[cups.general] tiled printing

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Apr 20 12:25 Helge Blischke wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>
>> Not at present. Feel free to file a feature request, though:
>>
>>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>>
>>> Any way to do tiled printing of a large pdf file (320x1000 mm) to an A4
>>> printer within CUPS ?
>>>
>>> (CUPS 1.2.7 under Suse linux 11.3 - bundled acrobat reader 9,4,1 has NO
>>> tiled printing, and same also for okular and xpdf )
>>>
>
> .. but you can use the utility poster to do that. Download it via
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/printing/poster.tar.bz2
> compile and install it and use it as a preprocessor to printing.
> (of course you may take pains to integrate it as a filter into your cups
> configuration).

poster is available as RPM package for openSUSE.
# zypper --verbose --no-abbrev install poster
should work to install it.

I don't know if poster works for PDFs.
I think poster requires PostScript that follows the
Adobe Document Structuring Conventions.

Regarding the "pains to integrate it as a filter", have a look at
"Adding Additional Filter Stages to the Default CUPS Filter System" in
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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