----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...69...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Splitting one large image into several small
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Frans Englich wrote:
Hello all,
I have a problem which perhaps isn't strictly related to Inkscape, but perhaps you now the solution for anyway, if it's not possible to solve with Inkscape.
I have large SVG images which at the end will be transfered to wood -- they are lineart blueprint acting as templates which the wood will be cut after. The blueprint are large -- 0.5m x 1.0m -- and it's too expensive for me to let a printing office print them, so I am looking for alternative solutions.
My plan is to apply a grid on the image, chop it into A4 chunks, and play puzzle afterwards. But how do I convert this large SVG image(or converted to any other format) into a "mosaik" of small images, suitable for printing? Manually would take too long and be too error prone.
Anyone has an idea?
You may want to look at ImageMagick; it has some cmdline tools for chopping raster images in different ways that are suitable for automating.
Let us know what you end up doing, this sounds like a nifty technique for getting large printouts on small printers. :-)
This would also be good in offering support for tiling of large images for printing on multiple pieces of paper to make a larger image. This is usually called print tiling. Cool idea to add to our print features.
Here is the RFE, please add any comments: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=967795&gro...
You know, what I really like about adobe illustrator is that the chosen printers printing boundary for the chosen document size is displayed on the canvas, so thus, if you create your work between those boundaries, you know it will print. It would be great to implement this at some point in the future.
I'm filing as an RFE:
I found out how to get the printable area for a printer with a chosen document size: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1043829&gr...
#include <cups/ppd.h>
...
ppd_file_t *ppd; ppd_size_t *size; float width; float length;
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size = ppdPageSize(ppd, "size"); width = ppdPageWidth(ppd, "size"); length = ppdPageLength(ppd, "size");Jon
Jon
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