Editor: The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version. It is an open source, GNU licensed project which is hosted on SourceForge.net.
Features
Input image formats
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
Image types
PosteRazor can handle the following image color types:
Monochrome, Grayscale, 4 Bit palette, 8 Bit palette, 24 Bit RGB, 48 Bit RGB (only via TIFF and PNG), 32 Bit CMYK (only via TIFF)
32 Bit RGBA images can be loaded, but are transformed to 24 Bit RGB by "merging" them with a white background.
Dimension Units
Because people around the world invented so many different dimension units, PosteRazor supports quite a few:
m, mm, cm, inch, ft, pt(72th inch)
Printer page layout
The page size and orientation of the printer where the poster will be printed can be set manually or selected one from the following list of predefined formats:
DIN A4, DIN A3, Legal, Letter, Tabloid
The size limit for one page is 5 meters (16.4 feet), which is the maximum that PDF allows.
Poster size
The size of the final poster can be set one of these three ways:
Absolute image size
You want to have a specific size of your poster.
Size in Pages
You want to use whole paper sheets and specify how many of them of them you want to use.
Image Size in percent
Your input image has a certain size which is defined by the number of pixels and dpi (dots per Inch) and your want to scale the image by a certain factor.
