Best/easiest way to print parts of a large PDF image?

[Bill Stanley]

On 11/04/2012 06:16 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>> I have a circuit diagram as a PDF file and want to print sections of
>> it on A4 sheets of paper.
>>
>> What's the best tool for selection a section of a PDF image and
>> printing it to fill an A4 sheet?
>
> I don't know which is the BEST tool, but I know that you can do it with
> the Adobe reader. Zoom to the wanted part of the diagram and in the
> print menu select "current view".
>
> I think you could also import the PDF file as a picture with Gimp but I
> never tried that.

You can import pdf files into GIMP but I doubt if this is the easiest 
way to do what you want.  If you want to know how, these are the steps 
that I would use.

1.  Import the entire pdf image into GIMP.  (You might be able to import 
just a portion of the image.)

2. Using the rectangle selection tool, select the parts of the image you 
want.

3. Using FILE/Create/Create from the clipboard, create an image of what 
you selected.

4. Print from the newly created image window (FILE/PRINT).

As I mentioned before, this probably is not the easiest way to do it, 
but it is possible to do it using GIMP.

Bill Stanley