Place Posters (or pictures) in real size?

[cmahnke]

I'm currently planning an exhibition. One requirement to make the job easier would be to be able to add a (digitized) picture as a PDF (or JPEG) to a wall in its's size as indicated within the file (either as PDF page dimensions or in the size resulting in pixel multiplied by dpi / ppi).

Is there a build-in way to archive this?

If not can someone propose a way or give some hints about the feasibility on wring some Groovy script to use parts of the application to generate a obj file (or even a SH3F file) containing the right dimensions and the image as texture?

[hansmex]

If you want to apply a picture to a wall, you can use JPG or PNG. When importing the picture set the height of your texture to the same height as the wall height. This way you won't have a vertical repeat of the image.

If you want to apply a picture to a picture frame (e.g. painting or TV), you should prepare the picture as follows:
- Make the relative dimensions of the image the same as those of the destination object. Example: if your TV screen is 16:9, your image should also be 16:9
- When importing, set height or width to the same value as the destination object to prevent repeating texture.

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[cmahnke]

Thanks, but that seems to be much more overhead, since the necessary Informations are already part of the Image (or PDF) itself...

I would argue that this is at leas a missing feature...

I've created a Python script which solves the problem:
https://github.com/cmahnke/oss-exhibiti ... -models.py

[Daniels118]

Maybe this could be useful:
How to replace the picture of a frame

[cmahnke]

Well, thanks for the hint.

But I want to be able to just import for example a A0 sized poster as a PDF in the right dimensions (just setting hight above the ground). Not more, not less.

The script helps with that by using Blender to create a OBJ file from a given JPEG or PDF with the right dimensions.

This is a real advantage if you want to hang several dozend images or are doing walls completely in Inkscape.