printing large schematics

KA4HJH ka4hjh at gte.net
Tue Apr 13 10:28:41 CEST 1999


>On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Bill Layer wrote:
>
>>
>> >Anyone know of a program (shareware, freeware?) that will take a
>> >large graphic (gif, jpg, or otherwise) and print it on multiple regular
>> >sheets of paper to be later taped together to form a large sheet?  Sort of
>> >a hard thing to do a web-search on...  I guess I could do it 'by hand'
>> >with photoshop, but i'm lazy...  Any links?
>>
>> Not as hard as you would think. the printing industry term for this
>> technique is 'tiling' or 'bannering'. Try searching on those.

Most page-processors have this built-in, all you have to do is import the
graphic and print.

>> Also, download.com has a neat utility right now called 'fineprint' which
>> will print multi-page docs on a single sheet. Kinda the opposite I guess...

They're called thumbnails. Page processors and fancier graphic programs can
do that, too.
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"



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