Question: i am working on [LFS](http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter04/creatingtoolsdir.html), and getting this error creating symbolic links. i checked this [link](https://askubuntu.com/questions/524606/creating-a-symbolic-link-to-a-directory) but no help, also googled but nothing works. 

```
# ln -sv $LFS/tools /
‘/tools’ -> ‘/mnt/lfs/tools’

```

in root directory, i see a file *tools*, with link symbol on it. double clicking throws an error *"the link cannot be used because its target /mnt/tools does not exist"*

also checked env variable 

```
# echo $LFS
/mnt/lfs

```

any help would be awesome.

thanks

Answer: 
Have you tried the `pdfposter` package? From [the project's website](http://pythonhosted.org/pdftools.pdfposter/): *"Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size."*

I tried a quick example from the man page: `pdfposter -mA3 -pA0 askUbuntu.pdf printer-pages.pdf` with your sample file (which I converted to PDF in Inkscape), and it seems to work : 6 A3 pages that need to be set in a 2×3 grid.
as I couldn't get your file (broken link) I managed with a PDF I had on my computer.
Anyway, this is how I proceeded:

* Launch ***Scribus*** (*1.4.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS*)
* create new A3 2 pages document with options "Double Page" and
"Starting on left page" selected (maybe not the right translation as
I'm working on a French Scribus version).
* create an image frame over the two pages
* import PDF
* set image size fit to frame
* export as PDF
* print it

The result is in the archive you can download here:
<http://www.filedropper.com/2a3tar_1>
(1.4 Mo)

The problem that can occur is related to technical margins desktop printers usually have.

In this case, you could make 2 images frames that overlap like in the *2A3bis.sla* file provided.