Thus spake "darylndrsn": > Ezio, > > I too have faced this problem with large PDF files. The only method > that I have found was also to transform them to jpg or bmp files in > one way or another (print to file, graphics cut-paste). I think the > full-cost Adobe Acrobat program may print poster format but I'm not > ready to spend $300-400 for that monstrosity. > > Once I have the large BMP file I still face the problem of > "posterized" printing. For this I have kept an OLD (4-5yrs) graphics > program that came free with an older scanner I bought. It is called > "iPhoto Plus 4" by "ulead" and will allow printing multi-page > graphics with adjustable page overlap and the like. This is the only > lower-cost graphics program that I have found that does this but it is > otherwise quite limited (PaintshopPro X, which I use mostly, does not). > > I'm not sure where one can find iPhotoPlus 4 nowadays. The Ulead site > has a product called Photo Express which I was told might be the > current rendition of iPhotoPlus 4. They allow a free trial download > and I think it sells for only $29.95. I would encourage you or another > reader to download the trial and report back. > > -Daryl >
Are you guys just trying to split a PDF into sections so you can print it? If I needed to do that, I'd convert the PDF to PostScript and use poster to split it: http://directory.fsf.org/print/postscript/poster.html -- J.
