Commands related to Large format printing

Large format printing

Tiling

--tiling [--tileshorizontal=1] [--tilesvertical=1]
[--sizehorizontal=0.00] [--sizevertical=0.00]
[--overlaphorizontal=0.00] [--overlapvertical=0.00]
[--consthorizontal=ltr] [--constvertical=ttb] [--addconstinfo] [--template=<path to template>]

Purpose

Creates tiles from the input PDF either by number of tiles or by dimension of created tiles.

Parameters

tileshorizontal
Defines the number of tiles horizontally (can not be combined with --sizehorizontal or --sizevertical)
tilesvertical
Defines the number of tiles vertically (can not be combined with --sizehorizontal or --sizevertical)
sizehorizontal
Defines the horizontal size of the tiles (can not be combined with --tileshorizontal or --tilesvertical)
Possible units are: mm|inch|pt
sizevertical
Defines the vertical size of the tiles (can not be combined with --tileshorizontal or --tilesvertical)
Possible units are: mm|inch|pt
overlaphorizontal
Horizontal overlap of the tiles
Possible units are: mm|inch|pt
overlapvertical
Vertical overlap of the tiles
Possible units are: mm|inch|pt
consthorizontal
Type of horizontal construction direction.
Possible: ltr (= Left to right)|rtl (=Right to left)]
constvertical
Type of vertical construction direction.
Possible: ttb (=Top to bottom)|btt (=Bottom to top)
addconstinfo
Add construction information as a separate page.
template
Use custom template for creation (available with pdfToolbox 10.0)

Example

pdfToolbox --tiling --tileshorizontal=5 --tilesvertical=5
--overlaphorizontal=20mm --overlapvertical=20mm --addconstinfo
--consthorizontal=rtl --constvertical=btt <PDF file>