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I've got a task to print my geni.com family tree. I downloaded all needed data as a GED file and imported into Gramps. Then I generated all tree as a big one PDF as other choices looks not nice.
Then and I came into the problem how to split big pdf file or as other say: tile the pdf.
There is super awesome command line program in Linux ecosystem called Pdfposter[1].
It follows simple Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it right. So, the purpose of the program is to take a pdf file and create printable pdf for needed size. It can do that in two choices: scale and split or give a layout and fit in it.
I have split big.pdf to 4 a1 format pages by simple command:
pdfposter -p 4x1a4 big.pdf out.pdf
🌙2022-08-01
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