Program to chop up large pages

I remember from many years ago that there was a program that enabled, for example, an A2 size drawing to be printed on multiple A3 or A4 pages with alignment marks printed to make sellotaping them together easier and accurate. Can anyone remember what this program was called and is is still available and supported on later ARM chips.
Thanks, Kim.

Poster, ISTR. I even reviewed it back in the day. No idea about compatibility though…

DrawPrint from SineNomine Software may well be what you’re thinking of! Look under Graphics.

Poster, ISTR.

Those were the days – I had a full copy of that! Unfortunately not 32-bit!

You could use banner 2 it works fine all the way up to the Pi 3

I think I have a copy of Poster somewhere. I wonder how deep the 26-bitness goes.

Of course both Poster and Banner are I believe commercial items from firms long gone so not only are updates in the same availability category as rocking horse droppings but sourcing a copy is likely to be similar unless he-who-has-everything has a copy or two.

I think I have a copy of Poster somewhere …

On my 1TB USB HD I have a back-up of my Iyonix HD on which are various earlier back-ups as PackDirs.

On that from 07_Feb_00 I find my Poster folder – was it 5 floppies, I don’t remember exactly! Poster itself, Borders, Borders2, Moulds, Paths and the (pardon the language) FnKeyStrip!

Running it gives:

Error from (unknown): Internal error: undefined instruction at &0000800C

which is where I stop!

Of course both Poster and Banner are I believe commercial items from firms long gone so not only are updates in the same availability category as rocking horse droppings but sourcing a copy is likely to be similar unless he-who-has-everything has a copy or two.

Given that DrawPrint is free and actively developed, whether or not he-who-has-everything might have a copy of an obsolete piece of commercial software for an astronomical price is kind-of moot, no?

:-)

Given that DrawPrint is free and …

A point I failed to highlight: But if Steve P want’s to have a look at Poster, who am I to discourage him!

;-|

But if Steve P want’s to have a look at Poster, who am I to discourage him!

Not that it would make any difference either way – it’s a commercial item and while the authors may not be around they do, obviously, retain the rights.

Not that it would make any difference either way –

A patch?

Error from (unknown): Internal error: undefined instruction at &0000800C

That’s because the first instruction is going to be a BLNV, which was the NOP instruction until the NV condition was deprecated.

John – can you send me a copy of the executable? Don’t need anything else (absolutely not interested, can’t even print from RISC OS!), I ask because there are two possibilities here:

1. It is a BASIC program wrapped up in one of those obfuscating loaders. Once that is unpicked, the application may be able to be salvaged with or without tweaking any inline assembler that might be present.
2. It’s written in C, and life is too short to attempt to fix that as the 26/32 CLib is pretty different in startup and there may be all sorts of other gotchas like unaligned loads and flag bashing weirdness, remember also that it was legal to expect flags to be preserved across function calls too… (Aemulor is your friend?).

My inclination is that it’ll be a C program, but we might be lucky…

It is a BASIC program wrapped up in one of those obfuscating loaders. Once that is unpicked, the application may be able to be salvaged with or without tweaking any inline assembler that might be present.

The classic for those was to run the executable on a working platform (RPC normally) and then rip the BASIC code out of memory. I believe that zappy thing is good for that bit :) But there are utilities that make it easy.

My inclination is that it’ll be a C program,

That era there weren’t that many items in C, BASIC with a wrapper was far more common.

I think my copy is somewhere around the cretaceous layer in the back of the bedroom.
Bit busy on work related stuff¹ and relaxing in down time to even look TBH.

¹ An “explosive” shipping/storage company handle paper records for the Trust and have a bit of a computer systems issue at the moment so inventive means of re-engineering the notes request procedure is a current task.

Okay, it is what I thought. It’s written in C. It isn’t compressed, so function names are visible, as is the stuff near the end that performs the C initialisation.

Without Aemulor and/or sources, give up on this one.