Starship Asterisk*

Well, I see a monad in the moon. It jumps out at you during a gibbous waning moon, and it works in either hemisphere. What changes of course is whether light or dark is "up."

(Update to my previous comment:) The result came back, printed on good but not superb paper, and it worked very well. Good resolution, colors came out well. So that works.

Searching around, the answer is, of course, simple. You use Windows (I use Debian, but have Win7 in a vm) and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Tell it you want to print it out, select .xps as the format so it prints to file, select the larger page size you want (tabloid in my case), say "fit to page"...

Hey Jude- (Sorry. Couldn't resist.) I think if I tried that, I'd just make a mess of it. I've found out I can't even easily resize the pdf up to a larger size. I don't have Adobe Acrobat, and what I do have (gimp...) just chokes on it. (I have a core i7 with 8GB RAM and bags of video memory, so I th...

What I really want is to hang the glorious APOD calendar on my wall, printed in big wall calendar size, in high quality. I've been trying to dig around on the web to see what it would cost me ... and I can't even find anyone who'll do that! FedEx/Kinkos and a couple of other places will print it at ...