Tool for blowing up photos to print on multiple pages? (need answer fast)

Factual Questions
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I want to put a picture onto posterboard tonight, using my printer and tape.

I’m looking for something like the Rasterbator, but I don’t need the function of it dotting everything for me.

Anybody know something online that could do this with a high enough resolution image?

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Never tried this but seems like it will do the trick:

3

Also, Wall art generator - Rasterbator

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You can do it in Photoshop.

Set the dpi and pixel resolution to get the size you need.
for example 3000x4000 at 120 dpi is 25 inches x 33 inches

to get 8.5 x 11 multiply by 120 ---------you get 1020x1320

Set the Marquee Tool to Fixed size 1020x1320

start with the top left corner select with Marquee – ctrl-c.
File, New ctrl-v

Move to the next area and repeat

do the whole picture. I did one in 5 minutes. Then print each window you just created. each will fit one page.

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If you want to be very precise. View, Rulers or ctrl-r

The ruler will tell you exactly what area you selected.

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I’ve done this in Powerpoint as well. Just put the picture in and set the size you want.

Then adjust the image on the slide for the top left of the image. Copy the slide and move the image to the top right, repeat as necessary.

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mspaint will do multipage poster printing.

Go to File/Page Setup. In the bottom right of the dialogue box is scaling. Just plug in x by x pages.

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The last time I tried the Rasterbator, it worked well, in spite of the name.

I’m amazed that Photoshop CS4 will not do this easily. Perhaps it’s in the print settings? Just looked. There’s a “pages per sheet” setting, but we want the opposite. Maybe there’s a plugin?

You can do it in InDesign CS4: Open a new document, Place your image on the page, then select File, Print, then in the Print Settings dialogue box, select Setup, then enable the ‘Tile’ checkbox. Choose a size for your image (1000% will give you 10x the linear dimension), and InDesign will auto tile the pages. I’m not sure whether it does the enlarged dot effect that the Rasterbator does.

Illustrator CS4 does this too, and the settings are easier to find than in InDesign CS4.

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This worked great - thanks!

I like the Rasterbator, I just didn’t want the pixelation.