Poster printing question

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 07 June 2013 22:25:31 Phil did opine:

> On 07/06/13 08:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > I have an .svg file, that by the time I get it big enough to read in
> > inkscape w/o a 50x glass, will be about 2/3rds of a meter tall, and
> > most of 2 meters long.
> > 
> > What 'poster' utility do we have that can break it up into letter
> > sized bits for taping back together once its been printed?
> 
> This something that I've also needed on several occasions over the
> years. If you find an answer Gene then please post it here.

Well, I've managed to get something on paper by doing a convert (from the 
imagemajik suite), telling it I wanted about an 8.25 by 10.4 sized output 
per page.

With the size of the .svg file  being totally up to Graphviz's imagination, 
.svg is a dimensionless format, so I wound up with too much magnification 
and 20 pages of output, when it would have been fine if only expanded 
enough to need 3 pages.

I am told, but haven't played with it yet, that the .svg file can have its 
ViewBox size line near the top of it adjusted by dividing what is there by 
about 2. In my src svg file its:

<svg width="3632pt" height="1704pt"
 viewBox="0.00 0.00 3632.00 1704.00" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

Which in Postscript 'points', eg 72 of them an inch, it's a picture window 
wide & 28" tall piece of paper.  Too big to be 'handy'. 

The other option, since this file was generated by Graphviz, would be to 
tell Graphviz that size shouldn't be in pixels, but in postscript points.
I'll look for a Graphviz profile tomorrow, which would be the ideal place 
to fix the scaling from this application.
So that is the current state.  I have the pasted up printout ready to hang 
on the inside of the workshop door, and will not need another until I add 
or subtract something from the .hal descriptor file that configures my CNC 
lathe.  Depending on how successful I am at repairing a blown motor 
controller, this copy will probably be obsolete no later than Monday 
evening as I am not yet ready to rock and roll for production of hot metal 
chips (aka "swarf" to the machinist) just yet.  However, graphviz's man 
page is no help so it will have to be fine tuned blind.

Cheers, Gene
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