so... I'm trying to print some pattern, which seems to come for letter size paper, the thing is... I want to upscale it to maybe 2 times its current size, how could I do and then print to cut that later?I want it to make a plushie, because the current size is pretty small.pic kinda related, but the file I have is another and came in PDF format.
Instead of printing ONE page, split it up and then print each piece separately, enlarging each piece the same amount.
>>1561416What size paper?
>>1561419how can I do that?I mean, I kind of want something like that, but I don't know if it'll come "cut down in 4 pages per original page" which then I'd need to paste or how would it be..Is it some configuration in the printing or something, how is it called if so (so I investigate how to use it).>>1561420maybe the same paper size, unless there's a better option.
>>1561426>how can I do that?>Is it some configuration in the printing Depending upon your pdf reader when you click there is a setting called something like>print scale>scale>resize>enlargewhich you'll want to set to 200% for double, and another one called something like>scaling type>scaling methodthat you'll want to set to I don't know what but might be>tile oversized pages>tile large pages>tile all pagesYou definitely don't want>reduce to margins>fit to marginsThere might be options to print cut marks and to the amount of overlap between sheets.The other thing to try is export as image, then open that image in a graphics program, scale it up, then select and print the bits you want a little at a time so that you don't have cut lines going through the picture, though really having to tape together a bit of paper for sewing a toy isn't much effort.
>>1561434>graphics programany recommendation for this? (if there's some online tutorial for doing this, that also would help)
There are a lot of YouTube tutorials on how to do this. I'd suggest looking there and watching some videos. The sewing and pattern folks online do this all the time so they'd have the experience to help you. Not necessarily 4chan folks. Something to keep in mind is that screen size and printing size are not the same thing...what you see on screen doesn't equal actual printing size.Scale any PDF pattern up or down in size with just a few clicks of the mouse, bigger or smallerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_qRw8yHgAQOR and online site: https://online.rapidresizer.com/start.php?plugin=startA video using that site:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_NlG-F6Ic
>>1561437Photoshop, Coreldraw (can do bitmap or vectors and can import PDFs directly). Illustrator for PDFs and vectors. GIMP is open source and free.Sometimes you need to convert a bitmap (a pixel based image like a jpeg) to a vector (mathematical points and lines between those points) by redrawing it in the vector programs. Photoshop is a bitmap based program. Coreldraw is a vector based program that has bitmap editing capabilities using it's Photopaint program. However, all this is pretty complex and unless you're a graphic designer, there is NO EASY solution so if you don't have those programs or have any knowledge how to use them, then I'd go to YouTube and look up pattern scaling printing videos.Photoshop, Coreldraw, Illustrator and even Adobe Acrobat (not so much the reader, but the editor) take some skills to use. YouTube is the best way to quickly learn them for no cost. In your case, learning them is going to be frustrating when you just want a pattern to be upsized from the PDF. So, finding a video on just that is the easiest solution for you.
>>1561487>>1561489Thank you, I'll check these out, for whatever reason I never thought about using the word "scale up"
>>1561492You're welcome. Good luck. Other words to consider: Enlargement and/or tiling
