Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:05:00 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splitting A1 size PDF into 4 pages A4 Message-ID: <20161101160500.GA6902@c720-r292778-amd64> In-Reply-To: <99eced5c-dd7d-dd10-3320-c6d0d327e871@citrin.ru> References: <20161101143150.GA4952@c720-r292778-amd64> <99eced5c-dd7d-dd10-3320-c6d0d327e871@citrin.ru>
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Thanks for all hints. I did it at the end with: $ convert poster.pdf poster.ps $ fgrep Bounding poster.ps %%BoundingBox: -0 -0 2398 1701 ... i.e. the image is 2398 x 1701 pixel; and we 'crop' the 4 regions as: $ convert poster.ps -crop 1199x850+0+0 1.png $ convert poster.ps -crop 1199x850+1199+0 2.png $ convert poster.ps -crop 1199x850+0+850 3.png $ convert poster.ps -crop 1199x850+1199+850 4.png and print them with 'lpr -Pps 1.png .....' and glue them together, cutting a bit the wite borders. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045 1990, when the Russians stood in Germany at river Elbe, we have had peace. Today the NATO stands in the Baltic States, in Poland ..., and we have war all over the world.
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