by Michelle Lentz
My husband is involved in several Fantasy Football leagues. His office league likes to “trash talk” in their own creative way. What does this mean? It means a giant poster of my husband in the downtown office window, with a corresponding sign about how he’ll lose those weekend’s games. (It’s worth mentioning that he won.)
I really could care less about football, but I did learn something from this experience (other than that the poster was hilarious): I learned that I can print a poster from my regular old desk printer.
There’s a catch, of course. The poster is divided into several 8.5 x 11 sheets. However, it makes a pretty good poster as long as you don’t need high-quality single sheet. That’s a job for Kinko’s.
PosteRazor is what my husband’s friend used to the create the poster. PosteRazor takes a raster image and the resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. PosteRazor takes all types of images, including BMP, DDS, GIF, ICO, IFF, JBIG, JPEG/JIF, Kodak PhotoCD, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PhotoShop PSD, and more. You can set the size of your resulting poster by percentage, number of sheets, or specific size.
It’s a free tool made from Open Source libraries and is available on Sourceforge.net. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version.
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