Map Printing Tips

The following are tips for printing poster size maps to letter size paper. Printer settings are essentially the same for both Mac and Windows.

TILE POSTER MAP TO MULTIPLE 8.5" X 11" PAGES

WINDOWS
Go to File > Print and in the Page Handling > Page Scaling option, select Tile Large Pages. Ensure to set the desired paper size in your printer setup.

MAC
Go to File > Print and in the Copies and Pages section of the Print dialog, select Tile Large Pages in the Page Scaling section. Ensure to set the desired paper size in your printer setup.

When choosing while map format to download, please note that the .pdf files have much better resolution, but are also much larger in file size than the .gif files.