I need to print a 17"x22" drawing, with generous margins, to two 11"17" sheets without scaling down.
I can do a special version in LibreOffice, but I don't want to have to create a special version of each drawing to print it.
MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
This is not ideal, but if you want to stick with Preview you can use its 'Rectangular Selection' tool to select and then copy half the image. Then use
File > New from Clipboard
to create a new pdf, which you can print. Then repeat the process for the other half of the image.
C.
"Page Setup"? Where?
There IS no page setup in the print dialogue.
There isn't any in Preview.
There isn't any in LibreOffice.
There isn't any in the printer prefs.
I can see options to print multiple pages to one sheet, or to scale an image down to fit onto one sheet, or to crop it on all sides, but nothing to print one image to two or more sheets.
Thanks.
My current workeround has involved dupl'ing the LibreOffice file, unlocking all layers, selecting all objects and making them one big group, setting the smaller page size, aligning the big group to the top and left on this first slide, duplicating the resulting slide, and re-aligning the big group to the top and right on the second slide.
In Preview, the Page Setup parameters appear when you select Print.
I haven't use LibreOffice but probably the same.
[EDIT] You may need to click the "Show details" button to see the options.
The free 'Adobe Acrobat Reader':
https://get.adobe.com/reader/?no_ab=1
has an option 'Poster' in its print dialog that seems to do exactly what you want.
C.
Shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure that in Page Setup you have the 11"x17" page size selected.
That doesn't work. It wants me to either scale the image down to fit onto one sheet, or to crop it on all sides, but doesn't let me print the image to two or more sheets.
Hmmm, normally you can disable the 'Scale' option but I guess that isn't possible in Preview.
Any way to print a large pdf drawing to multiple sheets of paper?
