May 31
Tile print large pdfs
I often need to print construction/assembly plans or posters which come in a large pdf file. Acrobat allows to select 'poster mode' when printing so the single PDF is tiled on multiple A4 sheets which can be for example glued together after printing to have 1:1 plan on paper.
It's the last feature that keeps me from uninstalling the acrobat dc :) thank you for the great job you do!
Pending
You may find you are best to retain Acrobat for that task as they write the way PDF is handled in their printer format. To convert a PDF via Poster splitting (N-Up) is called "Decimation" (for a good reason). Look at the stages from SumatraPDF engine (MuPDF). Where the source tiles are kept the same quarters as the source, thus a common complaint when cropping a text page is that quadruple content is found per quarter (thus the file is 4 times larger), this is because the PDF quartiles MUST/Can only be just 1/4 view of 4 copies of the source. Finally they are given larger surrounds thus also eat more paper. I suggest you are best leaving decimation in Adobes hands, SumatraPDF could duplicate split and merge, but complaints will flow.