There is a feature I desperately miss since the good old days of the Acorn (Anyone remember !Poster ?)… Tiled Printing!

This allowed you to work on drawings larger that your printer’s maximum paper size, commonly A4, and then have the software automatically print the finished design on multiple pages which were then glued together to make one large sheet of paper. It’s great for one-off posters and banners on the cheap.

On each tiled page there were crop marks for cutting and a small grid number which helped you to know which page belonged where on large designs.

There are ways to work around this within Xara involving moving the drawing around the printable area and printing each “tile” separately but it’s a bit of a fiddle which has to be repeated for each copy.

I have no idea if there would be much demand for such a feature but perhaps its food for thought if any open source developers are looking for cool things to add