I have an image, about 300x300 pixels large. I want to print as many copies as possible on a single page (I am planning to cut them apart with scissors afterwards).
Is there a way to do this? Is there a way to generate a PDF with copies (without opening something like gimp and manually doing copy-paste work).
You can use ImageMagick's montage tool.
Install the imagemagic tools
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Combine your images. I have created this image, called foo.png as a demonstration:
Run montage, telling it to make 3 rows of 5 images each (-tile 3x5), keeping the original size of the image (-geometry 300x400 and give it the same image 15 times as input:
montage -geometry 300x400 -tile 3x5 foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png
foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png foo.png montage.ps
The result is:
Since that creates a postscript file (the language printers speak), you can print it directly from the command line using tools like lp or enscript. I don't have a printer at the moment so I can't check but this should work
lp montage.ps
or
enscript montage.ps
