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Shirley, I'm not familiar with Flexi6 or Corel8 but you could do this in a very simple manual way. I would have a 1" overlap between each panel, however that requires that the panels be 50"x98", or you have one very thin panel on the vertical and horizontal side, or you crop the image to a slightly smaller size. First of all I would work in scale so that the full size of your artwork was 19.2" high X 28.8" wide, then I would create 12 rectangles 9.6" wide X 4.8" high. Lay the rectangles over your artwork, overlapping each one by .1" then copy all of this and paste it 12 times. On the first image, select the image and one of the rectangles and create a clipping mask or whatever your software calls it. Repeat this 12 times on the other images selecting a different rectangle each time. When you are done you should end up with the 12 panels of the image. When the panels are printed they would be scaled up 1000% in the RIP to create the correct size final product.
[ January 01, 2014, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: Gary Boros ]
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You can do this in Corel with the Powerclip feature.
Draw your 12 boxes with the desired overlap so they are all arranged to the final 16'x24' layout. Now Group them together. Select your image and then Effects -> Powerclip -> Place Inside Container and select your boxes. You can then ungroup the boxes and you'll be left with 12 individual tiles.
If the image isn't centred in the boxes when you "Place Inside Container", you may have to to go to Tools -> Options -> Edit -> make sure "Auto-center New Powerclip Contents" is checked.
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Shirley, your final sentence is your best bet. Ask the printer if they will "tile" for you.
Is not...import the original graphic into Draw at full size, then create lines at the 4' and 8' points you mentioned, vertically and horizontally.
Then start thinking how to move those lines in 1/4" or 1/2" increments to use the trim tool to chop the original graphic into parts that have the desired overlap.
You'll have to make several duplicates of things.
The process is a lot easier to do than to explain!!!
Heck...Just e-mail me the graphic, tell me the overlap you desire and I can e-mail you back the panels, in Draw 8 format within an hour!!!
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