.


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    Kenny Logins
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    Try Inkscape for designing your stencil, it's free.

    http://inkscape.org


    Also Posterazor will scale up and split the finished artwork to the required size.

    http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/


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    _sparkie_
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭_sparkie_


    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    Try Inkscape for designing your stencil, it's free.

    http://inkscape.org


    Also Posterazor will scale up and split the finished artwork to the required size.

    http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/

    thanks you so much! that is exactly the kind of program i was looking for. i can make the stencils myself, some of them have come out pretty good but now i will be able to scale them up. thanks again.


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