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== Printing large graphs ==
If you want to print large graphs (especially with photos and other details) in reasonable readable quality, you the following steps should follow these stepswork:* # In Document Options choose SVG as output format.* # Setup paper format to fit graph into one sheet (SVG cannot handle more than one sheet), so choose A0 or custom size.* # Use [http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape] for opening SVG graph.* # Menu File/Document properties, use "Fit page to selection" function (fix size accordingly to graph size).* # Menu File/Save as, choose PDF format.* You now have a large poster you could print. Inkscape cannot tile PDF for printing large graphs on many A4/A3 sheets, so you must use another software to do it for you. At home, you can print this on multiple A4/A3 sheets with other programs:* In Linux, the poster command line utility can split a poster over A4/A3/Letter. *# Install it via your package manager (or on CLI type for eg Ubuntu: ''sudo apt-get install poster''*# Read the man page, to eg split an A0 poster which is in postscript format, over 16 A4 do: poster -iA0 -mA4 -pA0 posterA0.ps > posterA4.ps * For Linux, Windows and Mac, you can also use the program [http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ PosterRazor], which has an easy to use interface.* For Windows, you can use [http://www.noliturbare.com/pdf-tools/pdf-tiler Govert's PDF Tiler] (can maybe run on Linux too using [http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page Mono], needs .NET 1.1) or [http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ PosteRazor] which is available also for Linux and Mac.
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