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On 18/06/15 18:09, Peter Walker wrote:
If you can print to PDF initially then pdfposter should be able to scale the PDF to multiple sheets.Pete On 18/06/15 14:25, Philip Whateley wrote:One - very clunky - option: 1. Print to jpeg or other raster image or, if not available, print to PDF (CUPS has a PDF printer). 2. Convert from pdf to raster image if necessary (imagemagick?) 3. Use PosterRazor to tile image onto separate sheets. (PosterRazor only accepts raster image as input) Phil On 18/06/15 13:17, George Parker wrote:For family history I create descendency charts using a Windows programme called Micrografx Flow Charter which works very well. But it is windows, runs under wine, dates from about 1998, no longer exists, has a proprietary file format (.flo) and has limited file format export options. There are various apps that would do at a pinch, Inkskape, LibreOffice Draw, Dia, although they are not as easy to use as a flow charter, but the stopper is the printing. In Micrografx the chart is formatted as, say, an A3 landscape sheet made of 2 A4 portrait sheets side by side. The chart is drawn across the 2 A4 sheets and prints out as 2 A4 sheets which can be then taped together to give an A3 chart. Simples. Doing this you can print out a chart as big as you like, say A0, made up of A4 tiles. I cannot find a way to do this in any Linux app that I've come across. Has anybody else come across one? George
So, I go to an app that gives a PDF (or Jpeg) output but is hard work to generate a descendency chart and then go to another app to do the printing. Too esoteric for my taste and not really an improvement on what I've got. In fact, if it wasn't for wanting to share what I generate I would happily continue with my current set up. Thanks anyway chaps. Having said that, I do take note that this is the first time I've found a PDF to be useful.
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