Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Making Multipage Posters
Message-ID: <4471@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 23:04:46 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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Is there a way to take a PostScript drawing, and enlarge it so instead
of printing on one page, it prints on several?  Obviously, the margin
areas can't be printed, but if you had a way to scale up a PostScript
drawing so that the upper left quadrant went on page 1, upper right
quadrant on page 2, lower left on page 3, lower right on page 4, it
would be possible to build (with a little tape and carefully 
overlapping) a 17" x 22" poster.

I can picture the general mechanism -- use of the translate and
scale operators to enlarge and move the four parts of the described 
page, but I suspect that someone has already done this trick in a 
general way that works with any well-behaved PostScript drawing.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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