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In <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:

>Hello!
>
>I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
>four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
>together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 
>
>I have several programs that do the reverse operation (put two pages
>of text on a single sheet), but they don't seem to be able to do the
>reverse operation; the FAQ did not seem to contain this either.  I
>expect that this may as simple as appending four simple coordinate
>transformation before four copies of the original file, but I am not a
>Postscript expert and before I write a filter to do it myself I thought
>I'd ask if more knowledgeable folks did it before me.

Look for the program 'poster', use archie or xarchie to locate it. If
you can't find it I can mail you the sources (about 10K).

From the source code:

#
#  poster.c  -  a generic PS scaling program
#  This program outputs a PostScript page to a given size,
#  create tiles if necessary. Each tile will be 7.5" by 10" with crop marks.
#

I've made several 'door-posters' using poster.

Succes,
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In article <1993Jan8.082540.22748@cv.ruu.nl>, ger@cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens) writes:
|> In <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
|> 
|> >Hello!
|> >
|> >I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
|> >four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
|> >together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 
|> >
|> >I have several programs that do the reverse operation (put two pages
|> >of text on a single sheet), but they don't seem to be able to do the
|> >reverse operation; the FAQ did not seem to contain this either.  I
|> >expect that this may as simple as appending four simple coordinate
|> >transformation before four copies of the original file, but I am not a
|> >Postscript expert and before I write a filter to do it myself I thought
|> >I'd ask if more knowledgeable folks did it before me.
|> 
|> Look for the program 'poster', use archie or xarchie to locate it. If
|> you can't find it I can mail you the sources (about 10K).
|> 
|> From the source code:
|> 
|> #
|> #  poster.c  -  a generic PS scaling program
|> #  This program outputs a PostScript page to a given size,
|> #  create tiles if necessary. Each tile will be 7.5" by 10" with crop marks.
|> #
|> 
|> I've made several 'door-posters' using poster.
|> 

  If it is that small, post it.  An archie run on "archie -s poster" 
produces a large and confusing output (at least from my machine)

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In article <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
>Hello!
>
>I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
>four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
>together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it? 

I think there is a program in the "Blue Book" by Adobe that
will do this.  I don't remember any of the details, but you
can get the source from the adobe server by sending a mail
message to

	ps-file-server@adobe.com

containing the line 

	send Programs bluebook.shar

Send a message containing the line "help" for more information
on the server.

Hope this helps,
Mark.
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Mark Harrison, mharriso@dsccc.com