What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???

[pharoah007]

I am trying to print out one of these templates in actual size so I can move it around on my CP and finalize the hole locations.

http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html

I can not seem to get the one I like to print to exact size?  I need all the holes to be 1 1/8th at the very least so I can plan my layout.


any help would be awesome.

Thanks all.

[Nephasth]

These images are produced to scale. If you want to print them, note the PPI. For example, the first linked 300 PPI image is 2808 pixels wide. So to make a scale print, make sure the printer prints it 2808 / 300 = 9.36 inches wide. And if you want to change the spacing in the images by a certain scale, multiply this number by an appropriate percent. So for small buttons, 30mm spacing is an appropriate spacing; 30mm / 36.5mm = 82.2%; .822 * 9.36 = 7.69 inches wide. You need to figure how to place the joystick separately if you do this.

If you still can't get it to work, there's always the measurements from the layouts you can use to duplicate them.

[BadMouth]

Try printing it from a different program.  That friggin windows photo printer helper thing ruins everything  
In vista, I used Paint to print out things that I needed actual size.
Since they've updated paint for Win7, that might be ruined now too.

[pharoah007]

Try printing it from a different program.  That friggin windows photo printer helper thing ruins everything  
In vista, I used Paint to print out things that I needed actual size.
Since they've updated paint for Win7, that might be ruined now too.

I have a comp with 7 and a comp with XP.  I will try printing from them.

Thanks guys,  I will post my results.

[abispac]

when printing in real size, always use paint on any xp,vista o 7 computer, it works all the time, ...

[pharoah007]

Thanks everyone.

I printed the layout in XP via Paint today and it worked perfect.

Thanks again.