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Install poster with Homebrew, apt, dnf, zypper

Create large posters out of PostScript pages. Version 1.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-09-13. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install poster.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install poster

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overview

Package summary

Create large posters out of PostScript pages

Commands and aliases

  • poster

history

Project history and usage

Poster is a small Unix command-line program that scales a PostScript page and optionally tiles it across multiple physical sheets.

Project history

Jos T.J. van Eijndhoven created Poster at Eindhoven University of Technology. The source carries a 1999 copyright and describes a later release that broadened paper-size support, made scaling more flexible, and removed earlier white-margin restrictions.

Adoption history

Poster has persisted in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora-family, openSUSE, and Homebrew repositories. Its longevity reflects the usefulness of a small, dependency-light tool in traditional PostScript printing workflows.

How it is used

Users feed Poster a PostScript page, select the desired output media or scale, and print the generated PostScript on one large sheet or across multiple smaller sheets. Defaults such as media size are compile-time settings rather than a documented runtime configuration file.

Why package nerds care

Poster exemplifies classic Unix packaging: a self-contained C program, a manual page, no runtime configuration, and a narrow text-filter-like job. It remains useful for turning one logical PostScript page into a tiled collection printable on ordinary paper.

Timeline

  • 1999: Copyright in the original distribution identifies the early public program.
  • Later release: Added non-European media sizes, more flexible scaling, and fewer margin restrictions.
  • Current packaging era: The compact C implementation remains available in several operating-system package collections.

Related projects

  • Ghostscript and Ghostview are mentioned by the original documentation as tools used to render or preview PostScript output.
  • pdfposter applies a similar tiling idea to PDF input, while Poster operates on PostScript.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 12 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
postercliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-09-19
manager version1.0.0
manager updated2026-09-13
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.0.0

https://github.com/schrfr/poster

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:poster
Version1.0.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/poster
Homepagehttps://schrfr.github.io/poster/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/schrfr/poster
Upstream docshttps://schrfr.github.io/poster/
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/schrfr/poster/archive/refs/tags/1.0.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-09-13T11:54:48Z
Pulseupdated
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameposter
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

poster 1:20050907-4+b1

Create large posters out of PostScript pages

sudo apt install poster
  • Section: text
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: poster
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Poster
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: poster from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Ubuntu apt95%

poster 1:20050907-3

Create large posters out of PostScript pages

sudo apt install poster
  • Section: universe/text
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Poster
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: poster from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

poster 20060221-41.fc45

Scales PostScript images to span multiple pages

http://printing.kde.org/downloads/

sudo dnf install poster
  • License: GPL-2.0-only
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: poster
  • 3 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Poster
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: poster from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/652278618dec9c023176a80c435a32a2c8154869fb0eb662c267a54df28d77d9-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

poster 20060221-93.42

Tool for printing posters over multiple pages

http://printing.kde.org/

sudo zypper install poster
  • License: GPL-2.0+
  • Category: Productivity/Publishing/PS
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: poster
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Poster
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: poster from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d310d5a96106e1e8872a385adf98aaa23be9db5d80937a6717314e7e7f37715065c6c748ab7ccee6475d620b46979c0fe64235fc0c46988e17edf659578fcf31-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • ghostscriptShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, postscript, printing.
  • psutilsShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, page-layout, postscript.
  • papsShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, postscript, printing.
  • paperjamShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, page-layout, printing.
  • pstoeditShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, postscript.
  • epstoolShares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, postscript.

source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation