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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:
--- Quote from: slagcoin ---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.
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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 :angry:
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:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on February 07, 2012, 08:31:31 pm ---Try printing it from a different program. That friggin windows photo printer helper thing ruins everything :angry:
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.
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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, ...