There is a free software tool (GPL, open source) that will allow you to create a poster from any document that can be printed, no matter what application was used to create it.
It installs a new "virtual printer" on your computer. When you print something to the new printer, a preview dialog comes up and gives you the option of printing as normal, or enlarging to create a poster. A poster is printed to multiple pages, there is 1/4 inch of overlap to allow you to align the images (unless your printer can print the entire surface of the page in one direction, for example a inkjet printer with track-feed paper — in that case it doesn’t overlap the edges that are connected by the tractor-feed perforations).
Anolther useful feature is that scalable elements of your document, like text using true type or open type fonts, will be perfectly smooth no matter how much you enlarge (although not, of course, if the text has been applied on top of a bitmap, in that case it just gets stretched the same way the rest of the bitmap does).
Currently the OS supported are Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP .
The main web site, with screen shots to really show you what it can do, is
http://posterprinter.sourceforge.net/ If you want to download it right away, the download page at SourceForge is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17225 6 The fail-safe "Directory" web site is
http://www.geocities.com/poster_printerwrote:
I need to print a 30"x24" Photoshop file on my Epson 2200 printer, which uses 13"x19" paper. I will need to print it on to 4 or more pages. Can I do this in Photoshop. In Illustrator I would select "tile imageable areas" in the print dialoge box, but I can not find this in Illustrator. Does anyone know how to do this?