Kwan
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Post by Kwan on Jun 9, 2008 20:02:36 GMT
I have the PDF book, and am ready to head to Kinkos (or similar) to print the PDF files, but the main posters all have the margins down the middle!
Is there any way to combine the half-posters to one full-sized full-resolution PDF suitable for printing/painting/framing/scribbling on for my 10 year old?
Thanks!
Kwan
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Post by outspaced on Jun 10, 2008 10:44:56 GMT
Hi Kwan
I'm the maintainer of the Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book PDF file. I've been toying with the idea of revising/updating it for some time. If you bear with me, I might have an alternate version available in a day or two. Once it's available, I'll post here.
Hope it helps!
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Post by outspaced on Jun 10, 2008 21:04:42 GMT
Hi Kwan Could you take a look at the new edition of The Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book, please? I think this is the sort of thing you were requesting. The LWPPB page is here, and as described, it is the second link on the page that links to the new "one-page" edition of the book, where each poster appears on a separate page. I hope this is what you're thinking of. (As an aside, if anyone is interested, I could give vent to a rant about how incredibly pathetic both Adobe Acrobat and MS-Word are, since I was unable to output this PDF from Word as Word/Acrobat doesn't seem to allow custom-sized pages. I had to use OpenOffice. Which output the file perfectly. Grr! )
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Kwan
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D4's make great caltrops!
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Post by Kwan on Jun 11, 2008 0:00:53 GMT
Hi Kwan Could you take a look at the new edition of The Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book, please? I think this is the sort of thing you were requesting. The LWPPB page is here, and as described, it is the second link on the page that links to the new "one-page" edition of the book, where each poster appears on a separate page. I hope this is what you're thinking of. That, sir, is beautiful. ;D I had actually started doing the not-so-quick and very dirty job of taking screenshots of the partial PDF's at 100% resolution and pasting them in paint.NET then printing them to a PDF printer. Slow process, but they are at the full resolution of the orig. PDF. If you have the proper tools, I will let you have your go at it - was taking quite a bit of time here. The one request that I would make if this is a work in progress is that there be about an inch or more white space around the individual pictures. (I guess as a margin?) Makes it a little easier to handle larger pictures. But then again, thats just a personal request. ...Not that there is anything wrong with Open Office... (love it myself) ... but there is a decent PDF printer that allows for a boatload of paper sizes. www.pdf995.com/Free, but supported by adware. last time i checked, was pretty non-intrusive. Will install a printer that when printed to, will give you a save-to-PDF dialog box. Again, many many thanks! -Kwan
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Post by outspaced on Jun 11, 2008 15:27:18 GMT
Hi Kwan Glad you liked the updated version! :-) I've left the margins quite small to emulate (as near as possible...) the original book. I don;t think a larger margin would help at all, since the page size for each poster is 31cm x 42cm, which won't print at 100% scale on any home printer I've ever come across. If the images are going to be scaled anyway, there's no real need to make the margins any bigger, IMHO. I did actually use PDF995 some years ago, but I had problems with it. I don't recall what they were, just that there was some. As OpenOffice becomes more robust and better able to load and lay-out Word DOCs correctly, I guess I'll be making more and more use of it for documents such as The Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book with custom-sized pages. Ho-hum.
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Kwan
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Post by Kwan on Jul 24, 2008 17:42:39 GMT
For US-centric users, I have non-scaled PDF images of the posters. Most are 11x17 inches - will print @ a Kinkos for about $.30 apiece. @ that are much higher quality and resolution are "conjuration" and "Nudniks" (sic) that are 22x34 inches. The paired mounted riders are each 11x17 inches - great resolution. All are one-piece, ready to print, in seperate PDF files for people to pick and choose. Would you guys like to take a look at them, maybe consider making them available?
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Post by lycanthus on Jul 24, 2008 18:21:27 GMT
I'd like to see. Just out of curiosity if nothing else.
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Kwan
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Post by Kwan on Jul 24, 2008 18:37:20 GMT
I'd like to see. Just out of curiosity if nothing else. The filename will give the dimentions of the printing. I had to create them for Kinkos ( a print shop ) because they cannot deal with standard paper sizes to save their lives. You tell them it's an A2 and they look at you funny. Temporarily, they will be available on my web server, in a .zip file. Spread the love, don't kill my hosting company. Get it HERE (for now): holmesclan.net/temp/LWPosterBook.zip
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