A few times a year I need to make a big poster that conveys simple information to people far away and doesn’t need to be printed on a large format printer for $75. I used to use Block Posters. You don’t have to download anything and it’s free. It’s not very customizable though, and it only takes JPG and GIF (I like PNG). A simple Google search away the whole time was Alessandro Portale’s PosteRazor, a free open source little app available for Mac, Windows, and Linux (Ubuntu out of the box, anyway). PosteRazor takes my PNGs and gives me a PDF, letting me customize paper size, orientation, overlap areas, and image placement along the way. It works very well and I recommend it for the next time you’re trying to avoid Kinko’s.
[The image is part of a poster generated by PosteRazor for the feed station, sponsored by Hyde Park Produce, for the UCVC’s upcoming Monsters of the Midway criterium on Saturday May 16th in Hyde Park. Bring a picnic, it’s a lot of fun to watch, before, after, and instead of racing.]