So on yesterdays Ronyasoft Photo Printer which I wanted badly, I went to download page and clicked on the download here button and somehow ended up whith the Photo Designer software.

Is there anyway I can get the full version of Ronyasoft Photo Printer v3.02 now?
leslie UnMoody in CA

Thank you for Ronyasoft Photo Printer v3.02. This complements Ronyasoft Photo Designer V2.02 perfectly.
Ronysoft Photo Designer v2.02 was featured by Give Away of the day on 01/04/2015 (no, not an April Fool joke)

I stopped buying ink two or three years ago. Save my works in a pent drive and go to Staples, Office or whatever and print them for cents. However, I do use the scanner a lot. This stuff of buying ink is a scam. Thank you for today GOTD.

Two free alternatives:
- Rasterbator
- PosteRazor

So why does my downloaded version say, under Help, it is 2.02.07 NOT 3.02??

Is this a 30 day trial version ? The registration page requires the Reg Key to convert to full unlimited version. Please confirm.

Downloaded and installed easily. I had a look at what i could do, but didn't print anything out, to save paper and ink. I like the option to make the poster any size i want and that it automatically adjusts the width or length accordingly. The print options are also nice, with the choice for cutting guide lines or overlap lines. This is a real keeper, even though I might only use it once or twice.

An always free similar software is PosteRazor, available at:
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/

FWIW, please remember that when you're printing something you need enough pixels for the results to look good -- lots of people get confused on this point. As a way to visualize it you might think of it as a collection of those small magnetic balls that you can put together in whatever shapes, in this case rectangles of different heights or thicknesses. You can spread the magnetic balls out on the table & create a larger rectangle that is only the height of one ball, or you can create a much smaller box or cube shape that is many balls in height. When you print something you should be thinking about that box or cube shape -- whatever the size of your print, it should be several pixels deep, referred to as dpi [Dots Per Inch], lpi [Lines Per Inch] etc.

What's really happening is that what you see on the average PC or laptop screen is about 96 dpi in Windows. Photos in your average magazine are 300 dpi -- a nicer magazine that's all about the photos might be printed at 600. The standard for a fax is normally about 150 dpi, while a nice graphical chart for your presentation would likely be over 1000 -- photos are continuous tone, without the nice sharp edges of your graphs, which is why those graphs need the higher dpi.

So, what you need to do in your image editing or graphics app is set the image resolution 1st, to the desired dpi [or ppi or lpi], then look at the size of the resulting image in inches or cm, & adjust things from there. The total number of pixels be the same, but they'll be much closer together so the printed size of your image will shrink -- you can't see the pixels getting closer together [no monitor will show it] so maybe it can help to think of it as the pixels making up the picture getting stacked [as above like a cube]. A complication -- many apps will not save that resolution or dpi in the image file, so you may have to set it each time you open that image whenever the dpi is important.

I took a guess that someone might use RonyaSoft Poster Printer to piece something together that was 24 x 30 inches. I'm not great at math so I created a new image that size at 300 dpi, then went to the re-size dialog in PSP -- the result was an image with a total of 64,800,000 pixels -- by comparison the common screen size 1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600 at 96 dpi. You may feel that your print looks OK at a lower resolution, & that's fine -- I'm just saying 300 dpi is the most common for magazine photos to give you an idea of what you'll want & need.

That high number of pixels is why there's something called vector graphics... Vector graphics are made up of directions detailing what to print, rather than the actual pixels in a raster image [like a photo], so the same graphic can be used on a postage stamp or the side of a bus or even draped as a banner from a tall building or bridge, and the files are actually pretty small. The downside is that while it's possible to create something approaching a photograph, creating & working with vector graphics is more difficult & usually best done with special software like CorelDraw! & Illustrator. Vector graphics clip art OTOH is common, often used with or by publishing apps, Microsoft Word etc., where using them is pretty easy -- just place & drag the borders to size. And type, or more precisely the fonts you use in Windows are vector graphics -- that's why you can size text however you want, but as soon as you rasterize it in say an image editing app, it tends to look nasty if you then re-size it.

