Hi, This morning, my girlfriend ask me how she could print her A1 PDF file which was a project plan from MS Project on our A4 printer. I first tried KDE's poster printing functions, but Ghostscript was so slow with this PDF that I did not want to wait for it to finish.
So I tried podofoimpose with the plan file below (I took it straight out from
your documentation!):
<snip>
597.6 842.4
1 1 0 16.56 172.4
1 2 0 -547.92 172.4
1 3 0 -1112.4 172.4
1 4 0 -1676.88 172.4
1 5 0 16.56 -497.6
1 6 0 -547.92 -497.6
1 7 0 -1112.4 -497.6
1 8 0 -1676.88 -497.6
</snap>
But it did not work either and quite with a bad plan file error message. I
uncommented a few lines in the source and it worked. Patch below:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/Programming/podofo/podofo/tools/podofoimpose (4)>
_svn diff
Index: pdftranslator.cpp
===================================================================
--- pdftranslator.cpp (Revision 824)
+++ pdftranslator.cpp (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -344,8 +344,8 @@
PageRecord p;
in >> p;
-// if (in.eof())
-// break;
+ if (in.eof())
+ break;
if (!p.isValid())
throw runtime_error("Bad plan file record");
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/Programming/podofo/podofo/tools/podofoimpose (5)>
Pierre, do you know what caused this error or why I need those to lines that
where commented? I think that testing for EOF should never hurt and we should
commit this patch. But I am sure you had a reason to do so.
After changing this for me, it worked super-fine. Creating the poster took
about 2 seconds compared to Ghostscript which I canceled after 30 minutes.
I had also another idea, what do you think of shipping some predefined plan
files for this poster conversion? a1 -> a4 (portrait and landscape), a2 ->
a4, a3 -> a4, etc. . I think it is quite easy to create this plan files
using any scripting language.
best regards,
Dom
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