Tiling a printout

I have been using Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 11 recently as part of the process of designing art-works. what I would
like to do now is to print the ‘plan’ out to produce templates for the next stage in the process of producing the work.
The art is larger than the available printers can work with so I need to ’tile’ the templates onto several A3 sheets.
Here lies my problem. Currently I am selecting slighty overlapping sections from the original file, copying to new
files and printing each of these to provide a set of prints that cover the entire area of the original work, but this
is a slow manual process. Have I missed some inherent print option in PS or Ill that will allow me to output the tiled
files automatically? (I know that some CAD programs like TurboCad have this option). Or alternately, can anybody
describe the steps I would need to take in automating the process. One issue is that not all the templates have the
same dimensions – typically range from 300×800 mm up to about 1200×1500 mm.
Thanks,
Mike

Mike wrote:

I have been using Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 11 recently as part of the process of designing art-works. what I would like to do now is to print the ‘plan’ out to produce templates for the next stage in the process of producing the work. The art is larger than the available printers can work with so I need to ’tile’ the templates onto several A3 sheets. Here lies my problem. Currently I am selecting slighty overlapping sections from the original file, copying to new files and printing each of these to provide a set of prints that cover the entire area of the original work, but this is a slow manual process. Have I missed some inherent print option in PS or Ill that will allow me to output the tiled files automatically? (I know that some CAD programs like TurboCad have this option). Or alternately, can anybody describe the steps I would need to take in automating the process. One issue is that not all the templates have the same dimensions – typically range from 300×800 mm up to about 1200×1500 mm.

Thanks,
Mike

Best is to import the art from Illustrator to a lay out program, preferably InDesign. That has the tile option you are looking for. I am sure Quark XPress has the same.

I have been using Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 11 recently as part of the process of designing art-works. what I would
like to do now is to print the ‘plan’ out to produce templates for the next stage in the process of producing the work.
The art is larger than the available printers can work with so I need to ’tile’ the templates onto several A3 sheets.
Here lies my problem. Currently I am selecting slighty overlapping sections from the original file, copying to new
files and printing each of these to provide a set of prints that cover the entire area of the original work, but this
is a slow manual process. Have I missed some inherent print option in PS or Ill that will allow me to output the tiled
files automatically? (I know that some CAD programs like TurboCad have this option). Or alternately, can anybody
describe the steps I would need to take in automating the process. One issue is that not all the templates have the
same dimensions – typically range from 300×800 mm up to about 1200×1500 mm.
Thanks,
Mike

I have been using Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 11 recently as part of the process of designing art-works. what I would
like to do now is to print the ‘plan’ out to produce templates for the next stage in the process of producing the work.
The art is larger than the available printers can work with so I need to ’tile’ the templates onto several A3 sheets.
Here lies my problem. Currently I am selecting slighty overlapping sections from the original file, copying to new
files and printing each of these to provide a set of prints that cover the entire area of the original work, but this
is a slow manual process. Have I missed some inherent print option in PS or Ill that will allow me to output the tiled
files automatically? (I know that some CAD programs like TurboCad have this option). Or alternately, can anybody
describe the steps I would need to take in automating the process. One issue is that not all the templates have the
same dimensions – typically range from 300×800 mm up to about 1200×1500 mm.
Thanks,
Mike

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Mike wrote:

I have been using Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 11 recently as part of the process of designing art-works. what I would
like to do now is to print the ‘plan’ out to produce templates for the next stage in the process of producing the work.
The art is larger than the available printers can work with so I need to ’tile’ the templates onto several A3 sheets.
Here lies my problem. Currently I am selecting slighty overlapping sections from the original file, copying to new
files and printing each of these to provide a set of prints that cover the entire area of the original work, but this
is a slow manual process. Have I missed some inherent print option in PS or Ill that will allow me to output the tiled
files automatically? (I know that some CAD programs like TurboCad have this option). Or alternately, can anybody
describe the steps I would need to take in automating the process. One issue is that not all the templates have the
same dimensions – typically range from 300×800 mm up to about 1200×1500 mm.
Thanks,
Mike

This should get you started.

In Illustrator: Set your artboard the size of the full final image (popup in Document Setup). Select the option, ‘Tile Imageable Areas’. Step and repeat, scale or whatever so your artwork(s) on the artboard to taste. Be sure ‘Show Page Tiling’ is on in the View menu.
The rest follows as usual. Be sure to print +all+ the pages.

– Doug