Open Source Software for Print Tiling? 42
tileMe asks: "The US National Park Service's Digital Maps department's website claims the following: 'To print maps larger than your printer's paper size using page tiling, you must have the full retail version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0. The oversize map is divided into tiles or sections, each of which is printed on one page. You can then manually cut and tape these sections together.' I need to do this EXACT thing but can't purchase anything. What Open Source or Freeware software can I use and how do I do this? The only requirements are the software must run on a 300MHz PC with Win9x or Linux."
Re:translation: (Score:2, Informative)
Any, back on-topic - I think there's something called "poster" to specifically do that with postscript files. pdf2ps the file, and work from that. I'm not sure if those utilities keep color, though.
follow-up (Score:1)
What I'm talking about is that the code is so complicated that the group who creates it (based on legislative mandates) disclaims responsibility for the advice they give about it. They can give you an incorrect answer, then penalize you for doing what they say. There are actual conflicts within it, so you can get different answers by chosing different paths through the information. That's not logical. If they had to re-implement it as logical code, even pseudocode, and have the code work, we could then clearly state that it makes sense.
The fact that there is no "one correct answer" means that the system is open to exploitation by whoever has the best lawyers and accountants, and enough money at stake to make it worth spending some of it on lawyers and high-powered accountants. Following the law should not allow any ambiguity. If it's right, it's right, and if it's wrong, it's wrong. I don't want my well-being to be affected by an administrative judge's mood.
Re:follow-up (Score:2)
has to implement in the tax code, regardless of inconsistencies. If
you want to change tax law, pay^H^H^H write to your congresscritter.
To get slightly on-topic, I've written to several people listed on
government websites for posting MS Word documents. Generally they
blame the geeks in their IT Departments! If the IT types can't get
away from proprietary software, don't expect much from the average
gov. official.
winbatch... heh (Score:2)
Re:winbatch... heh (Score:2)
Postscript or the Gimp (Score:2, Interesting)
Try printing the map to Postscript from your browser (Mozilla's print to file does this nicely). Then, use the various postscript utilities out there to chunk it up and print the various pages.
Also, check out the Gimp, it may have something very similar--if you can get the maps to a graphic format like PNG or JPEG.
Re:Just ask Google (Score:2)
Second, PDF files ARE basically postscript. This is WHY you would look at using postscript tools.
Third, by using some pretty standard postscript tools that come with virtually any distro of Linux, such as the pdf2ps or pdftops commands, (different tools, basically the same function) we can Easily handle the task.
Lastly, and this is directed towards a stupid moderator, my original post was a FLAME, not flame BAIT (and an informative flame at that.) The two are QUITE different. One is a properly directed verbal chastizing, the other invites heated response using inflamitory remarks, in escense egging people on, trolling, etc. Get it right next time.
It's in your printer driver (Score:3, Informative)
I'd probably use ghostscript.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I'd probably use ghostscript.. (Score:1)
Re:I'd probably use ghostscript.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I'd probably use ghostscript.. (Score:2)
easy in postscript (Score:5, Informative)
Convert to postscript, then stick something like this in the beginning:
This has worked for me in the past, but I can't remember exactly how to use it. Anyway I'm sure you can find *plenty* of postscript hacks out there.
auto-tiling of postscript files... (Score:5, Interesting)
poster is a program for you (Score:5, Informative)
in debian...
But you can use kprinter or something, what use this program. Or build it yourself.
crown
karma whoring (Score:4, Informative)
Ghostscript, GSview, and RedMon are your friends. (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe you already tried this, but: Try installing GSview for Windows [wisc.edu]. If it can't grok the file, try printing it once the Evil Way but sending it to the RedMon virtual printer driver [wisc.edu] - then you'll have a copy you can actually use.
psnup (Score:4, Informative)
Anyways, psnup should be easily avaible via rpmfind or something, many distributions should also have it around (I'm pretty sure it comes with SuSE at least).
psnup works pretty good for me although it seems to have problems with posters of size A0 or bigger
Re:psnup (Score:2, Informative)
Another program to check out is mpage [www.mesa.nl]. And I had a link... :-)
mpage can also be found via rpmfind [rpmfind.net].
another one (Score:2, Informative)
There's more than one way to do it (Score:3, Interesting)
perl -MPostScript::Poster -e 'print PostScript::Poster->new->posterize(-infile=>"mozi
Re:Why (Score:1)
Another good program (Score:2, Funny)
ImageMagick (Score:1)
NPS Digital Maps (PUT THE LINK IN THE ^%$ ARTICLE) (Score:3, Informative)
Hmm, too easy? (Score:1)
->Fritz
Excel or OpenOffice.org/Calc (Score:2)
Paste the pic in, size it accordingly, adjust your margins/print area, and off you go.
Re:Excel or OpenOffice.org/Calc (Score:2)