Combine photos?

I'm pretty sure aperture can't do this, so looking for suggestions from users regarding alternate workflows. I have a bunch of scanned 3:1 panoramic negatives that i want to print at 4x12. Costco offers 8x12s for very cheap so i want to take two of them and create one 8x12 jpeg, order prints and cut the print myself.
Can aperture do this? Pretty sure it can't, so i'm looking for a way to do this easily, automated would be even better as i have lots and plan on shooting this format regularly. I don't have photoshop and dont want to spend $500 just for this one function. If anyone has any ideas i'd love to hear them.
thanks, tim

I don't have time to test this, but if I did I'd try to print to PDF with paper set to 8x12 (perhaps borderless), landscape, 2 rows 1 column, and minimize all margins and borders.
If you are going to cut individual prints from a larger sheet with more than one on it, I recommend spacing the images apart with a margins. Trying to cut two photo edges with one cut is, ime, a recipe for frustration.
You might be able, starting with something like that, to come up with a working work-around. You'll have to figure out how to get acceptable quality. You'll have to work around the JPG/PDF issue -- best to take PDF out if you can.
Almost any layout program can take two images and position them on a page. Pages certainly can do this. Again, image quality and output file format are the two issues you'll have to deal with.
Sorry for the flimsy answer, but I thought you might be interested in giving it a try. A graphics program is far and away the better solution. Good Luck.

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