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printer tiling

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hi my page sizw is bigger than my a4 printer paper. Can I tile the output from inkscape

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pbhj (pbhj) said : 		#1

Inkscape doesn't do multi-page (yet) so it clearly can't automatically split a drawing across multiple pages.

If you're on windows your best bet is probably to make a PDF and use the Acrobat print dialog (or make a PNG and use a photo editor to print from, Picasa might be good at this).

If you're on linux then the print dialogs don't seem to be so handy, there are definitely other questions about banner printing (one from me!).

I did find a program called rasterbation that's designed to take an image and tile it for papering a wall ... http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ it looks pretty handy but as yet I've not experimented with it.

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#2

Maybe this mini-tutorial shows an alternative solution within Inkscape:

Minitutorial: exporting multiple pages from Inkscape
<http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/minitutorial-exporting-multiple-pages-from-inkscape/>

Here you can download the extension for inkscape:
Ciantic's testing blog: Inkscape slicer
<http://ciantic.blogspot.com/2009/02/inkscape-slicer.html>

I would not recommend it as a regular workflow to print multi-pages with Inkscape, but if it works just for the one design that doesn't fit… ;-) I didn't try it myself though.

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