Printing Posters

[stairman]

I used to produce posters of any size in Drawplus using the tiling setting in the Print facility.

I cannot find any such setting in Affinity Design.  

How can I produce posters of any size with a tiling margin of 10mm?

Printing in Affinity does not align at page edges even if I print borderless.

The only way I have found to achieve this is to copy sections of my poster onto individual new single pages that create a tiling margin - a total waste of time.

 Anyone know how to?

 

 

[Leigh]

Welcome to the forums stairman :)

 

Affinity Designer doesn't have an option for tiling but it could come in the future. I would export your poster to PDF and then use Adobe Reader to print your poster. This has options to manage Tile Scale and Overlap.

[Andrea.Leigh]

I know this post is pretty old, but since it was what came up when I was trying to address this same issue, I thought I'd post my solution for the next person to stumble by desperately trying to tile print.

(I'm printing on letter pages (8.5" x 11") with a margin of .2" I wanted some overlap just to be safe.)
I had great success with making my drawing on a page that was 24" x 21" (3x2 letter pages - a .25 margin) and drawing dotted cutting lines at the 8", 16" mark and the 10.5" mark - for reference for easy dividing later. I then grouped my entire drawing, copied it, and created a new document with letter sized artboards. I made and arranged 6 artboards so they were in a 3x2 grid and pasted my entire (large) drawing into each artboard. I dragged the grouped drawing around the artboard so the dashed lines showed up just inside the boundaries according to which 'tile' the drawing was in. Then, you just print from there! or export to a pdf. Whatever you want! 

[firstdefence]

10 hours ago, Andrea.Leigh said:

I know this post is pretty old, but since it was what came up when I was trying to address this same issue, I thought I'd post my solution for the next person to stumble by desperately trying to tile print.

(I'm printing on letter pages (8.5" x 11") with a margin of .2" I wanted some overlap just to be safe.)
I had great success with making my drawing on a page that was 24" x 21" (3x2 letter pages - a .25 margin) and drawing dotted cutting lines at the 8", 16" mark and the 10.5" mark - for reference for easy dividing later. I then grouped my entire drawing, copied it, and created a new document with letter sized artboards. I made and arranged 6 artboards so they were in a 3x2 grid and pasted my entire (large) drawing into each artboard. I dragged the grouped drawing around the artboard so the dashed lines showed up just inside the boundaries according to which 'tile' the drawing was in. Then, you just print from there! or export to a pdf. Whatever you want! 

I bet the world would love to see a video of this  

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

I bet the world would love to see a video of this  

So, have you made one yet?? 

[firstdefence]

Just now, αℓƒяє∂ said:

So, have you made one yet?? 

My fingers are itching, fortunately I'm too busy work  lol!

[A_B_C]

I wonder why one couldn’t just use overlapping slices in Export Persona. Wouldn’t that work?

[Andrea.Leigh]

On 6/26/2018 at 1:20 AM, A_B_C said:

I wonder why one couldn’t just use overlapping slices in Export Persona. Wouldn’t that work?

You'll have to be the judge of that! There are a few to many options there for me!

[Andrea.Leigh]

On 6/26/2018 at 12:51 AM, firstdefence said:

I bet the world would love to see a video of this  

I'm not sure I'm the person to make a video! If you can understand my method you're welcome to all the video-making/tutorial glory there is to be had!

[javeenstra53]

I also need to print a large drawing that will take multiple pages.  Has Affinity made this  possible yet without having to do a lot of work by making your own tiles on separate art boards and then exporting them to some other program and printing.  I just wasted about 2 hours doing just that when it should be a simple step done from the Affinity print command.