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I'm looking for a utility that will take one large sized PDF, and split it into smaller PDFs for banner/poster printing. Looking for a linux or multi-platform solution.

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My goal is to take an Inkscape document and generate a PDF, then print it on a printer that doesn't do banner/poster printing automatically - so if there's a better solution, I'd be happy to hear that as well.

I've found exporting as a PNG both takes a while, and sometimes blends are not preserved. Printing as PDF (Ubuntu print-to-file) seems to work well. I've found utilities that can take large images formats and generate multipage PDFs, but not PDF to PDF.

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Duplicate of superuser.com/questions/38819/… – las3rjock Sep 23 '09 at 20:36
Not a duplicate, that was for XP, and asked for any way, I'm looking for specifically PDF to PDF, which none of the answers in that question (or this) provide AFAIK. – Tim Lytle Sep 23 '09 at 22:32
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Or posterazor?

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PosteRazor works just fine for image file formats (I've used it), but doesn't support PDF as the input. – Tim Lytle Sep 25 '09 at 3:36
For now it looks like Posterazor is the best bet. It won't do PDF to PDF, but as long as the file is postscript or an image file it works. It's what I had been using, and looks like what I'll stick with for now. – Tim Lytle Oct 8 '09 at 14:36
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Poster Printer works with your existing printer to allow you to print documents at a much larger size than would fit on a single printed page

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(open source, Windows)

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Looking for something that runs on Linux (or cross-platform), but the concept of a muti-page PDF printer would work great. – Tim Lytle Sep 25 '09 at 3:35
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This should do it. Rasterbator lets you upload a large picture, splits it up and lets you download the smaller parts.

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Used it before, doesn't it also essentially pixelize (rasterize) it? That's the point of it - right? I don't believe you can give it a high resolution file and get the same resolution out. – Tim Lytle Sep 23 '09 at 20:10
Well then this blockposters.com/default.aspx will probably have the same problem..? – outsideblasts Sep 23 '09 at 20:13
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