Sorry, I'm re-reading your note and not sure PDF Lab will do what you want. You want many PDFs tiled onto one page? PDF Lab allows you to split and join PDFs. Great for combining many PDFs into one file. But not sure if you can paginate.
no jpgs. the plans have to be 1:100 or 1:200 or 1:500. right now my pages are 91x129cm, A3 and A2. if i merge them into one file i need to retain image sizes but arrange them newly on a biger size. to create one huge large format print. jps will not allow that (or only with much ado, and i do not have the time for trials). and i have to arrange them nicely. yanno, construction permit.....
i had the software that would do that http://www.colorgate.com/colorgate.rip/en/ the productionserver is mine. worked perfectly. and costs only an arm and a leg. windows only. the hardware dongle refuses to work with any virtal machine of any flavour. why did switch to mac again? darn.
@rubin: naaah. it will keep the pagesizes, but i need to merge multiple pages into one. think of it as printing on a one meter wide paper roll. one page fits and another page is only 21 cm. a third one might be 60 cm wide. what a waste of paper. i cannot have that. i need to arrange the different pages (one from CAD one from google sketchup etc) nicely onto one big huge page. like stitching a patchwork together.
cool. think i found a way (besides the obvious adobe that won't let me buy a downloadble version). and the winner so far is: pdfPenPro. only tested the demo version yet. but it worked fine. now to buy it. :) thank you all for the help. it is very nice to know you all! group hug? grin.
Glad you found a solution. Let us know how the final process goes. I've not used pdfPenPro but may check it out just to have another tool in the arsenal. Good luck! And hugs back at you. :)
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@denise: no idea, but you possibly could try to do JPGs? and put them together?
3 months, 2 weeks ago by bubu1uk
PDF Lab is nice and free. http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/pleng/pleng.html
3 months, 2 weeks ago by mjohnson
Sorry, I'm re-reading your note and not sure PDF Lab will do what you want. You want many PDFs tiled onto one page? PDF Lab allows you to split and join PDFs. Great for combining many PDFs into one file. But not sure if you can paginate.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by mjohnson
no jpgs. the plans have to be 1:100 or 1:200 or 1:500. right now my pages are 91x129cm, A3 and A2. if i merge them into one file i need to retain image sizes but arrange them newly on a biger size. to create one huge large format print. jps will not allow that (or only with much ado, and i do not have the time for trials). and i have to arrange them nicely. yanno, construction permit.....
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
thanks @mjohnson , i tried pdflabs and it does a lot, just not what i am looking for....
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
Sorry, I think I understand what you want but am not sure of an easy way to do it.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by mjohnson
i had the software that would do that http://www.colorgate.com/colorgate.rip/en/ the productionserver is mine. worked perfectly. and costs only an arm and a leg. windows only. the hardware dongle refuses to work with any virtal machine of any flavour. why did switch to mac again? darn.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
Could you paginate the JPEGs in Scribus and then get Scribus to tile the pages on output?
3 months, 2 weeks ago by mjohnson
@denise: Preview does it. Just open the first PDF and drag the others into the drawer on the right.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by rubin
@rubin: naaah. it will keep the pagesizes, but i need to merge multiple pages into one. think of it as printing on a one meter wide paper roll. one page fits and another page is only 21 cm. a third one might be 60 cm wide. what a waste of paper. i cannot have that. i need to arrange the different pages (one from CAD one from google sketchup etc) nicely onto one big huge page. like stitching a patchwork together.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
@mjohnson: nope. after printing 1 cm has still to be 1 cm. these are construction plans. i must not mess with sizes.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
eps, ps or pdf will do. jpg, paint, tiff vary the size of the output
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
@denise: maybe using Pages?
3 months, 2 weeks ago by rubin
cool. think i found a way (besides the obvious adobe that won't let me buy a downloadble version). and the winner so far is: pdfPenPro. only tested the demo version yet. but it worked fine. now to buy it. :) thank you all for the help. it is very nice to know you all! group hug? grin.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise
Glad you found a solution. Let us know how the final process goes. I've not used pdfPenPro but may check it out just to have another tool in the arsenal. Good luck! And hugs back at you. :)
3 months, 2 weeks ago by mjohnson
@mjohnson: hehe^^ i will post the source files, the bullocksed trial merges and the good final result when finished.
3 months, 2 weeks ago by denise