Poster Print Grid — True Size Across Multiple Pages
Your printer is A4. Your canvas isn't. Print your gridded reference tiled across several pages with cut and glue marks — assembled, a 2 cm cell measures 2 cm.
How the tiling works
- Set your real target size. Canvas presets from A5 to A0 and common canvas formats, in centimetres or inches.
- Export as poster. The planner splits the image into printer pages with solid cut lines, dashed glue lines and a position footer on every sheet ("Page 3 of 6 — row 1 / col 3").
- Cut, glue, done. Cut along the solid edge, glue each page onto its neighbour's dashed line. The overlap absorbs printer margins, so the assembled sheet stays at true scale.
Made for real-size work
The poster export exists for one job: a reference or grid you can lay on a 50 × 70 canvas or tape to a wall, at the size you'll actually paint. Page counts adapt to your printer paper — A4, A3, Letter, Legal and Tabloid all work — and a 60-page cap keeps mural-size projects honest.
Frequently asked questions
- How accurate is the assembled poster?
- The pages are generated at a fixed physical scale — printed at 100 % (never "Fit to page"), a 2 cm grid cell measures 2 cm on the assembled sheet.
- How many pages will my size need?
- The poster dialog shows the exact page count before you export — it depends on your target size, printer paper and overlap.
- Can I print just the grid, without the photo?
- Yes — hide the image before exporting and the poster carries the grid alone, or use "Transfer to paper" for a faint grid printed directly on your drawing sheet.