The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



Rasterbator is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is PosteRazor, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Rasterbator and seven of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Rasterbator are Plakativ, Mindcad Tiler, pdfposter and Vectoraster.
The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.



This software allows one to stretch a PDF document or raster image across multiple pages that can then be printed on a common inkjet or laser printer, cut and glued together into a larger poster.


Print a PDF Page on Multiple Sheets of Paper.
Print a single PDF page using multiple sheets of paper to create large banners and posters. Independently scale and center each page in a PDF document as you add or remove rows and columns. Visually preview results in the workspace.

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.
Vectoraster is a graphics utility for creating vector-based raster patterns and halftones based on images or gradients.




Separation Studio is powerful, easy to use color separation and artwork generator tool designed exclusively for Mac.




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.