Monday, December 26, 2016
How to Split Raster Images to a PDF file in Ubuntu Linux
How to Split Raster Images to a PDF file in Ubuntu Linux
If you Ubuntu Linux and want to print a poster using a raster image but the image that you have will have to be split into several "pieces" before printing (which you can "attach" later of course), then PosteRazor is an extremely simple yet a very useful tool built for that exact purpose.
Its an cross-platform opesource application thus not only in GNU/Linux but you can use it in MS Windows and Mac OSX as well. Once installed youll have to load your image file and then follow its "5-step" process and then itll split your raster image and create a PDF file by using which you can easily print your poster since each page in the PDF contains a "cut" of the original image.
Main features...
*. Its written in the FLTK tool-kit thus uses its own "theming" which doesnt integrate that well under Gnome nor Qt/KDE... but as soon as it gets the job done, who cares!.
*. Once loaded, itll display information such as the raster image resolution, DPI, size and color type.
*. Supports a huge list of raster images such as: BMP, DDS, Dr. Halo, GIF, ICO, IFF, JBIG, JPEG/JIF, KOALA, LBM, Kodak PhotoCD, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PhotoShop PSD, Sun RAS, TARGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, XPM.
*. A five step wizard type process is involved which lets you: Change the PDF pages size (A4, letter, Tabloid, etc), overlap settings, image splitting, etc.
Well, thats about it actually. When done all that, you can save the split raster image into a PDF which can be sent into printing later.
You can install PosteRazor in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 11.10, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command in your Terminal window.
sudo apt-get install posterazor
Thats it. Good luck.
Available link for download
