Poster

Create a poster for the selected page using given paper size or dimensions which may be scaled.
Print large PDFs as poster using available paper size.
The poster for each selected page is packaged into a PDF file in outDir containing an outline view followed by pages representing the poster tiles.
See also the related commands: ndown, cut
Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu poster description inFile outDir [ outFile] [flags]

name	description	required
p(ages)	selected pages	no

name	description	required
description	configuration string	yes
inFile	PDF input file, use `-` to read from stdin	yes
outDir	output directory	yes
outFileName	PDF output file name	no

parameter	description	values
scalefactor	enlarge poster	> 1.0
formsize	Paper to be used. Append L or P to enforce landscape/portrait mode	paper size
dimensions	dimensions in display units	eg. ‘400 200’
margin	margin / glue area in display units	>= 0.0
bgcolor	margin / glue area color value	color
border	draw content region border along set margin	on/off, true/false, t/f

Page format is A2, the printer supports A4.
Generate a poster(A2) via a corresponding 2x2 grid of A4 pages:

$ pdfcpu poster 'f:A4' test.pdf .
cut test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

Page format is A2, the printer supports A4.
Generate a poster(A0) via a corresponding 4x4 grid of A4 pages:

$ pdfcpu poster 'f:A4, scale:2.0' test.pdf .
cut test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

Generate a poster via a corresponding grid with cell size 15x10 cm and provide a glue area of 1 cm:

$ pdfcpu poster 'dim:15 10, margin:1, border:on' test.pdf . -u cm
cut test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

Create poster tile PDFs from a streamed PDF in a container work directory:

$ aws s3 cp s3://acme-print/storefront-poster.pdf - \
   | pdfcpu poster 'form:A4, margin:1, border:on' - /work/poster-tiles -u cm