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pdfposter

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together, thus building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but works with PDF instead, since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed, pdfposter was inspired by poster.

Tags printing Utilities
Licenses GPLv3
Operating Systems OS Independent
Implementation Python

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  • Rrelease-mid
  •  20 Apr 2009 22:26
  • Rrelease-after

    Changes: This release adds support for encrypted PDFs.

    • Rrelease-mid
    •  01 Jan 2009 17:47
    • Rrelease-after

    Changes: PDF files are now correctly read in binary mode.

    • Rrelease-mid
    •  21 Aug 2008 17:29
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    Changes: This release allows fractions for the width and height of media- and postersize.

    • Rrelease-mid
    •  20 Aug 2008 13:44
    • Rrelease-after

    Changes: This version fixes a minor bug: in multi-page documents, rotation was wrong for all pages except the first.

    • Rrelease-mid
    •  08 Jun 2008 22:39
    • Rrelease-after

    Changes: In some cases (depending on the input PDF), a TypeError occurred when calculating dimensions. This has been fixed.

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