Online photo poster enlarger to tiled PDF

[Broacher]

There may be more sites like this out there, but I recently used this on-line service to blow up a shot to a large coloured tile output in PDF format.

For what it's worth:

http://www.blockposters.com/

[Mynock]

I don't get it. Fake large format? Do-it-yourself large format? I only see this being useful for a non-professional who has picture they want bigger, but only has a desktop printer. Ugh.

[Broacher]

Hey, it's not for client use. Just to liven up the office walls. Like the Rasterbator.

Fun, cheap. That's me.

[Tea]

But I would share that with my broke high school students. They would love it.

[urstwile]

Someone here at work has a picture in his cube that's tiled like that. But instead of it being taped together to look like a continuous print, he has each tile in a separate frame, spaced about 1/4 inch apart. It's a pretty neat effect.

[Mynock]

Someone here at work has a picture in his cube that's tiled like that. But instead of it being taped together to look like a continuous print, he has each tile in a separate frame, spaced about 1/4 inch apart. It's a pretty neat effect.Is it spaced out even though it should be close together or is printed to be spaced out. Does that make any sense?

[urstwile]

It's printed to be spaced out.

[Mynock]

Ok that's cooler than printing something cutting it up and then spacing it out.

[Ned]

Illustrator does tiles. :D I've printed vector artwork before in as much as about 16 tiles, to see what it'll look like at full print size.

Also, if you're working with raster art, I believe rasterbator does its printouts in letter-size tiles.

[epot]

pretty cool! that's a lot of ink though?

[budafist]

That's cool with me :) Once went to a student flat that had black and white prints covering entire walls. On closer inspection, they were tiled. Cheap way to cover up walls. Especially if you got a lot of space and some beautiful prints!

[epot]

good point! Now you got me thinking Wall Murals :D