Rasterbator Alternatives

Lucidpress

Lucidpress is a web-based design and layout application that enables anyone to create beautiful print and digital documents. PERFECT FOR PRINT: We've eliminated the frustration of traditional layout tools -- easily create flyers, brochures, newsletters, magazines, and photobooks. DYNAMIC FOR DIGITAL: Quickly create digital documents for viewing on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Features:

• Cloud sync
• Google Drive integration
• Online Sharing
• Publishing
• Export to PDF
• Web-Based

pdfposter

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. The patch is here: http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/node/39 . Also note this program requires the installation of Python 2.5. If you just have Python 2.4, you will get errors.

Posterizer

Posterizer allows you to print stunning wall art at home - for free. Use the rasterbator to create raster tiles from any image and download printable files that can be reassembled to the original image at poster scale.

Block Posters

Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed. Once you're happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall ...

Easy Poster Printer

Ever wanted to create your own poster? That's exactly what Easy Poster Printer can do for you. You don't even need a special poster printer! - Easy Poster Printer does the job with a regular every day printer. Drag your image into Easy Poster Printer, choose your layout (size, zoom, orientation, resolution etc.) and click print. - Yes, it's that easy with Easy Poster Printer.

Posteriza

The program is easily intuitive to use. Anyone can use it to design good looking posters in minutes. To see the system requirements click here Main features are: No installation required. No weird files on your system Use any Windows printer Use any paper supported by your printer. Any size. (A4, A3, Folio, Letter, etc) Posters can be any size you want.

Mindcad Tiler

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 before printing.

ProPoster

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. Any picture, digital photo, Microsoft Word document, Excel spreadsheet can be used as a source for the multipage poster. Also, it is possible to print a poster from a scanner.

Separation Studio

Separation Studio is powerful, easy to use color separation and artwork generator tool designed exclusively for Mac. Separation Studio is an application that allows you to create single color and cmyk half-tone patterns in vector- based formats. The separations can be based on shapes defined in the application. Separation Studio is a color separation tool with Single Color and CMYK color separation type. You don't need any other software to separate your graphics colors.

Vectoraster

Vectoraster is a graphics utility for creating vector-based raster patterns and halftones based on images or gradients. The raster patterns and point shapes can be freely configured to produce many different styles, with the resulting raster shown in real time as you change the parameters. The rasters can then easily be exported as vectors to EPS or PDF files, as images to JPEG, PNG or TIFF, or simply copied and pasted into most graphics software.

Features:

• Gradients
• Vectorize raster images