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>