A colleague of mine asked me the other day how to print a large document properly. It’s a one-page PDF file that requires a 200 inches long paper to print all, like below in full-page view.
To properly print the document, it has to be split across multiple sheets of paper. Luckily, Adobe already has already got this covered. It’s the same process when you need to print a large format document, such as a poster or banner.
Here is how to print it.
Go to Files > Print.
In the Print dialog box, click Poster button in the Page Sizing & Handling section.
From there, apply some of the options described below:
- Tile Scale – to scale the pages smaller or larger as you wish.
- Overlap – to determine the amount each tile overlaps the adjacent tiles. Giving some overlaps will let you put all pages together easier later on.
- Cut marks – to add guide marks to each page to help you trim the overlap.
- Labels – to add the filename and page number on each separate page.
- Tile only large pages – useful when printing a mixed document that has both regular and large pages.
Click the Print button once all set.
The feature is also called Tiling in older versions. If you are still using Adobe PDF 9 or earlier, you may not see this feature available in the Print option.
Is there any way to print only select tiles of a large poster image? This would be really useful when one is assembling a tiled poster and an individual tile gets miscut or marred.
I would agree. Why can’t you print a individual page of a poster. I don’t need the whole 35 pages every time I need to print it. What’s up Adobe?
When I do this it’ll only print one page and not all 9 I need to print
I am trying to print a a1 poster using 9 a3 pages. I have done this before but not for a couple of years and I can only find how to print on 4 pages but I need 9. Can anyone help please?
An alternative easy to use tool to print a large poster on multiple pages is Coragi ImagePrint (https://www.coragi.com/imageprint). Then you don’t need to generate a PDF first. You can use an existing image.