Need help getting overlap when printing in "TILE" mode.

[mrharris2000@adobeforums.com]

Hi all,

I am a newb to illustrator and need a little help with a printing problem that I'm having...its a little complicated, so please bare with me. Here goes-

Before Illustrator, I uesed Microsoft Publisher to make classroom posters¡KI¡¦m just a kindergarten teacher ;) When I would print out a poster in publisher on a regular, small-format HP960 DeskJet, the jobs would obviously print in TILE format, and than I would paste all the tiles together, which was fine for me. Okay so now I¡¦ve switched over to illustrator, and I am trying to pretty much do the same thing¡Kmake classroom posters. I know how to get llustrator to print out in tile mode but here¡¦s the problem that I¡¦m having-

When printing out a large poster in ¡§tile¡¨ mode in MS Publisher, Publisher prints about an inch overlap all around on each tile so that when you are assembling the tiles together, you have a certain amount of slack with which to match up each tile¡Kyou can overlap a little. This important to me because Im just doing all of this with scissors and Its impossible for me to cut a perfectly, straight line¡Kin need a little room. I can¡¦t seem to make illustrator do this. When printing out a poster in tile mode, Illustrator slices up the tiles with out any slack, or room to spare. I made a graphic to better explain-

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Thanks for any help possible ļ

Mike In Jersey

[LenHewitt@adobeforums.com]

>>Illustrator slices up the tiles with out any slack, or room to spare<<

Yes, and I'm afraid there is nothing you can do to alter that...

[JonZ@adobeforums.com]

Crap, they got to version 11 and still doesn't have any gaping on tiles mode? Wtf adobe...

Any workaround?
thx

[BobHill@adobeforums.com]

Jon,

Yes there is a work around, but not a simple one. With your custom layout sized to the whole image (and printer margins visible, set guides witht he amount of overlap you'd like, then move the Page Tile to correspond to each guide as you manually print each page tile.

Bob