Maker Print: Size & Poster

Print PDFs, SVGs, photos and templates aiming at their designed size, then check the 100 mm bar with a ruler. Free, no ads, no account, works offline.

Print your designs aiming at the size you designed, and check the result on paper: templates, stencils, sewing and craft patterns, rulers, labels, decals. Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no subscription. The app itself makes no network connections (the privacy-policy link opens your browser).

Pages written at the paper size you chose Maker Print writes every page of its print file at the paper size and sends it to AirPrint with its own page renderer, without scaling (scale 1). PDF pages keep their designed size (it reads page boxes, rotation and unit scale). SVG files get their size from their units; if a file has none, the app asks once which program made it (96, 72 or 90 pixels per inch) and shows the resulting size before you place it. Photos show their resolution live while you type a size.

Check the size on paper Prints carry a 100 mm check bar (the app warns when a job has no room for it). Measure it with a ruler. Printers, drivers and the print dialog can still change the size (in the iOS print dialog, leave Scaling at 100 %), and a screen cannot show true size: only paper proves it. If the bar is off, the Calibrate wizard prints a test sheet, you type what you measured, and Maker Print saves a correction for that printer and paper and applies it to later prints from this iPhone; check the bar again afterwards. It was tested with virtual printers on a simulator; your own printer is the final judge, which is why the bar is there.

Big jobs on small paper Sheets up to 3 metres are split into pages with overlap, registration marks that match on neighbouring pages, page labels with arrows and an assembly map. Blank pages are skipped and you can leave out single pages. Landscape pages are printed turned on portrait paper.

Templates and copies Rulers up to 3 metres long, graph paper, dot grid, lined paper, circle templates and test squares. Add text, rectangles, ellipses and lines. Repeat a design in rows and columns, fill a sheet, add trim marks, mirror it for transfer paper. Set the scale of a photo from a length you know.

Units Millimetres, centimetres and inches, including fractions such as 3 1/16". Type any unit into any size field. English and German.

Export Export a vector PDF at the paper size you chose to print at a copy shop or from a computer (choose Actual size there; other programs and printers may still rescale it, so check the bar).

Good to know

• SVG text, embedded pictures, patterns and filters are not printed, or printed differently; the app lists them before you print. A PDF keeps the most detail.
• PDF comments and form fields are not printed; flatten the PDF first.
• Maker Print keeps at least 3 mm blank at the paper edge.

Not included in this version DXF import, PNG export, label sheet catalogues, barcodes, sequential numbers, custom fonts.