![]() There is another way to do poster printing with one additional useful feature: the ability to set the scale for the printed map. See the tutorial at Ogle Earth for step-by-step instructions. Picasa has another geographically-related use: you can Geotag your pictures using Picasa and Google Earth, view them in Google Earth at the tagged location, or export them to a Google Earth KML file. After you click on OK, Picasa will create the image segments and put them into the same folder as the original image you’ll still have to select and print them manually. This will give make trimming the images less critical, since with some overlap you can make a small cutting error and not lose any part of the final map. But Picasa gives you an option the previous two methods don’t: to have the printed image segments overlap each other slightly (by checking the “Overlap tiles” box). And you can only specify the percentage of enlargement for the original, with no preview. You’ll only have the choice of two paper sizes, 4×6 and 8.5×11. Select the image, then choose Create => Make a Poster from the menu: And you can save the settings in a file for future use:įinally, the excellent free image organizer and editor Picasa has the ability to chop up a graphic into segments that can then be printed as individual pages and re-assembled as a poster. This program offers more control than the typical print driver – you can crop the original image, see a preview of how the original picture will be segmented, and add both text and graphics to the poster image as well. There’s a free Windows program called Posteriza that will chop an graphic file like a map into smaller segments, and then print each segment on a single sheet of paper. Here’s an example of that for my Canon iP3000 printer: The program cuts the picture into pieces which may. ![]() First, some printers support poster printing check the Preferences section of your printer driver to find out. PosteRazor is an easy to use program for printing posters which doesnt require professional equipment. This is sometimes referred to as “poster printing”. But there is a way to make printed maps larger than the largest paper size supported by your printer: break the map image up into smaller sections which are printed onto individual pages, trim off the edges, then assemble all the pages together into a larger map. Print services can be expensive as well, with a single large map costing anywhere from $25 to $100 to print. ![]() But even medium-format printers (capable of 13″x19″ paper sizes) are expensive, starting at about $300 large-format printers capable of handling paper in widths of 24″ or greater can easily run over $2000. Printing some maps on a standard 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper doesn’t make a lot of sense the scale can be so small that you might not be able to make out any details at all.
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