POSTERAZOR(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet posterazor 🎀 it splits an image across multiple pages so you can stick them together into a giant poster 🖼️ the way that's giving art-project main character energy 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

posterazor [ inputfile ]

the inputfile part is optional 🧚 more on that in a sec

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so PosteRazor takes your image and slices it into a multi-page PDF document 📄 once you print everything out, you arrange the sheets and boom, you've got a huge poster of your original image 😭🔥

if you don't pass an inputfile as a command line argument, PosteRazor will literally just ask you for one 🙈 no stress

✨ Current Features ✨

📸 Input image formats

all image formats that FreeImage can read should work as input for PosteRazor 💖 that includes 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, and XPM 🦋 the list is ✨long✨

🌈 Color types

PosteRazor can handle these color types: Monochrome, Grayscale, 4 Bit palette, 8 Bit palette, 24 Bit RGB, and 48 Bit RGB (only via TIFF and PNG) 🫶 it also does 32 Bit CMYK (only via TIFF) 💜

32 Bit RGBA images can be loaded too, but bestie, they get turned into 24 Bit RGB by "merging" them with a white background 🤍 so the transparency is gone, just FYI

📏 Dimension units

people around the world invented SO many dimension units, so PosteRazor supports quite a few: m, mm, cm, inch, ft, and pt(72th inch) 🍓

🖨️ Printer page layout

you can set the page size and orientation of the printer where your poster will be printed, either manually or by picking a predefined format: DIN A4, DIN A3, Legal, Letter, or Tabloid 👑 the size limit for one page is 5 meters (16.4 feet), which is the maximum PDF allows 🙅‍♀️

🎨 Poster size

there are three ways to set the size of your final poster 🧁

• Absolute image size you want a specific poster size, period 🎯
• Size in Pages you want to use whole paper sheets and tell it how many you want to use 📑
• Image Size in percent your input image has a certain size, defined by its number of pixels and dpi (dots per inch), and you want to scale it by a certain factor 📐

the final poster size is theoretically unlimited ✨ let's say it like this: it's less limited than the ink in your printer 🖨️💀 you can also pick how the image is aligned on the total paper, which is super useful if you want to keep the unused paper 🌸

🧩 Image tile overlapping

you can set an overlapping width and height for each image tile over the next one 🫶 this gives you a bigger tolerance when cutting off spare paper borders, and makes pasting way easier 🎀

📄 PDF output

the PDF output is built with maximum image quality and good compression in mind 💅 a source image is embedded once in the PDF and referenced from every tile page 🧚 image color types stay unchanged ✨

compression uses the PDF "FlateDecode filter" (zip) 🗜️ and if your input is a JPEG, it gets embedded straight into the document without recompression 😭 the PDF version is 1.4, so any compatible reader should be able to open the result 📖

🙈 Missing Support 🙈

okay, bestie, these are NOT supported yet 💀

• Cut lines/aids 🪡
• Support of JPEG-CMYK images 🚫
• Support of 16 Bit Grayscale images 🚫
• Embedding an ICC profile into the PDF if there is one embedded in the input image 🚫

✨ AUTHORS ✨

PosteRazor was written by Alessandro Portale <alessandro@casaportale.de> 👑

this manual page was originally written by Simrun Basuita <simrunbasuita@gmail.com> for the Debian project 🌈 and later updated by Marcelo Soares Mota <motasmarcelo@gmail.com> 🫶

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that's the tea, bestie 🍵 posterazor 1.5.1 (last updated 2020-07-11) 💖 go print something iconic 🦋✨