pdfposter is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to pdfposter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Mac and Python apps. The best pdfposter alternative is Marq, which is free. Other great apps like pdfposter are Rasterbator, Block Posters, Plakativ and Posteriza.
Use 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.
