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One - very clunky - option: 1. Print to jpeg or other raster image or, if not available, print to PDF (CUPS has a PDF printer). 2. Convert from pdf to raster image if necessary (imagemagick?) 3. Use PosterRazor to tile image onto separate sheets. (PosterRazor only accepts raster image as input) Phil On 18/06/15 13:17, George Parker wrote: > For family history I create descendency charts using a Windows > programme called Micrografx Flow Charter which works very well. But it > is windows, runs under wine, dates from about 1998, no longer exists, > has a proprietary file format (.flo) and has limited file format > export options. There are various apps that would do at a pinch, > Inkskape, LibreOffice Draw, Dia, although they are not as easy to use > as a flow charter, but the stopper is the printing. In Micrografx the > chart is formatted as, say, an A3 landscape sheet made of 2 A4 > portrait sheets side by side. The chart is drawn across the 2 A4 > sheets and prints out as 2 A4 sheets which can be then taped together > to give an A3 chart. Simples. Doing this you can print out a chart as > big as you like, say A0, made up of A4 tiles. > > I cannot find a way to do this in any Linux app that I've come > across. Has anybody else come across one? > > George > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq