Block Posters Alternatives
Block Posters is described as 'Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed' and is an website. There are more than 10 alternatives to Block Posters, not only websites but also apps for Windows, Linux, Mac and SaaS. The best alternative is Rasterbator, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Block Posters are Posteriza, pdfposter, Lucidpress and Posterizer.
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page half-toned pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
Rasterbator vs Block Posters opinions
No watermark and paywall. More configuration options
The program is easily intuitive to use. Anyone can use it to design good looking posters in minutes.
This requires the installation of Python and pyPDF. Out of the gate, the script does not provide for image overlap, however there is a patch that does fix this. The patch requires replacing 5-6 lines in 3 files and adding 2-3 new ones, its very easy.
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Lucidpress is a web-based design and layout application that enables anyone to create beautiful print and digital documents.
Lucidpress vs Block Posters opinions
Lucidpress does not belong in the free category because you have to pay if you want to be able to make block posters.
Posterizer's free online rasterbator allows you to create posters larger than a standard page, using the tiled printing method. It will rasterize any image and output files that can be printed at home and reassemble to the original image.
ProPoster is software for big banner printing, sign printing, poster printing, mural printing, wall photo printing. ProPoster does not require special plotters, it simply prints on standard printers.
This very simple script requires the installation of Python, Python imaging and ImageMagick. Its crying out for a web front end and maybe generalization Perl and PHP versions as well as a front end.
No screenshots yetUse the Poster program to create a Poster from an EPS or PostScript file. This is the grand-daddy of all poster programs and still exists as a Linux package. It was written in by Jos van Eijndhoven in 1995. Pdfposter depends on it. it only works with ps and eps files.
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