Client wants a pano... of his menu. Good or bad idea?

[chester17]

Recently, I got a request to resize a large menu from a local pizza place. Right now, his menu does not fit the mounts on this wall. This mount is 17x34ft and has 5-6 sections.

He wants me to take a panoramic photo of his current menu, touch it up if needed, and then cut it specifically to fit the 5-6 sections for printing.

Do you think a panoramic image would suit this job best?

Do you think using illustrator and starting from scratch would better suit his needs?

What do you guys think? Let me know, please!

[BradfordBenn]

To my read of this question it seems like a flatbed scan of the menu and reprint might be better. Or the other question is does he have the source files available?

[pathfinder]

Sounds like a job for Illustrator to me, if his menu is primarily text. If his menu has images, the photographic copying and rendering may be required.

[astrostu]

I agree with pathfinder -- assuming it's mostly text, I would almost say re-do it in Word. ;) But seriously, I think taking a photo of a mostly text menu is more trouble than it's worth.

Otherwise, yes, probably you would need to do a panorama. And you will almost definitely need to do some warping and skewing in Photoshop in order to make it rectilinear with the same original proportions again (said from experience of photographing large paintings).