Hello :-)
I have a problem I can't solve myself...
I want to print a file, available as svg (inkscape) or (inkscape generated) pdf.
this file is 28x75 *cm* (a family tree)
I want to print it on landscape mode, on several consecutive paper pages.
I can't make any of my software understand this. Most only print the center part of the file, kpdf prints all the file, but shrinked to fit the A4 page (portrait).
Any idea?
thanks jdd
Op woensdag 24 september 2014 10:20:18 schreef jdd:
Hello :-)
I have a problem I can't solve myself...
I want to print a file, available as svg (inkscape) or (inkscape generated) pdf.
this file is 28x75 *cm* (a family tree)
I want to print it on landscape mode, on several consecutive paper pages.
I can't make any of my software understand this. Most only print the center part of the file, kpdf prints all the file, but shrinked to fit the A4 page (portrait).
Any idea?
How about having it in okular and zooming to the right size on your screen and take a screen shot with ksnapshot. Then put the next part on your screen and so on. Print each screen shot on a page.
Le 24/09/2014 10:30, Freek de Kruijf a écrit : How about having it in okular and zooming to the right size on your screen and take a screen shot with ksnapshot. Then put the next part on your screen and so on. Print each screen shot on a page. yes, but I may have to do this for each fix of the tree, I seek for an automatic way to print it :-)
thanks
jdd
Dne St 24. září 2014 10:30:28, Freek de Kruijf napsal(a):
Op woensdag 24 september 2014 10:20:18 schreef jdd:
Hello :-)
I have a problem I can't solve myself...
I want to print a file, available as svg (inkscape) or (inkscape generated) pdf.
this file is 28x75 *cm* (a family tree)
I want to print it on landscape mode, on several consecutive paper pages.
I can't make any of my software understand this. Most only print the center part of the file, kpdf prints all the file, but shrinked to fit the A4 page (portrait).
Any idea?
How about having it in okular and zooming to the right size on your screen and take a screen shot with ksnapshot. Then put the next part on your screen and so on. Print each screen shot on a page.
Well, I would like to believe „solutions“ like this are not needed anymore in 2014... :-/ No way to tell to printer to split large page to several A4?
On 24 September 2014 09:37, Vojtěch Zeisek vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org wrote:
Well, I would like to believe „solutions“ like this are not needed anymore in 2014... :-/ No way to tell to printer to split large page to several A4?
In the old days, we used the "poster" commandline tool in the KDE3 print dialog to do this, but that only supports Postscript files. It's still available in the main repo.
There is also pdfposter (http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdfposter) which does the same for PDF's.
For a GUI you can try KPrinter4 (http://software.opensuse.org/package/kprinter4).
PosterRazer also appears to be another option (http://software.opensuse.org/package/PosteRazor).
John.
On 2014-09-24 11:24, John Layt wrote:
On 24 September 2014 09:37, Vojtěch Zeisek vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org wrote:
Well, I would like to believe „solutions“ like this are not needed anymore in 2014... :-/ No way to tell to printer to split large page to several A4?
In the old days, we used the "poster" commandline tool in the KDE3 print dialog to do this, but that only supports Postscript files. It's still available in the main repo.
Last time I needed it, it failed (Error: /limitcheck in -file-GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1)
+++··················· Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 13:24:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. <> To: OS-en opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] Printing posters ···················++-
I then asked on the forum, and got some good answers:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/490220-Printing-posters
There is also pdfposter (http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdfposter) which does the same for PDF's.
Somehow I did not succeed with this one.
For a GUI you can try KPrinter4 (http://software.opensuse.org/package/kprinter4).
Didn't know of it.
PosterRazer also appears to be another option (http://software.opensuse.org/package/PosteRazor).
This one worked good, it is what I finally used.
On 09/24/2014 05:24 AM, John Layt wrote:
On 24 September 2014 09:37, Vojtěch Zeisek vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org wrote:
Well, I would like to believe „solutions“ like this are not needed anymore in 2014... :-/ No way to tell to printer to split large page to several A4?
In the old days, we used the "poster" commandline tool in the KDE3 print dialog to do this, but that only supports Postscript files. It's still available in the main repo.
There is also pdfposter (http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdfposter) which does the same for PDF's.
For a GUI you can try KPrinter4 (http://software.opensuse.org/package/kprinter4).
PosterRazer also appears to be another option (http://software.opensuse.org/package/PosteRazor).
I've used pdfposter to print out a mind-map as 3x3 "letter" pages. The reaction was "oops: need 5x4". Did that too. It fit better :-)
Le 24/09/2014 10:20, jdd a écrit :
this file is 28x75 *cm* (a family tree)
I want to print it on landscape mode, on several consecutive paper pages.
I could do the job, but not easily. May be I will be able to simplify the process later...
For now:
* export the tree from ancestris (svg) * open the svg in inkscape, remove some blank space and unusefull page setup. resize to 28 cm wide (ancestor gives a top down tree not too wide) * export to bitmap. Can only do this as png, do not forget to set a high definition (I used 300ppi), adequate for later printing * use PosteRazor to make mulitpage pdf from the png * use kpdf to print the result on landscape pages
I couldn't make scribus print on several pages, pdfposter halts with error, acroread, ocular display the multipage document cleanly, but do not print it well (uncentered, lack of parts)
thanks for your help jdd
Le 25/09/2014 13:38, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
On 2014-09-25 12:55, jdd wrote:
I couldn't make scribus print on several pages, pdfposter halts with error,
I know, and I said so.
yes, but it could have been a file problem. Apparently mine do not fit neither :-(
And I also said that PosteRazor does work.
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