Multi-page posters

Here are some tools and methods for creating and printing multi-page posters and banners.

iWork

If you have iWork you can do this with (surprisingly!) Numbers. Go into Print View and draw your text box across the required array of pages. If you require something more elaborate than text, you may need to produce it in another application, export (say to pdf) and then insert the exported file into your Numbers document. You can adjust the overlap by changing the margins in the Sheet tab of the Inspector.

You used to be able to do something similar with Appleworks: Numbers does it much better.

Free apps

PosteRazor – won't accept PDFs as input, but outputs PDFs great. This is the one free one to use if you need a multi-page banner/poster PDF to pass on to someone else for printing. PosteRazor was easy enough to figure out and use.

You can choose the amount of printer margin and overlap between adjacent sheets. If you use an overlap then, after printing, you can just cut the edge of the page approximately in the right place, lay it on top of the next page and tape it together.

Other features include settings in seven different languages. You can also choose either how many sheets of paper you want to use, set the absolute size, or set a percentage enlargement. They even have a link to a short how-to video. The process is easy as they walk you through five steps. The final document is saved for printing as a PDF file because it is the most universal format. That way you can see exactly how it is going to print, (pixilated or not) before actually printing the document.

Credits

Contributed by Jon, Steven, Eric & Marvin on the Mac Ministry List, March 11, 2011

External links

• PosteRazor - Easily create multi-page posters, Mac OS X Hints