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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: dashiv on December 28, 2017, 09:02:43 AM

Title: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: dashiv on December 28, 2017, 09:02:43 AM
so I am a prop maker in the making I guess... I have been working on a few projects but really wanted to work on destiny 2's Prometheus lense because it had a wonderful start and is a fairly simple shape. with help from the wonderful bill(punished props) teaching me about the somewhat confusing and yet absolutely amazing free program called inkscape, I followed his guide on template making! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XF5CQ5U0o   

It took me a little but now I have a scaled template that I want which I think is 28 inches in width and 11 inches in height. all i need now to start working on my project is the template itself, but i have to print it out. how do i do that to my set dimensions? i dont have a huge fance printer around me that i can use like they did. i just have a standared old printer. can someone maybe help me figure out how to print my template out on sevral pieses of paper so i can tepe them together? thank you.
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: Moini on December 29, 2017, 04:21:49 PM
At least for Linux, there are programs that split an image for printing as a poster, with proper overlapping. I'd look for one of those.
Ah, the one I used is also available for Windows:
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: brynn on December 30, 2017, 05:03:47 AM
Welcome to the forum!

If that doesn't work, for some reason, I would think you'd have to slice up your image and paste into a few different documents.  It would probably take some trial and error, and some work on the printer settings as well, since most printers  have a preset margin.  And you'd probably want no margin.  But hopefully the kind of program Moini suggested will work.
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: dashiv on January 07, 2018, 06:51:24 PM
Quote from: Moini on December 29, 2017, 04:21:49 PM
At least for Linux, there are programs that split an image for printing as a poster, with proper overlapping. I'd look for one of those.
Ah, the one I used is also available for Windows:
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
sorry it took me so long to get back. just got back from a trip. it looks like an ok idea but when I try and upload/select the file it says it could not be loaded. do I have to convert it to a pdf maybe? if so how do I do that?
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: dashiv on January 07, 2018, 06:53:45 PM
Quote from: brynn on December 30, 2017, 05:03:47 AM
Welcome to the forum!

If that doesn't work, for some reason, I would think you'd have to slice up your image and paste into a few different documents.  It would probably take some trial and error, and some work on the printer settings as well, since most printers  have a preset margin.  And you'd probably want no margin.  But hopefully the kind of program Moini suggested will work.
thank you so much! ill try it, see what I can do. didn't find much before but ill dig a little deeper. :xf2:
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: Moini on January 08, 2018, 06:19:51 AM
As stated on their website:

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All image formats that FreeImage can read should be usable as input for the PosteRazor:

BMP, DDS, Dr. Halo, GIF, ICO, IFF, JBIG, JPEG/JIF, KOALA, LBM, Kodak PhotoCD, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PhotoShop PSD, Sun RAS, TARGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, XPM

Export to PNG!

(http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features&lang=english)
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: dashiv on January 08, 2018, 04:00:24 PM
*sigh I'm such a dummy. anyway I figured it out and got the dimensions pretty close. not perfect but good enough. I hope it will work! thank you sooo much! ill keep you posted! :ur: :yay: :ty1: :hd:
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: Moini on January 09, 2018, 07:24:45 AM
(Currently printing a huge image of a beach... sliced by posterazor. We've got our birthday present (a strandkorb) spending the winter in the living room, and need some adequate atmosphere ;-) )
Title: Re: how do i print a scaled image on sevral sheets of pinter paper?
Post by: dashiv on January 09, 2018, 02:33:30 PM
haha! well good luck with that and again, thank you!