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Enda

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Aug 20, 2003, 7:28:58 AM8/20/03
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Hi all,
I would be grateful for help with the following.

I have a poster created as an A1 slide in Powerpoint 2000. I would
like to print this on A4 sheets so that I can patch the A4 sheets
together to create the full size poster.

If this doesn't work, I may need to package the poster in some neutral
format (eg PDF) and send it to a commercial printer for a full size
print. I have tried using Postscript and PDF printer drivers with
scaling. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks,

Enda

Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP

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Aug 20, 2003, 9:53:54 AM8/20/03
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> I have a poster created as an A1 slide in Powerpoint 2000. I would
> like to print this on A4 sheets so that I can patch the A4 sheets
> together to create the full size poster.
>
> If this doesn't work, I may need to package the poster in some neutral
> format (eg PDF) and send it to a commercial printer for a full size
> print. I have tried using Postscript and PDF printer drivers with
> scaling. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

If you have Acrobat 6, you can use it to "tile" a large page-size PDF to
smaller individual printer sheets.

You might also want to look for Peter Lerup's PrintFile (
http://www.lerup.com/printfile/ )
It has some tiling or n-up features; not sure if it'd help in this instance.

Your printer should be able to take a full-page PDF at normal size and use
the Fit to Paper option to enlarge the PDF page to fit the currently
selected page size in the printer driver settings.


Enda

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Aug 21, 2003, 7:12:25 AM8/21/03
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Thanks Steve,
I produced an A1 PDF file from Powerpoint using the free PDF995
virtual printer. In the powerpoint print dialog I turned off scaling.
In the PDF995 properties dialog I set page size to custom and gave the
dimensions of an A1 page.

Thanks for your help.

Enda


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Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP

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Aug 21, 2003, 9:55:55 AM8/21/03
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So it all worked out as expected? If so, great!

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Enda

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Aug 22, 2003, 6:50:23 AM8/22/03
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Sure did. Reported it here for the record. Thanks for your help.

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