poster is not available for Windows but there are some alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Rasterbator, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to poster and seven of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to poster are Plakativ, pdfposter, RonyaSoft Poster Printer and Easy Poster Printer.
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.
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.
Versatile software for creating large banners and posters from pictures, photos, Word, or Excel files without special plotters. Use standard printers for big prints, incorporating scanners for direct output. Features inbuilt scaling, resolution settings, and a preview option.
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.
PosterGenius helps you create effective scientific posters easily, in less than 10 minutes.
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