On 1/16/2018 12:46 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Susan Bugher" wrote
| Yahbut all three apps have these tasks in common: tell a printer the
| segments of an image file you want it to print, what scale/size you want
| the segments printed at and where you want them to be placed on the
| printed pages. That's all PosteRazor does, The Rasterbator and Posteriza
| add some bells and whiistles (those are optional extras in Posteriza.)
|
I don't have a preference with these. I doubt
I'll ever use any of them. But for people who may
be interested it's worth clarifying the difference.
I didn't try Posteriza.
PosteRazor and RasterBator, despite having equally
annoying names, are very different. I made quick
samples:
www.jsware.net/Files2/RazorRose.jpg (PosteRazor)
www.jsware.net/Files2/RasterRose.jpg (Rasterbator)
As you can see, they do very different jobs. Both
are designed to allow you to print out multiple pages,
line those up, and end up with a giant image. Both
are fairly limitd in that, well, who really wants to
paste together a bunch of printer sheets to make
a picture?
PosteRazor does it by simply enlarging each pixel.
It doesn't seem to resample. Just enlarges each
pixel into a rectangle. So a wall-sized image
might be made of squares 1/4"x 1/4", 1x1 or even
3x3 inches. One might use that to create a 6'x6'
picture of a superhero on the living room wall for
a tragically overindulged child. Or maybe a giant
mural of your favorite vacation retreat.
Rasterbator doesn't do accurate, detailed enlarging.
It does a stylized, quasi-pointilistic rendering. You
can choose the circle size to get different effects.
Where would you use that? Maybe at a retirement
party, to put up a giant, stylized image of the
retiree. Not a giant photo but rather something that
looks more like a painting.
If you want to see what changes those two apps make in the original
image file before storing it in the PDF file grab a copy of PDF Image
Extraction Wizard - a Windows utility that allows you to easily extract
bitmap images from PDF documents and store them as individual image files.
You can get the 750 KB file he
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page36.html#PIEW
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/files2/pdf_image_extraction_wizard_12_setup.zip
Susan
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