Now, you can obviously send off whatever images &/or graphics to be printed by a company like Vistaprint or the local Staples, or you can buy a printer that can print on a larger size of paper [printers that can handle 11 X 17 are not expensive, though larger size capabilities can easily be triple average cost]. Or you can use RonyaSoft Poster Printer [or similar], and maybe come up with some creative ways to make the results look more pro...

You might do something like print on fabric -- you can buy paper backed fabric for printers -- perhaps even tinting the different parts of your image, so each sheet is intentionally a bit different. The idea would be to make the fact that you pieced it together intentional, rather than simply not having or wanting to spend the money to have it printed in one piece. Or maybe you could use RonyaSoft Poster Printer to print on easily available iron-on transfer sheets -- for a higher end look maybe put dye sub ink in a cheap or used printer, & print that type of transfer paper [heated dye sublimation inks vaporize & bond with the material's fibers].

Is this a lifetime license or do you have to be one of the 3 winners?

In the 80's I used the now discontinued PageMaker, a desktop publishing program by Aldus. It was great for creating WYSIWYG text with images as posters and even books. RonyaSoft Poster Printer is limited to images but less expensive than QuarkXPress which is also WYSIWYG publishing and design software. I will try this GAOTD offer for printing instruction that I could pin in a cork board for easy reference.

Download, installation and activation less than 3 minutes.
Preset to the uncluttered Office2007 look in my case, pleases me, though other options are given. Changed to mm setting and loaded an A3 sized picture, previously upscaled.
I was not going to waste paper for a test so settled at duplicating of size.
What I did like was that by being able to tweak the output size to suit the number of sheets, retaining ratios. 2 cm on an extra sheet of paper is silly and does not make for good looking joins anyway.
Thumbs up despite only 32Bit.
Will try to establish the maximum original picture size one can use.

If you need to print a large poster spanning several pages, you would need a printer that can print to the edge of the paper, which most printers cannot manage, unless this program has some trick I am not aware of. Trimming the white space or overlapping pages is a no go for me.

It is a great programme, do not miss it.

Easy Install on Win7 64. Once installed, run the Activate.exe and you're done. Just don't try to add text to your posters. For that you need to buy Poster Designer for 29.95. Nice trick. Well, I guess everyone wants to make a buck, but useless to me without text ability. I'll keep running Bannermania in compatibility mode for free :))

I read the previous comments and was ready for problems, but there weren't any. It installed and registered without any problems. (Win 7 Pro 64)
Just extract/install, then run Activate.
I think this program will be useful for creative projects.
Thanks so much, GAOTD and Ronyasoft!

will it do bumperstickers?

Please could somebody post the Reg Key? I can't find it cry emoticon
I have been battling with registrations and extracting some GOTD for quite some time, so have missed out on a good few. So frustrating. Thanks in advance.

Printers these days can make posters through the individual printer "page setup" settings.

Terrific prog. I also had a problem with activating from the zip file (not working when double clicked). So, I extracted all the files to a new folder on the desktop and THEN, from the new desktop folder, ran the activation exe file. Success.

Just downloaded and resized pictures to be printed at local printers. Would kill my ink budget. So many ideas for wall murals, posters, fits in well with creating my own artwork that can be posted easily. Many thanks.

Installed and registered and worked fine on windows 10> Very easy to use and wonderful for printing large maps when you only have an A4 printer. P.S. remember to set your printer to borderless printing if you can.
Many thanks

Close the program, then run ACTIVATE....when you start the program again it will be activated and registered.

Works great, no issues. seems like a good program to have though never thought about this functionality before lol Now that I have its got me wanting to print posters though.

Hi all did and followed instructions but still wants reg code so not registered and this post will probally be deleted as none of my post get put up and never any help to fix problems. I know its free and GOTD do a great job, but once installed keeps asking for reg code

Installed on Windows 7 Ultimate with no problems.
I printed out 2 photos in A1 format using A4 printer.'
The result was very good.

The app does what the provider says.

Make it portable!

Thanks Ronya and GOTD, I will keep it.