Title: Page tiling with poster Date: 2007-11-06 18:09 Author: Femke Category: Tools Tags: Command Line, How-to, Printing + Publishing Slug: page-tiling-with-poster Status: published ![](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/correct.jpg) Virginie and Laurence checking the [V/J10](http://www.constantvzw.com) program in real size. **[Poster](http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/poster/poster.txt)** is an excellent tool to print .eps or .ps documents in tiles. You can adjust the final size of the file, the amount of overlap, size of the media you print on, work from a percentage ('enlarge 500%') etc. Install poster through Synaptic package manager (Debian / Ubuntu) or download [here](http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/poster.zip). To print an A2 file on A4 sheets, you need to type this line in your terminal (all in one line): `$ poster -ma4 -ia2 -pa2 -v /home/yourfolder/file.eps > /home/yourfolder/tiles.eps` ![](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/tiles.jpg){.float}Poster will than produce a 9 page .eps document on A4 size with crop marks and cutting marks. Only downside is that the resulting file is very large; in fact 9 times as large as the original file.