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Think not so much about size to begin with. Think first about what you want to do and the two aspect ratios involved. You want to cut up a 4:5 aspect ration image into tiles that have an 17:22 aspect ratio. Now do the math. Or have Photoshop lay out the guide line for you.
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The tiles must have an 8.5:11 aspect ratio. The thing is the math may not work out nicely to print bordless 8.5" x 11" tiles.
A simple script I posted a few days ago with the action I posted will automate the tiling process.
So it is an Aspect Ratio problem. 5:4 = 1.25 aspect and 11:8.5 is a 1.29 there not the far apart. Your best solution would be to add a little canvas to you image so that it has a US letter aspect ratio. You image would the correct aspect ratio to be tiled for US letter aspect ratio tiles. You image would be 40 cm by 56 cm. That will have a small white 6 cm boarder on the bottom of the image. You could easily trim off the bottom set of image tiles. A 5 x would be 200 cm by 280 cm you would trim 30 cm off the bottom tile so the image tiled would be 200cm by 250cm to haver you imags 4:5 aspect ratio. Five sheets of letter paper would be 42.5" by 55" you would trime some number of bottom inches off.
There would be 25 Print files from layers for the 25 sheets of paper for the 108 cm by 135 cm tiled print
Sizing is by number of sheets of paper printed.
As fas as I kown the may not have been removed. I do no install AI I jane been using Photosho for areunt 28 years and never saw those options in Photoshop but the I nevet used Adobe Print PostScript output. Never has access toe a Postscript device. Using Google I see this though it shows Photoshop when I view the image I see AI, Adobe does remove feature in some releases so there are some compatibility issuse
Exactly - Yes, printing a tiled photoshop image used to be easy. Why would Adobe remove something simple and make it difficult. Put tiling back in Adobe photoshop printing!
By @elirow
As more than one of us has already said in this thread, tiling was not previously a feature in Photoshop, and that means it was never removed because it wasn’t there in the first place. It’s likely that people are thinking of the print tiling feature in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat, and so are thinking Photoshop had it, when it never has.
But, there’s nothing wrong with asking Adobe to add print tiling to Photoshop. Feature requests can be sent in the Ideas section of this community, where people can vote up and discuss them, and Adobe can assign a publicly visible development status if they start working on it. There might already be a print tiling request in there.
@skullrendition wrote:
From what I find online, photoshop used to have options "tile full pages" and "tile imageable areas" in the print settings
I’m interested in seeing one of those online references, because I am not sure those options were ever in Photoshop. Those terms are definitely in the Print dialog box for Adobe Illustrator. However, it would be a nice feature request for Photoshop.
@skullrendition wrote:
Apparently you can only print this way from Acrobat now?
Acrobat is one option. And it’s fast and simple. All you have to do is drag the image and drop it on the Acrobat application icon, and it opens the image. Then you just choose File > Print, click the Poster button, and tiling options appear. You could be printing in seconds (if the correct printer and paper size are already selected).
Another option is Adobe InDesign. It takes a little more time because you have to create a document first. But after that, you simply drop the image on the page, choose File > Print, and click Setup to see the Tile options.
Either way it is really no big deal, and beacuse both have automatic tiling, both are a lot easier and faster than spending the time to set it up manually in Photoshop.
I do not think Photoshop has ever had tiled printing, and I’ve been using Photoshop since the early 1990s. I know people say it used to be there but I’ve never seen it. I even looked for and found some screen shots of older versions of Photoshop going back 30 years, and they do not show any print tiling feature, see the pictures below.
Can anyone show a screen shot of any version of Photoshop that shows tiling options in the Print dialog box?
I’m not opposed to print tiling, I think it would be good to have, I would probably use it at some point. But I don’t see any evidence that Photoshop ever had it before. I believe people are thinking of Illustrator, InDesign, or Acrobat; they’ve all had a print tiling feature for many years. (And it’s because those apps have print tiling that I agree Photoshop should offer it too.)
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