I got fed up with trying to print tiled plans from gifs or jpegs and I couldn't find anything that would do it for free, so I wrote a little tiling program.
I call the program Tile Print and it is free for personal use.
You load a picture, zoom to a portion where you know a dimension, draw a line with the mouse and enter the size. For example if you know the distance between ribs is 3", then draw a line between 2 ribs and enter 3 inches into the scale box. If you want it to be 200%, enter 6 inches. If you want it to be 50%, enter 1.5 inches etc. Then just click the print button and Tile Print will scale, tile and print the picture.
Tile print supports the follwing formats: Bitmaps (*.bmp;*.dib), GIF Images (*.gif), JPEG Images (*.jpg;*.jpeg), Metafiles (*.wmf;*.emf) and Icons(*.ico;*.cur).
Please keep in mind that I wrote this in a few hours, so don't be surprised if you run into a few bugs.
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Andrew, I downloaded the program and it only took about one second to download and I'm on dialup. nothing happens when I try to open it. I don't think it downloaded. - Lynn
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Bipe Flyer:
The same happened to me, It downloaded in a second, but when I tried to open it nothing happened. I went to the Donatelli site, but I couldn´t find the link. Maybe needs some registration, I don´t know.
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Bipe Flyer, Worked for me! Can I put that link on my site so other people can download it? Most of my stuff is now in PDF format, and sadly, converting files out of PDF takes real Acrobat to do it. Did you write that in VBA? Thats what I like to see, real DIY attitude! Did you try to include .tiff formats into the programs abilities? (I know pdf's are out of the question!) Dave
B/F, i have a ?s about the program...if i scan a copy of a plan from a magazine...will i be able to tile it up to the normal size???or can i tile it to any size i want???
if this is true,i think you have a gold mine here and don't even know it...
I'm going to add a "Tile Print" page on my web site. When that's done I'll send you a link that you can use.
It is written in VB6.
Support for tiff format would require purchasing or licensing an activex control or a dll, so I don't think I'll be adding it. You can open a tiff file in another program and then copy and paste it into Tile Print. Acrobat is a whole other kettle of fish.
List of current bugs/things to be added: Can't change paper size/default printer in NT or XP. Metric units Drag and drop files Mousewheel support
B/F, i have a ?s about the program...if i scan a copy of a plan from a magazine...will i be able to tile it up to the normal size???or can i tile it to any size i want???
Yes, you can take any picture, scanned or otherwise, and scale it to any size you want.
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if this is true,i think you have a gold mine here and don't even know it...
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Thanks Bipe! Yes, scanning an old plan and printing on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, that is a boon! I tried your suggestion, opened a tiff in Imaging, copied the whole thing, pasted into your program, scaled and printed just fine. No luck using that method with a pdf (I just had to try it!).
For some reason I have to print twice, the first time throws one sheet (upper left) 2nd time I get the whole works. Probably a problem specific to my machine or network though. Good Work BipeFlyer, This is something that has been needed for quite some time now. Dave
To get a PDF into Tile Print. Open the PDF file in Acrobat, zoom to 100%, click "Edit" > "Select All" (Ctrl-A), then click "Edit" > "Copy" (Ctrl-C). Open Tile Print and click the paste button or click "Edit" > "Paste" (Ctrl-C).
I added a feature to save files which should come in handy for pasted images. Currently it only supports bitmat (.bmp) files. I will look into adding other formats. You can download the latest version at the same link.
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